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area black, somewhat sinuate between veins, extended to base of M', suddenly 

 narrowed from (SM') to abdominal margin, the discal portion of the black area 

 being represented beyond (SM') by an obscure bar which separates an ochraceous, 

 triangular patch from the rest of the abdominal fold ; two blue snbmarginal dots 

 M^— SM^ ; admarginal interspaces M^— SM^ mostly fused to a rather thin yellowish 

 or bluish olive buff line, the other admarginal interspaces not marked, or interspaces 

 C— R' represented by thin, ochraceous or tawny, lunules. 



Underside deep ferruginous, changing into ochraceous towards abdominal angle 

 of hindwing and into ferruginous orange on forewing at outer margin and posteriorly 



on disc ; white lines and bands silvery white, glossy, bars black. Forewing : 



cell-bars inclusive white borders wider than interspaces, black bar 4 about 2f mm. 

 broad at widest point ; submedian and median bars M' — SM- merged together to 

 a large patch, bars M' — M- also confluent, but generally divided in front by a 

 white line, median bar R' — M' 17 mm. from base of cell, mnch more distal than 

 bar M' — M", median bar R- — R^ fused with bar D, but in most examples there is 

 a white spot behind R* which partly isolates bar R- — R^, bars SC^ — R'^ less heavy, 

 upper one a mere dot, white borders forming a band which is as wide as the 

 ferruginous interspace at its proximal side, that band at right angles to costa as 

 in pkraortes, hence much less directed apicad than in dntceainis, joined at R' to 

 white discal band, which is from SC* to R^ little wider than postdiscal ferruginous 

 band, includes between R^ and SIP a series of more or less conspicuous ferruginous 

 spots or lines or patches which partly or totally separate the white distal borders 

 of the median bars from the discal band, and is distally sinuate upon veins ; discal 

 black bars SC^ — R' present ; postdiscal bars SC^ — R^ more or less transverse, bar 

 R' — R- generally rounded, bars R^ — SM- larger, straight proximally, rounded 

 distally, bars M'^— SM- nearly completely fused together, but division obvious, 

 bars SC^ — M'^ each with a sharply defined silvery white patch at outside ; patches 

 R'— M- halfmoon-shaped, jiatches SO* — R' larger than the others, tlie up])ermost 

 elongate ovate, these patches represented between M- and SM'- by bluish white, 

 less sharply defined, spots ; veins black at extremities, this scaling extended basad 

 to postdiscal black bars, at least at veins M' — SM^, within this black scaling stands 

 upon each vein a conspicuous, silvery white, dash or elongate ovate spot, veins 



(SM') and SM-' excepted. Hindwing : costal submedian and upper two or three 



median black bars absent ; basal costal bar inclusive white border more or less 

 ovate, the white border often extended to PC and base of C ; white borders of 

 upper two submedian bars, cell-bar 2, and subbasal bar M — (SM') fused to a 

 band which stops at (SM'), the ferruginous subbasal interspace continnoas with 

 the ferruginous line near basal abdominal margin and joined along (SM') to the 

 ferruginous mediano-submedian interspace which itself stands in connection with 

 the disco-postdiscal ferruginous interspace, being continued along (SM') ; white 

 costal median spot either isolated, or joined to the white submedian band ; a broad 

 white band occupies the middle of the wing, this band is convex proximally, 

 slightly biconcave distally, narrowed almost into a jwint at (SM'), broadest 

 between R- and R", about 9 mm., it consists of the white borders of the median 

 and discal bars plus the interspaces between these bars which are also white, only 

 the costal discal interspace being mostly ferruginous, and being joined across C 

 to the ferruginous mediano-submedian ferruginous band ; the white band includes 

 cell-bar 4, submedian bar M' — M' close to base of M- and submedian bar M" — (SM'), 

 further median bars — R', which are small and sometimes absent, median bar 



