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M<ih\ — Anterior wings black; a transverse yellow band near the 

 apex, composed of six spots, of which the first two are small oblong- 

 dashes ou the costa, at about two-thirds its length from the base, the 

 three following irregular, and the sixth, just above the middle of the 

 outer margin, is sagittate; beyond this baud, longitudinal lines are 

 produced to the outer margin, of fine yellow atoms; indentations white. 



Posterior wings black, with a broad greenish-gray band on the disc, 

 partially divided by the black nervules, and very deeply indentate ex- 

 teriorly ; abdominal margin marked with a brick-red spot, containing 

 a violet arc; below the anal sections of the transverse band, some tine 

 blue atoms, forming two nearly obsolete arcs; indentations white; ex- 

 panse 4. inches. 



Body brown; some yellow spots on the prothorax, and the first joint 

 of the palpi. 



Below, the fore wings colored as above, with the addition of another 

 spot to the apical b:ind, the spots of which are also larger. On the 

 hind wings there are three rows of lunules : the first, sub-marginal, 

 contains seven lunes, those on the costal and anal margin being much 

 the largest, the others gradually enlarging towards the costal margin ; 

 the anal contains a violet arc : the second row is composed of six, 

 formed of blue atoms, of which the three nearest the costa are some- 

 times obsolete ; the third of six of the same color as the transverse 

 band above, of which the two central are very large. Indentations 

 not so long as on the upper surface. 



Female. — Basal half of fore wings dark blackish-brown ; exterior 

 half grayish-white, shading into dark brown along the costa and outer 

 margin, and traversed by dark nervules and longitudinal lines, the 

 latter on the apical half only ; wings sinuate, slightly dentate, the in- 

 dentations occupied by semi-lunes, white, becoming fulvous towards the 

 inner angle; extremity of the discoidal cell marked with a large black 

 crescent. 



Hind wings blackish-brown, a central transverse band of pure white, 

 widest in the middle, and tapering towards either margin. Posterior 

 to this, three rows of luuules; the first, large, are formed of blue atoms, 

 of which the two nearest the abdominal margin are the only constant 

 ones, the others being most frequently obsolete ; these are followed by 

 a row of six large blood-red lunes; and those of the third row are situ- 



