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B. Hindwing on underside with the base reddish or yellow 

 or with yellow patch on inner area. 



a. Hindwing with the costa dilated into an antemedial 



lobe aqnila. 



b. Hindwing with the costa normal. 



a\ Forewing with band from middle of costa totornus. hemichroma. 

 b 1 . Forewing without band from middle of costa to 

 tornus. 

 a 2 . Head and thorax with two broad grey stripes 



on the olive-black ground colour mitchelli. 



b . Head and thorax without two broad grey stripes. 

 a 3 . Forewing the basal area black or greenish black 

 sharply defined by the straight antemedial 

 band. 



a 4 . Abdomen brown below faro. 



b* . Abdomen tawny below passalus. 



b 3 . Forewing with the basal area much paler than 

 the antemedial band. 

 a 4 . Hindwing with very narrow tawny brown 



border stellatarum. 



J 4 . Hindwing with more or less broad tawny or 

 black border or almost entirely black. 

 a 5 . Hindwing tawny without yellow band or 

 with a yellow band defined on outer 

 side towards costa. 

 a 6 . Hindwing tawny. 



a 1 ' Forewing with the antemedial band 



filled in with black regulus. 



b 1 . Forewing with the antemedial band 



not filled in with black gyrans. 



b 6 . Hindwing with tawny yellow band. 

 a 1 . Forewing with sharply defined grey 

 medial costa area ; antemedial 



band very oblique particohr. 



b~. Forewing without grey medial costal 

 area. 

 a 8 . Abdomen with the lateral yellow 

 patches separate. 

 a 9 . Forewing with the brown post- 

 medial spot very prominent... assimilis, 

 b 9 . Forewing with the brown post- 

 medial spot not prominent ... belis. 

 b*. Abdomen with the yellow lateral 



patches confluent affietitia. 



