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this dull olive brownish, anterior edge suffused with pale yellow, a faint 

 transverse band of pale yellow sprinlding beyond this; containing in 

 middle two ill-defined brilliant metallic violet-blue round spots par- 

 tially edged with blackish suffusion; a series of jet-black dull narrow 

 streaks along posterior parts of veins, abruptly dilated and partly 

 united into an irregular black marginal band, appearing brilliant blue 

 violet in certain lights. Cilia purplish fuscous, basal half brilliant 

 blue violet in certain lights. 



Hindwing rather dark bronze purple, cilia concolorous. 



Female genitalia: Genital segments hardly modified, conical 

 sclerotized, minutely aciculate and with regularly spread rather long 

 bristles. 



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