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black spots ; a similar black spot also visible at the end of the cell. Secondaries 

 white, with the usual orange costal streak, and a similar streak along the sub-median 

 nervure, also above the black discoidal spot at the end of the cell ; the nervules 

 terminating in black spots on the hind margin but varying in size ; a faint indi- 

 cation of a transverse band crossing the discal area, consisting of large black spots, 

 one at the end of the costal nervure, the second on the sub-median nervure, three 

 minute spots being situated between the first radial and the first, second and third 

 median nervules. Expanse 2-4 inches. {Spec, ex Nijasa Land; H. H. Johiston ; Mus. 

 Brit) 



Female. — (Fig. la). Primaries white, shaded with grey near the base, the 

 purple of the apical area not forming a large patch as in the male, but broken up into 

 spots and separated by the interposition of a well marked sub-apical band of black, 

 which extends down to the first median nervule. Two distinct black spots are indi- 

 cated on the white portion of the wing, one discoidal, and the other nearer the anal 

 angle, above the sub- median nervure. 



Secondaries white, sprinkled with grey over the basal area, and having a broad 

 row of large black spots, each of which is situated at the end of a nervule, thus 

 forming a disconnected broad border round the hind margin of the wingr. The 

 transverse row of dark spots on the underside is faintly visible on the upper 

 surface. 



In both primaries and secondaries the black nervules are obsolete and not distinct 

 as they are in the male. 



Underside. — Central area of the primaries white, the apex and hind margin being 

 pale yellow, with a strongly marked post-median row of black spots corresponding 

 with the band which crosses the apical area above, and from which equally distinct 

 black lines radiate along the nervules to the hind margin of the wing. Secondaries 

 entirely pale yellow, the nervules picked out with black towards the hind margin, 

 which is dusky ; a transverse band of seven black spots, situated between the 

 nervules and completely traversing the discal area to the inner margin ; the charac- 

 teristic basal streak of orange present on the costal margin, and a small spot of dusky 

 orange colour situated above a tiny black discoidal spot. Expanse 2-3 inches. 

 {Spec, ex Makaya District ; F. Kirhy ; Mus. Brit.) 



A second form of the female (fig. Id) has the general colour of the wings yellow 

 instead of white ; on the apical portion of the primaries the first row of spots is 

 yellow, while the second and inner row consists of but two small purple spots as in 

 the typical female. Secondaries with a broader and more complete black hind- 

 marginal border, not broken up into spots as in the female above described. 



Underside. — The general colour of the primaries is 3'ellow, with the apical area 



