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blacker, more distinctly truncate than on upper side, bounded superiorly 

 by lirst median nervule. Ilind-winfj : costa broadly edged with bright- 

 orange from base to before middle; an indistinct grey shade marks 

 position of costal stripe of upper side, and a small dusky mark (usually 

 mixed with rufous) its extremity beyond middle ; a hind-marginal series 

 of minute nervular spots, usually wanting above third median nervule ; 

 rarely a faint dusky longitudinal ray along disco-cellular fold to beyond 

 middle. 



$ Blackish markings largely (kvclojycd, especially in basal areas. 

 Fore-ioing : apical patch duller than in ^, inclining to yellow along its 

 inner edge (which has no trace of a blackish border), and intersected 

 by a well-marked, curved subnuxcular blackish stripe from costa to 

 second median nervule, or a little below it ; apical hind-marginal border 

 of patch brownish, broader than in $, more broadly and deeply pene- 

 trating the orange on nervules, but itself pierced almost or quite to 

 liind-marginal edge by the prolonged acuminate points of the inter- 

 nervular orange rays thus formed ; basal blackish, more or less white- 

 scaled, not reaching to middle of inner margin, but tilling the whole of 

 discoidal cell (leaving costal border white), concavely excised at extre- 

 mity of cell, extending beyond and below cell, and ending in an abruptly 

 truncate projection on median nervules ; below first median nervule, 

 beyond middle, a large quadrate blackish spot (representing termination 

 of inner-marginal stripe in ^), the upper inner angle of which touches, 

 or almost touches, truncate extremity of basal blackish area. Hincl- 

 vnng : basal area more or less deeply suffused with greyish-fuscous, 

 having a white or whitish space on costa about middle, immediately 

 followed by a large inferiorly acuminate blackish costal marking ; 

 extremity of discoidal cell usually blackish, enclosing a thin whitish 

 terminal lunule ; hind-marginal spots much enlarged and diffused, 

 forming a broad border, enclosing externally a series of small ill-defined 

 whitish inter-nervular spots; preceding the border, but partly touching 

 it, a discal transverse blackish ray on median nervules. Under side. — 

 Hind-wing and outer yart of apical i^atch of fore-wing more or less tinged 

 with creamy, rarely of a decided yelloiaish or reddish tint. Fore-wing : 

 blackish markings of upper side reproduced, but much fainter, the large 

 basal one densely irrorated with yellowish except on its outer projec- 

 tions ; intersecting ray of apical orange faintly indicated. Hind-wing : 

 a very faint grey shade representing basal clouding ; costal mark and 

 discal ray ill-defined, more or less red ; a rather conspicuous orange 

 terminal disco-cellular spot centred with white ; often a slight irroration 

 of grey atoms over all the wing, except upper half beyond middle. 

 Variety A. ^ and $ {2\ Deidetmioides, Auriv.). 

 $ Aptical patch of fore-tving with much reduced, sometimes almost 

 evanescent, inner blackish edging, usually broken at second median nervule ; 

 inner-margined stripie only narroivly developed near base ; costal stripe 

 of hind-wing fainter and narrower. Under side.— Hind- 10 in g and 



