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length of discoidal cell ; basal portion, to some distance, thickly streaked 

 with short, thin, yellow transverse lines, and irrorated with yellowish 

 scales ; in outer portion of discoidal cell two good-sized spots, the lower 

 one farther from base than npper, and a transverse yellow streak touch- 

 ing the closing nervules ; above the latter, outside cell, a short longi- 

 tudinal streak ; beyond this a subquadrate spot on costa commences a 

 transverse row of ten irregular-shaped spots, the first three curving out- 

 wards towards hind-margin, the remainder inclining inwardly, increasing 

 in size to about middle of inner margin, — the eighth and ninth much 

 larger than the rest ; two rows of spots along hind-margin, the inner 

 row of nine spots commencing with an elongate outwardly-curving 

 mark on costa, the outer row on hind-marginal edge consisting of eight 

 lunular spots. Hind-wing: a little before middle a transverse stripe 

 continuous of the median row of spots in fore-wing, narrowing to 

 beyond middle of inner margin, and divided very unequally into six by 

 the crossing nervures; on costa touching, and half encircled by, outer 

 edge of stripe, an ovate, bronzy, blue-ringed spot in a black ring ; on 

 inner margin, just before anal angle and almost touching stripe, a black 

 inwardly densely blue-scaled sjDot, bounded outwardly by a very broad 

 dark-red crescent ; two rows of hind-marginal spots as in fore-wing, 

 but larger and more lunular, the inner row of seven (of which the first 

 and seventh touch the costal and inner-marginal ocelli respectively), 

 the outer of six spots ; all the black portion of wing, as far as inner 

 row of marginal spots, thickly irrorated with yellow dots ; dentation 

 on first median nervule on hind-margin more produced than the rest 

 (indicating the generic inclination to a tail). Under side. — Consider- 

 ably 2Mlcr than iqjpcr side. Fore-wing : spots as on upper side ; yellow 

 streak above subcostal nervure extends to beyond middle ; four yellow 

 streaks radiating from base in cell (besides two very fine bounding 

 lines along subcostal and median nervules respectively), and two below 

 cell ; no irrorations. Hind-vnng : base widely yellowish, divided into 

 three curved transverse stripes by the black-clouded costal and pre- 

 costal nervures ; stripe before middle as on upper side ; ocelli similar ; 

 within discoidal cell, at extremity, a dull-golden inwardly bluish-scaled 

 crescent, edging a semicircular black marking ; inner row of hind- 

 marginal spots (which are larger than on upper side) closely paralleled 

 on their inner side by a row of five sublunular marks, coloured like 

 the crescent in cell, and, like it, bounding each a blackish mark ; the 

 dark space between cell and these latter markings is thickly irrorated 

 with dull-golden scales. 



Head black, with palpi, a streak on each side from palpus to back 

 of vertex, and edging round eyes, pale sulphur-yellow. Thorax above 

 black, irrorated with sulphur-yellow, except pterygodes (which have, 

 however, an internal yellow streak continuous of that on each side of 

 the head) 5 breast sulphur-yellow with two oblique black stripes on 

 each side ; legs black, more or less densely scaled with yellow except 



