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base, — the upper and middle ones having a common stem ; discal band 

 irregularly varied with very pale grey, most prominent between second 

 subcostal and radial nervules (where on upper side occurs usually the 

 wider of the two gaps often met with in discal baud) ; hind-marginal 

 lunulate markings brown ; neuration in the more strongly marked ex- 

 amples dark-brown or blackish except near base. 



Head and body above black, thorax and abdomen beneath and 

 laterally ochreous-yellow. Head with two large frontal spots, six 

 superior spots, half-ring round eyes, and palpi pale sulphur-yellow. 

 Thorax above with four pale sulphur-yellow spots, — two on prothorax 

 and two (larger) on bases of pterygodes ; legs black, femora pale sul- 

 phur-yellow in front. AMomcn with two rows of black spots on each 

 side (the upper row marking the line of junction of the dorsal blackish 

 and the ventral yellow), and with two black longitudinal streaks 

 beneath. 



$ (Ccnca, Stoll)."^ Sooty-black, ivith ochreous-ydloiu and white (o/- 

 all white) sjjofs in both loings, and a broad ochreous-yellow ine-mcdian 

 band in hind-ivings. Fore-wing : in discoidal cell, towards its ex- 

 tremity, an oblique, narrow marking, usually with a more or less 

 marked hook at each end, crossing about half the width of cell, white, 

 often tinged inferiorly with ochreous-yellow ; beyond cell, a discal 

 curved row of four spots, — three rather small (third longer than first 

 and second) between third subcostal and third median nervules, — the 

 fourth, much larger, elongate-ovate, between first and second median 

 nervules (sometimes diffusedly extending below first median nervule) ; 

 of these spots, the first is always white, the second and third usually 

 ochreous-yellow, but not rarely whitish or white, and the fourth nearly 

 always ochreous-yellow or pale ochreous-yellow, but sometimes white ; 

 a subapical spot as in $, but white (very rarely wanting) ; a sub- 

 marginal row of three (rarely two) smaller, rounded spots between 

 third median nervule and submedian nervure, usually more or less 

 tinged with ochreous-yellow, but in some specimens quite white ; in 

 some of the white-spotted examples, an indistinct narrow ochreous- 

 yellow mark on inner margin before middle. Hind-unng : ochreous- 

 yellow band somewhat paler and broader in specimens having the 

 spots of the fore-wing white, a little diffused on both inner and outer 

 edges, — the former being not very far from base, and the latter a little 

 beyond middle ; a submarginal series of twelve small spots arranged 

 in inter-nervular pairs, of which ordinarily only the uppermost two 

 are white, while the rest are ochreous-yellow, but in some examples 

 (and always in those which have white-spotted fore-wing) all are 

 white. Under side : Ground-colour of fore-wing blacli, and the pale 

 marJcings in both icings answering to those of upper side ; but ground- 

 colour of hind-iving and apical hind-marginal area of fore-iving lighter 

 or deeper ochreous-broivn, with inter-nervular rays agreeing ivith those 

 ' Mimics Amaurls Echcria, (Stoli). 



