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more or less j?rajasli; the stripe is srenerally continuous, very slender, nearly equal, 

 dark brownish fuscous, often tinged Avith reddish; it starts from tlie costal nervure 

 and crosses the costo-subcostal interspace at right angles, as a crescent opening 

 inwards, strikes the upper suljcostal at a distance from its origin about equal to the 

 width of the intcirspace just crossed, passes in a broadly curving line, opening iuAvards, 

 to the upper median ncrvule at a short distance from its origin ; it then passes still 

 nearer the origin and crosses the two median interspaces in a straight line or in a 

 similar curve, nearly or quite at right angles to the nervure it crosses ; then it follows 

 the lower median nervure for a considerable distance outward, or to as far again 

 from its origin as it was when it struck it, passes to the middle of the submedio- 

 internal interspace, opposite the previous transverse portion of the stripe, in a deep 

 loop which crosses the submedian but little short of the middle of its outer two- 

 thirds; from the middle of the interspace it is bent at right angles, strikes the inter- 

 nal and is then again directed toward the base of the wing; within this stripe there 

 are two conspicuous blackish fuscous bars, one connecting the lower subcostal and 

 upper median nervules along the track of the ncrvule which closes the cell (or would 

 close the cell were it closed) , the other transversely crossing at least the upper half 

 and sometimes the whole of the cell, just within the first divarication of the subcostal ; 

 the mesial stripe is followed exteriorly by a nearly uniform band about an interspace 

 in width, but with its outer limit generally shading gradually into the tint beyond, 

 generally of a pale ashy hue, but sometimes more or less tinged with dull nacreous ; 

 the outer border is marked with a submarginal crenulate streak and presubmarginal 

 creuatc lines similar to those of the fore wings, but more regular and unifoi'm and 

 with all the colors of this portion of the wing similar to the fore wing ; between these 

 markings and the extra-mesial band is a field of a warm yellowish brown tint, often 

 tinged more or less with feruginous, the middle of whicli is occupied by a transverse 

 series of seven roundish spots, which, when fully developed, are well formed, nearly 

 equal ocelli, occupying every interspace between the costal and sub-median, the lower- 

 most double and yet smallest ; they consist normally of a pale blue minute pupil set in 

 black, in the middle of a spot of the color of the field in which the spots are situated, 

 and encircled with yellowish green and then more narrowly with blackish brown : the 

 whole seldom occupies more than two-thirds the width of an interspace, even when, as 

 in the median interspaces, the spots are obliquely oval and in which case the pupil 

 becomes linear; the blue scales are often obsolete; generally, however, these ocelli 

 become almost entirely obscured by an intermingling of the scales and the partial con- 

 fluence of the spots which then follows, in which case they seem to form only a deeper, 

 more feruginous band within the darker area, with the spots usually partially limited, 

 frequently with faint traces of the pupil, which is then oftenest pale or even whitish, 

 and generally obliquely linear in all the interspaces ; the veins are dusky and the fringe 

 similar to that of the upper surface. 



Abdomen above blackish, covered with bi'own and tawny scales; below pale griseous. 

 Male abdominal appendages (33 : 10, 10a) : hook of upper organ, sharply constricted at 

 the base, notched in the middle of the tip half way doAvn to the constriction, the sides 

 of the notch pai'allel to its bottom, narrowly separated, thus forming two lobes, very 

 broadly rounded at the outer hinder angle, curved slightly downwartl, and, especially 

 near the tip, inclined slightly toward the opposite lobe ; clasps two and one-fourth times 

 as long as broad, the free upper edge a little wavy, armed at the tip with a slender, taper- 

 ing, finely pointed, regularly and considerably incurved hook, as long as the lobes of 

 the hook of the upper organ. 



Described from 4^19. 



