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two-thirds (^) t!ic distance from the origin of the first ncrvule to the apex of the cell ; 

 the third at scarcely two-thirds the distance from tlie apex of the cell to the oi"i- 

 gin of the fourth nervnle ; the latter midway between the apex of tiie cell aTid the 

 outer border. Veins of the fore wing l)lack; basal half of costal margin and of tlie 

 cell, and from here to the middle of tlie outer half of the inner border very iieavily 

 begrimed witii l)lack scales; in the cell, crossing it on either side of the middle and 

 separated from each other liy more than their OAvn width are two irregularly sinuous 

 black bars ; and niidAvay between the outer and the tip of the cell a similar one ; the 

 outer limit of the cell is marked within by a narrow border of black and without by a 

 sickle-shaped, ))lack bar, enclosing below next the cell a semicircular or subtriangular 

 fulvous spot ; l)cyond is an irregular, mesial, rather narrow, lilack band, extending from 

 close to the costal border at about three-fifths the distance from the base to the sub- 

 median nervure a little before the middle of its outer half; it first stretches in a 

 nearly straigiit line, its inner border always, its outer border generally, zigzag, to the 

 upper median nervule, which it strikes in the middle; here it turns inward again, 

 crossing the middle of the basal half of the upper median interspace as a greatly 

 curved bar, its upper limb stretching far out to join the upper portion of the stripe ; 

 the lower median interspace is crossed in a similar manner in the middle of its basal 

 half (sometimes of the basal two-thirds) , while in the medio-submedian intei'space 

 it is nearly straight, or if curved or bent it is generally in the opposite direction, 

 crossing it beyond the middle of the interspace directly beneath the bar of the upper 

 median interspace. Beyond the mesial stripe, next the costal border, is a short, trans- 

 verse stripe parallel to the initial portion of the mesial stripe, at about a third the 

 distance between this and the tip, and crossing all the subcostal interspaces ex- 

 cepting the loAver half or the whole of the lowermost ; between this and the apex of 

 the cell, the lower two subcostal nervules are heavily edged with black, and the 

 median nervules are generally rather heavily bordered with black in both sexes, in 

 the vicinit}' of the mesial band. In the middle of the apical half of the wing is a 

 transverse series of six round, black spots, in the two lower subcostal and the succeeding 

 interspaces; the fourth and fifth are largest, about half the width of an interspace, 

 and the sixth usually smallest. The outer margin of the wing is narrowly edged Avith 

 black, and at a distance of one-third the width of an interspace (or rather more than 

 that above) is a similar black line expanding into small roundish powdery spots on 

 the nervules and connected there with the border ; the space betAveen these two lines 

 is almost or quite obscured in the upper half of the wing in the female by blackish ; 

 foUoAving this inner line is a series of roundish fuh^ous spots, their outer limit the 

 line mentioned and its nerA'ular swellings, their inner the outer curved border of 

 lunular black spots, the arms of which are seated upon or just fail of touching the 

 nervular SAvellings of the inner marginal line, and the produced inner border of Avhich 

 reach half Avay to the roAV of round black spots ; in the subcostal interspaces above 

 the round spots, these lunular markings become rather short, longitudinal dashes; 

 fringe dull yelloAvish white, rather narroAvly and gradually interrupted with l)lackish 

 at the nervule tips. Outer margin of the Jiind icings not so fully rounded as in A. 

 aphrodite, Avith a broken, bent, mesial stripe of black lunules and bars, rather narrower 

 than that of the fore Avings ; it starts from about the centre of the costo-subcostal inter- 

 space, and has first a general direction toAvard the middle of the upper median interspace 

 on the outer border, but Avheu it has reached the middle of the subcosto-median inter- 

 space, it turns at a little more than a right angle toAvard the inner margin and termi- 

 nates at the submedian nervure at about tAvo-thirds the distance from the base of the 

 Aving ; the upper half of this stripe is usually composed of strongly curved lunules 

 opening outAvard ; the subcosto-median interspace is crossed by a straight bar ; Avhile 

 the median interspaces are traversed by lunules, but not so curved, nor generally so 

 large as those of the subcostal interspaces ; the base of the Aving, within this mesial 

 stripe, is begi'imed quite heaAily with black scales and obscured by long fulvous hairs, 

 sometimes partially concealing the stripe itself but sometimes not extending quite so far ; 

 the apex of the cell is crossed by a broad black bar (sometimes obscured) having a faint. 



