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three similar striee helow cell, — one immediately beneath the 

 third stria in cell, the other two (whose outer white edging is 

 merged in transverse band) situate one above, the other below, 

 second median nervule ; two faint-blackish marks in trans- 

 verse, glistening-white band, close to costa ; beyond white 

 band, the ground-colour is more ochreous in tint, and marked 

 with a transverse row of triangular, or sub-triangular, blackish 

 marks, outwardly edged with glistening-whitish, (except the 

 two last and lai-gest, below third median nervule, which are 

 contiguous, and edged outwardly with greyish-blue) ; on 

 hind-margin, a greyish mark at extremity of each nervule, 

 and a yellowish tinge between nervules ; before transverse 

 white band, and touching it, beneath third median nervule, a 

 large, somewhat quadrate, blackish spot, not with a metallic 

 centre ; the space between it and base dull ochreous. Hind- 

 tving : at base, on costa, an elongate spot, coloured similarly 

 to striae in fore-tving, and like them margined with glistening 

 white ; inner-marginal edge bordered with a black, inwardly 

 white-margined streak near base, where its outline is most 

 strongly convex; obliquely crossing the deeply -grooved portion 

 of wing are three elongate, glistening striae, like those above 

 described, white-margined on both sides, the second and third 

 united by a curve at their lower and outer extremity (where, 

 close to inner-margin, they meet the broad transverse white 

 band), — and the third likewise united, by a curve in the 

 opposite direction from the same extremity, to a similar elon- 

 gate streak lying in the fold where the swelling of the side of 

 the groove commences ; this latter streak seems continuous of a 

 transverse row of three short, similarly coloured, contiguous 

 marks from costa, which it meets on median nervure, very 

 little removed from base ; near end of cell is a similar, curved 

 streak, which is continued doionwards and outwards by a 

 further streak of the same colours that, touching the streak 

 lying in the fold of wing, suddenly curves upward at its 

 extremity, where it meets white transverse band ; broad, 

 transverse white band more glistening than that in fore-wing, 

 more sharply-defined than on upper-side, continued con- 

 spicuously to inner-marginal edge, a little before anal angle, 

 edged inwardly by a row of metallic-centred, small spots of 

 variable size, (the outer portion of whose white margins is 

 merged with the band itself) as far as third median nervule, — 

 and outwardly by an ill-defined, blackish streak, which always 

 becomes obsolete towards costa, about second subcostal 

 nervule ; beyond band, two transverse rows of dull-blackish, 

 sub-lunular marks, edged, the first exteriorly, the second 

 interiorly, with metallic glistening-whitish, thin rays of which. 



