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with black. The fore wings have two black spots in the 

 cell, one round, the other a short bar, and a wide bar at 

 the end, broadest at the costa ; and a row of four spots 

 from the hind margin to beyond the cell, all but the 

 last round. Outer border ferruginous brown, with a 

 subapical bar of the same. 



Hind wings with four more or less distinct median 

 black spots, and a broad ferruginous brown border en- 

 closing a submarginal row of fulvous spots. Edges of 

 both wings whitish purple. 



The costa is rather falcate, the apex truncate, and the 

 hind wings have a short tail. 



Under side clouded in shades of brown, in some ex- 

 amples partly suffused with purple, without the striking 

 diversity of color found on Umbrosa, the common row 

 of black points more or less obsolete, costal edge of fore 

 wings near the base clouded with small yellow spots, 

 with some yellow color below. Discal silvery or golden 

 mark on the hind wing an interrupted C. 



Dimorphic form, Umbrosa, Lintn. — This has the 

 fore wings as in Fabricii, but with less purple edging. 

 The hind wings have the outer two thirds overlaid 

 with black, in some examples quite intense, the tail 

 purple. 



The under side is variegated with ferruginous brown, 

 olivaceous, and more or less purple. The basal third is 

 limited by an irregular ferruginous, partly olivaceous 

 band, within which the ground color is yellow-brown 

 streaked with ferruginous. Beyond this band the fore 

 wings have a narrow belt of yellow-brown, and beyond 

 this the colors are brown and olivaceous. There is a 

 lilac patch near the posterior angle, and another sub- 



