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purple-brown, edged with an angulated black stripe ; first 

 lino oblique, rather curved, black, edging a slender dark 

 purple-brown stripe; beyond this the middle poi'tion of the 

 central band is of the pale ground-colour, and is bounded out- 

 wardly by a dark purple-brown stripe, which is in part pale 

 and interrupted, and is itself edged by the second line — 

 deep black above the middle, but below formed into exceed- 

 ingly slender purple-black loops or crescents ; the black 

 costal portion forms the edge of a purple-brown stripe from 

 the costa ; outside this is a stripe of the ground-colour deli- 

 cately laced with another slender dark irregular line ; hind 

 marginal region broadly and smoothly purple or purple-pink ; 

 in it, opposite the middle of the hind margin, is a conspicuous 

 white dot or cloudy spot ; and running into the apex a thin 

 short black streak ; hind margin edged by an undulating 

 purple-black line, more faintlj? duplicated in the cilia, which 

 are pale purple. Hind wings elongated, strongly crenulated 

 behind ; smoky whitish-brown with a purplish flush, tinged 

 along the hind margin, anal angle, and dorsal margin with 

 dusky purple, and barred upon the latter with the same 

 colour; cilia also dull purple. Female very similar, abdomen 

 shorter. 



Underside of the fore wings whitish purple-l^rown ; the 

 costa much barred with a richer tint of the same colour 

 alternating with yellow and black. Hind wings veiy glossy, 

 pale purple-brown, with faint indications of darker transverse 

 lines, and with darker streaks on the nervures. Body and 

 legs purple-brown. 



There is constant variation in the ground-colour, as already 

 indicated, from purplish-white or almost yellowish-white 

 through various shades of purplish-yellow to smoky purple- 

 brown, but this often appears only in the centi-al band, and 

 is there more or less narrowed, by encroachment and black- 

 ening of the bordering purple stripes, often to a slender pale 

 stripe, more rarely to one or two pale ^poh, isolated by the 

 conjunction of the dark liands. lu this last form there is 



