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rather iipriglit; seconJ line partly ]iarallel with it, but 

 throwing out about the middle a bluut angle or tooth, and 

 in its whole course more rippled ; these two enclose the 

 central band, which is broad, dull ]iiirple. and contains a 

 black discal dot; just outside it, and closely following the 

 sinuosities of the second line, is a slender white line imme- 

 diately bounded by one or two quite parallel purple or tawny 

 lines, forming a jjretty rivulet of the pale reddish-grey colour ; 

 beyond is a partial purple stripe, and then a tawny costal 

 blotch running into the apex, a purplish-grey shade down the 

 hind-marginal area, and in it two purple spots close together 

 above the middle ; outside these is the rippled white suli- 

 termlnal line; cilia pale smoky-grey spotted and clouded 

 with darker. Hind wings smoky-white, rippled almost from 

 the base with incomplete transverse cloudy grey lines ; 

 beyond the middle is a whiter band followed b\' smoky-grey 

 shading to the hind margin ; cilia concolorous. Female 

 similar, but with simple antenna:>. 



Underside of the fore wings pale tawny, the markings 

 and shades of the upper side indicated in |)iii'tial ])urple-l.irown 

 bands. Hind wings brownish-white, having faint broad 

 bands of reddish-brown colour, broken up by paler transverse 

 lines. ]5ody and legs pale yellow-brown. 



The general tendency of variation in this species is to 

 breaking up of the central band into stripes by the intro- 

 duction of a pale yellow or pale luitt' intei ior stripe, bounded 

 by dark lines ; this interior strii)e is often but faintly indi- 

 cated in the purple band, but, on the other hand, sometimes 

 so well marked and added to by further ]iai-allel lines that 

 the ordinary character of the central band disa])pears, and 

 the whole wing is covered with transverse stripes of pale 

 purple, pale yellow, and separating ])iir[ile-grey or black 

 lines. Occasioiuilly, however, the whole band is darkened to 

 purple-brown or umbreous, with blacker dividing-line.s. A 

 specimen in my own collection lias only the narrow interitu- 

 stripe dark, tlu' remaini-lei- of the centi'al Ijand being pale 



