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hollows between the crenulatlous deeply scooped out close 

 above the anal angle, which is consequently rather sharp ; 

 dorsal margin straight ; colour deep black-brown, more brown 

 behind ; basal line only indicated by an oblique deeper black 

 streak at the base of the costa ; first line only visible under 

 a lens, slender, deep black, forming very long hair-like lines 

 with angles between the nervures, that which lies nearest the 

 dorsal margin extending to and joining the second line ; down 

 the space inside this angle runs a deeper black line from the 

 base of the wing ; second line deep black, formed into long 

 sweeping curves, slenderly edged in its upper portion with 

 pale brown, but in the dorsal half sharply edging the black 

 area and followed by a curiously shaped pale-brown blotch 

 which is constricted in the middle and also streaked with 

 white, and bears a fanciful resemblance in shape to the 

 shoulder and extended wing of one of the wading birds 

 (hence its common name, " Bird's-wing ") ; from this a similarly 

 coloured stripe runs along the dorsal margin to the base ; 

 subterminal line scarcely indicated, but a brown-black blotch 

 lies outside the " bird's-wing "' at the anal angle ; in the black- 

 brown area above it are several deep black lines running into 

 the hind margin, and parallel with them one or two pale-brown 

 or grey-brown clouds or cloudy streaks ; on the costa are 

 several minute yellow-brown dots ; cilia black-brown with 

 a pale-brown dash on each crenulation. Hind wings rounded, 

 pale brown with a golden gloss ; nervures darker brown ; cilia 

 crenulated, whitish-brown dashed with darker. Female accu- 

 rately similar. 



Underside of fore wings smoky-brown with a golden gloss ; 

 dorsal margin iridescent-green ; a pale-brown streak ' lies 

 at the apex, and there are pale dashes in the cilia. Hind 

 wings whitish-brown abundantly dusted with umbreous, espe- 

 cially along the costal margin and apex ; central spot smoky- 

 black ; beyond it is a faint smoky-brown transverse stripe. 

 Body aiid legs pale smoky-brown ; front tibige black, barred 

 with white. 



