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middle and with glistening pnrple or purplish-grey beyond 

 it; nervures faintly darker; basal line obscure, double, 

 darker, restricted to pairs o£ faint crescents ; first line 

 duplicated rather far apart, the inner purple-brown, the 

 outer rich brown clouded with orange, both disposed in 

 wide crescents ; second line similarly double and widely 

 separated, the inner rich brown and forming the boundary 

 of the darker central colour, the outer very slender, purple- 

 brown, both curved and angulated or scalloped throughout ; 

 subterminal line an irregular series of faint darker cloudy 

 streaks, often forming the inner edge of a dark clouding 

 along the hind margin ; these lines with the dark nervures 

 give the wing a faintly latticed appearance ; orbicular stigma 

 round, reddish-orange edged with red-brown ; reuiform 

 stigma silvery-white, golden-yellow, or rich orange, divided 

 into sections by slender red-brown connected curved lines, 

 which give it a curious resemblance to a human ear, this being 

 usually the only conspicuous marking upon the wing ; clavi- 

 form stigma an obscure reddish-brown loop ; sometimes a 

 darker, or deeper red, slender central shade crosses the wing 

 from between the upper stigmata, in other cases the space 

 around them is broadly clouded with this richer colour, or 

 it extends across as a faintly darker broad band to the 

 dorsal margin, the second line margining it outside and 

 being itself followed by a broad stripe of the rather paler 

 ground colour ; on the costa beyond the middle are three 

 white dots ; hind margin edged with a rich chocolate-red 

 line ; cilia dark purple-red. Hind wings rather small, the 

 hind margin somewhat sinuous, smoky-brown, rather paler 

 along the costal region; hind margin faintly edged with a 

 pale purplish-brown shade; cilia smoky purplish-brown 

 tipped with paler. Female stouter but very similar. 



Underside of the fore wings rich red-brown or yellow- 

 brown clouded in the middle with smoky-black ; hind 

 marginal region paler; cilia puqjle-brown. Hind wings 

 red-brown or yellow-brown along the costal region, shadino- 



