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dicular, double, black, the inner parallel fornuua' the outside 

 edge of a broad extent of velvety-black central band ; out- 

 side is a broad band of the paler smoky colouring, shading 

 darker behind ; subterminal line obscurely pale yellow-brown, 

 irregular and much indented, edged inwardly by black 

 clouds; orbicular stigma oblique, flattened at the sides, open 

 at the top, abundantly margined with smoky-yellow ; reni- 

 form stigma excessively expanded at the base so as to form 

 two large lobes, the upper erect, the other horizontal, and 

 throwing a pointed extension toward the orbicular, faintly 

 edged and dusted with dusky yellow ; space between the two 

 stigmata black ; costal region smoky-yellowish-black regu- 

 larly barred to the second line with deep black clouds, beyond 

 this are three yellow costal dots ; beyond the subterminal 

 line the apical space is occupied by a squared smoky-yellow- 

 brown patch ; hind margin in some degree clouded with the 

 same and edged with a strongly undulating deep black line, 

 from each scallop of which a black streak runs inward 

 between the nervures, these also being blackened ; cilia 

 following the undulations of the scallops and throwing out 

 points at the tips, smoky-yellow shaded with a darker undu- 

 lating stripe. Hind wings long and very broad, deeply 

 scalloped behind, glossy smoky-black, barred in the middle 

 by a transverse straight smoky-yellow shade, and with 

 another from the anal angle along the hind margin ; cilia 

 smoky-yellow, even more deeply scalloped than the margin. 

 Female extremely similar, sometimes more dull in colour, 

 body much stouter. 



Underside of the fore wings smoky-black ; hind maro-iu 

 broadly smoky-yellow dusted with black ; beyond the middle 

 is a transverse paler band, slightly curved; hind wings 

 quite similar except that there is also a deep black elong- 

 ated central spot. 



Not very variable, though some examples have the black 

 portion of the central band very vdvetyAA^ok, contrasting 

 well with the paler lines and shades ; and these usually have 



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