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line very slender, oblique, white or pale brown, running into 

 the subdorsal nervure ; first line obscure, deeply angulated 

 above the median nervure, broadly curved below it, dusky- 

 white ; second line slender, even, placed in simple curves, 

 similar in colour, but in the red and drab forms hardly 

 perceptible, in the dark distinctly edged on each side with 

 the dark ground colour; subterminal line parallel with it, 

 edged inwardly with black spots of which two before the 

 apex are conspicuous as a perpendicular or slightly oblique 

 black wedge ; the space between the second and subterminal 

 lines sometimes forms a darker baud rendered very orna- 

 mental by its being cut up by the white nervures ; outside is 

 a parallel grey or whitish stripe, orbicular stigma flattened, 

 ovate, oblique, rather darker than the ground colour, and 

 edged with brownish-white, but often hardly perceptible ; 

 reniform stigma erect, some shade of brown, but blackened 

 at the base and edged at the sides with pale brown lines ; 

 lying right across it is a waved duskj^-brown or smoky-black 

 central shade ; cilia concolorous but spotted with dull black. 

 Hind wings white with smoky shading in streaks from the 

 base ; central spot a large smoky-black lunule ; beyond it 

 is a faint similar cloud}^ band toward the hind margin 

 including in it a large blacker cloud in the middle and 

 another near the anal angle ; hind margin edged by a black 

 line ; cilia white with smok}^ clouding. Female similar in 

 all variations of colour, yet in some instances having the 

 hind wings more shaded with smoky-black ; body stouter 

 and with smaller anal tuft ; antennae simple. 



Underside of the fore wings smoke-colour ; costal and 

 hind margins white or pale reddish-brown ; reniform stigma 

 blackened; just beyond it is a partial cloudy black trans- 

 verse band ; cilia darkened. Hind wings white dusted with 

 black ; central spot black, smaller than on the upper side ; 

 black spots along the hind margin, cilia white. Body pale 

 grey or pale purple-brown; legs whitish-brown; leg tufts 

 tinged with grey. 



