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red and shading into a large dull olive-red cloud which 

 occupies the lower hind-marginal space ; the upper space to 

 the tip of the wing is filled by a large rich chocolate-red 

 blotch of a somewhat lunate form, very sharply defined and 

 conspicuous ; discal spot a semi-transparent white lunule, 

 edged with black ; just outside it a slender stripe or central 

 shade of deeper chocolate bends round, and then proceeds 

 obliquely to the dorsal margin ; cilia short, dark red-brown, 

 yellowish-brown round the anal angle. Hind wings broad, 

 deeply scalloped and crenulated behind, the two middle points 

 large and projecting ; colour very similar to that of the fore 

 wings, rich purple-chocolate to the middle, bounded by a 

 black-brown line continuous with the second line of the fore 

 wings ; this is followed by a broad rosy-white band, dusted 

 with dark reel and shading off into a large cloud of olive tint 

 toward the hind margin ; in the middle of this broad band 

 is a dark chocolate spot ; central spot a slender, semi-trans- 

 parent white lunule or forked streak, edged with black ; 

 cilia red-brown, tipped with white. Antennas of the female 

 simple ; fore wings rather narrower and fully as richly 

 coloured; abdomen thick, but pointed. 



Markings of the underside a repetition of those of the 

 upper, colours even more vivid and intense, except that along 

 the dorsal margin of the fore wings they are cut off by a broad 

 stripe of the pale ground colour ; lunules larger and whiter ; 

 ■on the base of the fore wings and the basal half of the hind, 

 the chocolate colour is very strongly mixed with orange ; 

 margins all rather more olive tinted Body and legs pale 

 Tosy-brown, the latter spotted with chocolate. 



The second generation, formerly regarded as a distinct 

 ■species under the name of delunaria, is usually smaller, 

 sometimes hardly more than one half the size of the first ; 

 its wings less elongated ; the colours softer, the chocolate 

 more of purple-red, and the band outside it more rosy. The 

 most remarkable difference is, however, in the form of the 

 second line, which is more undulating and graceful, and 



