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patch ; beyond it the first line is dark purple-brown, gently 

 curved, and bent in toward the dorsal margin ; second line a 

 little sinuous, nearly erect but bent out and then turned and 

 thickened toward the costa ; between these lines, but nearer 

 the latter, is a more oblique and bent cloudy red-brown stripe 

 or shade which crosses the end of the discal cell and touches 

 the very obscure white discal lunule when the latter is visible, 

 which is by no means always the case ; all the lines are 

 emphasised on the costa, and between them that region is 

 somewhat whiter than the general colour, as also is the outer 

 margin of the second line ; hind margin clouded with orange- 

 brown except from the apex to the elbow, which is occupied 

 by a chestnut-red or red-brown lunate blotch edged behind 

 by a whitish line ; cilia j'ellowish-white dashed with purple- 

 brown. Hind wings broad and moderately long ; pale dull 

 purplish-drab, with two very faint transverse purple-brown 

 lines just before the middle, and a broad ill-defined ' similar 

 cloud occupying the whole of the hind-marginal space; cilia 

 vellowish-white spotted with red-brown. Antennas, of the 

 female simple; body much thicker; fore wings shorter and 

 more strongly crenulated behind ; the colour usually paler, 

 almost to ashy-brown or purplish-white, but the transverse 

 lines often darker and more suffused. 



Underside more handsomely coloured than the upper; fore 

 wings pale purple-brown dusted witli chocolate, the discal 

 spot white, and the three lines blacker ; the apical lunule 

 dark chocolate ; the hind-marginal region behind and below 

 it richly clouded with chocolate, in which is a wavy pale 

 pnrple shade or sub-terminal line. Hind wings richer purple- 

 brown, the central spot sharply ' white, placed in a large 

 chocolate cloud; be^yond it the broad hind-marginal stripe is 

 deep velvety chocolate. 



The second brood is nearly always smaller, especially so in 

 the male — this species exhibiting the remarkable character 

 that in the first generation the male is much larger, and in 

 the second smaller, than the female — its colouring is of a 



