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Antenna) of tbe male pectinated with long slender ciliated 

 teeth, yellowish-white ; palpi small, tawny ; eyes dark purple ; 

 head orange-fulvous, having a transverse furrow beneath the 

 antennse ; across the base of the collar is a dark purple band ; 

 remainder of the thorax rather loosely scaled, orange-yellow, 

 slender; abdomen also slender, smooth, pale yellow; lateral 

 tufts minute ; anal tuft pointed. Fore wings short, broad 

 and retuse ; costa strongly arched ; apex curved to a point ; 

 hind margin below it concave, then filled out conspicuously 

 in the middle, and curved off below, but the anal angle 

 well defined, dorsal margin rather rounded, finely ciliated ; 

 colour orange-yellow ; the nervures all orange-red, and the 

 surface dusted with the same ; first line slender, purple- 

 black, forming a strong elbow or angle outward ; second line 

 rather waved, abnormally placed, arising from the middle of 

 the dorsal margin a.nd running very obliquely to the tip of 

 the wing, black ; outwardly it edges a purple band, which, 

 shading off paler, fills the hind-marginal area, running neces- 

 sarily to a point at the apex ; discal spot a small black dot ; 

 cilia dark purple, paler at the tips. Hind wings rather 

 rounded, the hind margin having a faint concavity close to 

 the apex and a deeper one below it ; colour orange-yellow ; 

 nervures orange-red ; central spot a small black dot ; in the 

 middle is a transverse purple-black line, beyond which the 

 hinder portion of the wing is purple, clouded toward the 

 margin with orange ; cilia dark purple tipped with paler. 

 Female very similar, with simple antennas and rather stouter 

 body ; but often the purple marginal band of the fore wings 

 is deeper in colour. 



Underside a repetition of the upper, but the yellow is 

 paler, and more dusted with purple, and the inner edge of 

 each purple hind band is clouded with black. Body and legs 

 dull purple tinged with yellow. 



Eather variable in the depth of orange-yellow of the 

 ground colour, and very so in the tone of purple in the 

 marginal bands ; this is sometimes as deep in the male as in 



