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in the middle, and runs almost into the apex of the wing, so 

 that the purple marginal stripe is here differently shaped ; 

 in the hind wings the margin of the purple band is also 

 excavated by a similar outward bend of the transverse line ; 

 sometimes a minute central dot is visible on all the wings. 



Underside in both sexes, so far as the colours and the form 

 of the purple marginal band are concerned, as on the upper; 

 in the male the orange-yellow surface is dusted, but not 

 veined, with purple. Body and legs purple ; tarsi yellow. 



There is some little variation in the male in the depth of 

 the orange-yellow ground colour, and in the degree of purple 

 dusting, also in the intensity of the purple of the marginal 

 band ; in rare instances the ground colour is pale yellow with 

 the usual dusting ; in others it is of the usual tint but with- 

 out the dusting; and again, in others, deep dark chestnut- 

 red. One such as this last is in the cabinet of Mr. Sydney 

 Webb, and also a most curious gynandrous example : its 

 antenno3 are male, but the pectinations on the right antenna 

 are scarcely so long as on the other ; the body is male, the 

 right fore wing female, the left partially so, but the band is 

 more as in the male, and the hind wings are male. In my 

 own collection is a beautiful female having the marginal 

 band of all the wings shaped as in the male ; its first line 

 instead of being curved is sharply angulated ; and another 

 female is on record which has the complete markings of the 

 male. 



On the wing in July and August, sometimes even 

 September. 



Larva rather stout, wrinkled, much attenuated in front, 

 sides puckered ; a small lateral projection on the sixth seg- 

 ment ; head rounded, not shining, smoky-brown ; dorsal 

 region dull smoky-brown; dark greyish-brown from the 

 second to the fifth segment ; sides rather darker ; a pale 

 ochreous or brownish patch upon the sixth segment precedes 

 two oblique black dashes which meet in the middle of the 



