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beyond the middle, is a double series of black spots enclosing 

 an orange-yellow stripe ; hind margin and also hind wings 

 sprinkled with large round black spots. 



Antennas of the male rather short, simple, a little thickened, 

 densely ciliated, black-brown ; palpi minute, dark-brown ; 

 tongue well developed ; eyes black ; head deeper black, 

 smooth ; thorax black, except that the collar is rich orange- 

 yellow, and the raised shoulder-lappets paler yellow ; abdo- 

 men smooth, orange-yellow, with a large black spot on the 

 back of each segment, and another on each side ; lateral and 

 anal tufts rich orange. Fore wings very broad ; costa 

 decidedly arched ; apex rounded ; hind margin not very 

 oblique, and but very slightly, though smoothly, rounded, 

 more so in an even curve round the anal angle ; dorsal margin 

 slightly filled out, and decidedly ciliated ; colour white ; at 

 the extreme base is an orange dot enclosed by a black 

 angulated spot, this being equally clasped by a curved short 

 orange stripe, which suggests a sort of basal line, and is 

 itself margined with black spots which suggest a stripe ; 

 beyond the middle is a double series of round black spots 

 enclosing an orange stripe, all which together follow the 

 usual shape of an ordinary second line in being obliquely 

 curved outward and bent in again toward the costal margin ; 

 preceding these is a large black spot on the costa, which 

 unites with another representing the discal spot ; below this 

 two isolated black spots indicate the position of the usual 

 central shade ; along the hind margin is a row of equally 

 conspicuous round, or ovate, black spots ; cilia short, dull 

 black when touching the spots, white between them. Hind 

 ■wings very ample and smoothly rounded behind, white; 

 central spot round, black ; beyond it some scattered similar 

 spots indicate a sort of transverse stripe ; and a conspicuous 

 row of larger ones lies along the hind margin, affecting the 

 cilia, as in the fore wings. Female a little stouter; the 

 antennas more slender, otherwise quite similar. 



Undersides of all the wings white,with the black spots of the 

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