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apex rounded ; hind margin gently curved ; dorsal margin 

 nearly straight, ciliated ; colour creamy yellowish-white ; 

 first line somewhat duplicated, black, forming the outer edge 

 of a rich brown blotch at the base, dusted with silvery-blue ; 

 second line cloudy reddish-brown, spotted with black, erect 

 from the dorsal margin, curved and undulating gently out- 

 wards then curving back to the costa ; this line is the inner 

 edge of a very beautiful broad transverse stripe, glistening 

 bluish-grey, clouded through the middle with black, margined 

 outwardly by rounded projections, thro wing out small similar 

 cloudy spots above the middle, and beneath these, small 

 fulvous clouds, thus almost filling the hind marginal space ; 

 between the two lines the usual central shade is represented 

 by a fine line of small brown dots, arising from a rather 

 larger one on the costa ; extreme hind margin dotted with 

 black ; cilia creamy-white, a little clouded with grey-black. 

 Hind wings ample, rounded or faintly squared, and slightly 

 crenulated behind, having a small hollow in the margin just 

 above the middle ; creamy-white, faintly dappled with 

 yellow-brown, and having three small brown spots upon the 

 dorsal margin, each of which originates a faint dappled or 

 €renulated smoky-brown transverse line or shade, the outer- 

 most distinctly scalloped ; beyond it is a fainter shady line 

 close to the hind margin, central spot a small brown dot ; 

 cilia creamy-white. Female a little stouter in body, the 

 faint transverse lines of the hind wings sometimes more 

 distinct, or even forming a broad cloudy band, otherwise 

 similar. 



Undersides of all the wings yellowish-white ; the fore 

 wings shading more toward yellow along the costa, and 

 dusted in the middle area with pale purplish-brown ; the 

 markings of the upper side reproduced in the same pale tint ; 

 the central spot of the hind wings black, and the shaded 

 lines deepened into transverse bands. Body and legs 

 brownish-white; the tarsi barred with purplish-brown. 



There is a slight difference in the ground colour of the 



