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and rippled with purple-red ; basal region to the first line of 

 the latter colour, the line itself double, placed in broad 

 curves, dark red-brown ; second line of unusual form, the 

 portions toward the margins of the wing being placed oppo- 

 site each other, waved and scalloped, while the middle portion 

 is curved out toward the hind margin, sometimes very 

 strikingly so ; outside it on the costa is a large purple-brown 

 cloud, cut off before the apex ; subterminal line a partial row 

 of black dots, which is followed by a more complete row of 

 clouded black streaks ; orbicular stigma large, extended so as 

 almost to reach the costa, but only indicated by its rust-red 

 margin ; reniform stigma also large and broad, similarly 

 indicated, but its lower area occupied by a dull black spot ; 

 between these is a deeper purple-red blotch extending as a 

 curved line or central shade to the dorsal margin; costa 

 toward the apex dotted with pale brown ; cilia chestnut-red 

 clouded with purple-red. Hind wings rather small, with the 

 hind margin sinuous, smoky-brown or smoky-black, some- 

 times tinged in its middle portion with purple, and in that 

 case showing a slender angulated central transverse line ; 

 cilia long, purplish-red, shading to paler at the tips. Female 

 quite similar, or with the hind wings more clouded with 

 smoky-brown or smoky-purple ; abdomen rather thicker. 



Underside of the fore wings pale chestnut, with smoky 

 clouding toward the base and dorsal margin ; beyond the 

 middle is a slender undulating darker transverse stripe, 

 followed by another rather more direct, though curved. 

 Hind wings pale purple, dusted with brown and broadly 

 clouded and dusted with chestnut toward the costal area ; 

 central spot a small black-brown crescent ; beyond it is a 

 slender undulating purple-brown transverse stripe. Body 

 and legs dark purple-brown. 



Variable in the depth of the ground colour and in the 

 degree of marbling or rippling of purple-brown ; often this 

 darker colour suffuses the whole surface except the hind 

 margin, and the fore wings become of a very smooth uniform 



