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the base to considerably above the anal angle upon the hind 

 margin; this at its origin near the base of the wing is 

 obliquely crossed by two deeper chocolate streaks which, 

 with further long angulated faint tawny loops, form the first 

 line; in the middle of the dorsal margin are two white 

 crescents which, continued as excessively faint tawny streaks 

 and dots, form a much angulated second line ; with these 

 faint exceptions there are no traces of the ordinary pattern 

 of markings ; above the middle of the hind margin are three 

 or four cloudy chocolate-red streaks ; outside these, along the 

 extreme margin, is a regularly scalloped complete white line 

 edged with reddish-black ; on the costa toward the apex are 

 two or three white dots ; cilia pale brown with a slender purple- 

 brown line running into the point of each crenulation, below 

 the middle of the hind margin also dusted and streaked 

 with black, and continued along the greater portion of the 

 dorsal margin, where they are streaked with red-black and 

 frosted with black and white. Hind wings small, rather 

 pointed at the apex; hind margin sinuous and deeply 

 scalloped; white, much shaded with smoky reddish-brown, 

 which becomes dark at the apex and along the hind margin ; 

 nervures of the same colour, as is also the faint central 

 lunule ; cilia pale brown with the tips white, the two colours 

 divided by a brown-black line, but toward the anal angle 

 wholly white. Female accurately similar, hardly stouter. 



Underside of the fore wings smoky-brown, shading off to 

 pearly-white toward the dorsal margin; discal cell filled 

 with long fluffy hair-scales; costal margin black-brown, 

 dotted with white toward the apex; cilia purple-brown. 

 Hind wings white, dusted along the costa and hind margin 

 with dark brown; nervures similar; cilia white clouded 

 with black-brown. Body pale reddish-brown ; legs whitish- 

 drab, streaked with tawny ; leg-tufts large, purplish-brown. 



Not variable, except in a slight degree in the depth of 

 ground colour and of the dark stripes. 



On the wing at the end of April and in May. 



