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chestnut-red ; eyes black, back lashes abundant, dark red ; 

 head densely covered with scales, the tufts divided by a deep 

 channel on the top and again by a transverse one just below 

 the antennas, brilliant orange-chestnut ; thorax purplish- 

 chestnut or coppery-red and densely crested at the back, the 

 long erect scales tipped with darker purple-brown ; fas- 

 cicles slender, dusky yellowish-white ; abdomen purple-brown 

 with long yellow- white hair-scales on the basal segments, 

 almost concealed by which are short chestnut-coloured dorsal 

 crests on the first two or three segments ; lateral tufts 

 spreading, anal tuft small, all purple-brown. Fore wings 

 pointed, not very broad, costa nearly straight, hollowed a 

 little in the middle, faintly arched before the apex, which is 

 sharply angulated ; hiud margin oblique, very nearly straight 

 but rounded off at the anal angle ; dorsal margin very grace- 

 fully curved ; colour rich dark tawny or orange-chestnut 

 shaded with burnished gold ; a golden dash from the base is 

 shaded off along the subcostal region ; another from the dorsal 

 margin points obliquely across the wing, and indicates the 

 usual first line, which otherwise is hardly perceptible ; at the 

 top of this golden streak is a horizontal rather pear-shaped 

 or ovate spot of brilliant gold, and outside it another rather 

 smaller ; between these runs a faint slender dark chestnut 

 line from the dorsal margin representing a central shade, and 

 beyond them another, indicating the second line, but only 

 perceptible near the margins ; outside this, in the costal half 

 of the wing, is another brilliant gold marking or spot, narrower 

 but shaded off in fainter gold to the apex ; subterminal line 

 a faint obscure series of dark chestnut angles ; cilia dark 

 purple. Hind wings rather large, dark smoke colour with a 

 purple flush ; nervures dark brown ; cilia light purple. 

 Female extremely similar. 



Underside of the fore wings smoky-black with the costal 

 and hind-marginal regions purple, and two obscure smoky- 

 black transverse bars through the costal area. Hind wings 

 smoky pale yellow strongly shaded with purple, especially so 



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