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hind margin below it straight and nearly perpendicular, but 

 below the middle suddenly bent in to the anal angle ; dorsal 

 margin straight ; colour rich glowing purple-pink disposed 

 in bands with brown shades ; first line forming a rather full 

 curve, indented at the nervures ; purple-brown, shaded off 

 inside, but outwardly sharply defined by a pink- white edging ; 

 second line faintly scalloped near the dorsal margin, thence 

 making a bold sweep outward and bending sharply back near 

 the costa, purple-brown shaded off outside, inwardly dupli- 

 cated by a fine crimson line ; the subterminal line forms the 

 outer margin of the purple-pink colouring ; outside it the 

 marginal space being white with a lilac or pale-crimson 

 tinge ; orbicular stigma only indicated by a white cloud 

 which extends to the costa ; reniform large, dark crimson 

 edged with purplish-black, which also extends to the costa ; 

 space between the stigmata crimson, and all the central band 

 rippled with lines of the same colour ; cilia brownish-white 

 with a faintly browner stripe. Hind wings white to the 

 middle, with the nervures dark brown ; hind-marginal region 

 filled up by a broad smoky-brown band in which the nervures 

 are still rather darker ; extreme hind-margin tinged with 

 purple ; cilia white. Female very similar, rather stouter. 



Underside of the fore wings smoky-brown, flushed with 

 purple, and having a broad purplish-white hinder stripe ; 

 costa clouded with purple ; reniform stigma visible as a 

 blackish cloud. Hind wings white with a broad delicate 

 purple-pink band before the hind margin, and a similar cloud 

 on the costa. Body white, tinged with pink on the sides ; 

 legs and tufts white, similarly tinged in front. 



On the wing in May and June. 



Larva slender, violet-grey with an interrupted black dorsal 

 line bordered on both sides with yellow, and with four large 

 black dots on each segment ; on each side paler, with a broad 

 yellow band above the feet, above which stand five large 

 black dots on each segment ; head round, yellow, with three 



