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rather gracefully curved ; ground colour white faintly clouded 

 with brown, but very much obscured by dark markings of an 

 olive-brown or black-brown colour, the nervures especially 

 white ; basal line indicated by two black dots, or short streaks, 

 edged with white ; first line most visible in its middle portion . 

 where it is oblique, black, and rather thick, its remainder 

 dark brown ; second line a somewhat obscure series of black - 

 brown dashes between nervures, but broken outside the 

 reniform stigma ; subterminal line only visible as the interval 

 between an olive-brown oblique transverse band divided by 

 white nervures, and a creamy-white irregular stripe close to 

 the hind margin, which last is edged narrowly with olive- 

 brown ; orbicular stigma large, olive-brown, edged with 

 black, joined to a similar large spot below the median nervure 

 which appears to be the claviform stigma ; reniform of the 

 same colour, large and conspicuous ; costal margin clouded 

 with olive-brown ; cilia white shot with brown and margined 

 inwardly by two rows of black streaks enclosing white dots. 

 Hind wings hollowed beneath the apex ; creamy-white, 

 clouded at the base, on the dorsal margin, and on the nervures, 

 with brown ; central spot large and conspicuous, dull black ; 

 across the middle of the wing is a slender irregular olive- 

 brown line, immediately followed by a very broad smoky- 

 black band which occupies the hinder half of the wing but 

 contains three or four creamy- white spots ; cilia white, spotted 

 with black-brown. Female quite similar. 



Underside of all the wings shining creamy-white ; fore 

 wings with two large black spots before the middle, and a 

 larger one beyond it, followed by a clouded black band ; hind 

 marginal region streaked and clouded with smoky-black. 

 Hind wings as on the upper side but the markings not so 

 dark, the pale spots in the marginal band larger and coales- 

 cing. Body and leg-tufts white ; legs brown. 



Rather variable in the size of the dark spots and 

 bands. 



On the wing in July and August. Abroad it is said to 



