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from tlie base occupies the costal region and half the discal 

 cell to beyond the middle of the wing, where it shades off to 

 the ground colour ; from the middle of the base of the wing 

 this stripe is edged by a black shaded line, interrupted by the 

 two upper stigmata, both of which are small and united to 

 the pale stripe ; the orbicular very small, round, yellowish- 

 white, sometimes dark centred ; the reniform larger, narrow, 

 much bent, white or yellowish, sometimes enclosing a dark 

 shade. Ordinarily no trace is apparent of the transverse 

 lines, except in some individuals, of the subterminal, which is 

 indicated by a row of faintly yellowish cloudy spots or dashes 

 running inward between the nervures. In these the nervures 

 are rather darkened, but in many examples neither the dark- 

 ening of nervures nor the subterminal line is perceptible. 

 Much more rarely the second transverse line shows itself as a 

 faint curved row of blackish dots ; toward the apex are two 

 or three yellow costal dots edged with a blackish-purple cloud ; 

 cilia purple, with a yellowish basal line. Hind wings pure 

 clear white except a faint dusting of purplish scales on the 

 nervures and costal margin ; cilia white, tinged at the apex 

 with purplish. Female quite similar, except that the hind 

 wings are tinged toward the front margin with grey. 



Underside of the fore wings smoky-purplish, more purple 

 along the costal and hind margins, whitish along the dorsal 

 margin ; reniform stigma indicated by a blackish streak, 

 immediately beyond which is a faint smoky-grey transverse 

 cloudy stripe ; costa toward the apex spotted with yellow ; 

 hind wings white, brightly tinted along the costal margin 

 with light purple, in which beyond the middle is the com- 

 mencement of a fainter greyish transverse stripe ; central 

 spot small, dark grey. Body and legs, with the tufts, dark 

 purple-brown. 



Not very variable, beyond the presence or absence of the 

 outer transverse lines as already described, but occasionally 

 the collar is of the pale tint of the costal stripe of the fore 

 wings, which thus becomes continuous. Specimens from the 



