1 82 LEPIDOPTERA. 



colour rich bright purple-red, marbled with deeper and 

 paler ; basal line very obscure, abbreviated and notched, 

 yellowish ; first line nearly perpendicular, faintly curved, 

 pale yellow, edged on each side with a deep shade of the 

 ground colour ; second line placed hardly beyond the middle 

 of the wing, sometimes interrupted by the edge of the reni- 

 form stigma, less oblique than usual, obscurely yellow, edged 

 with dark red, and, when clearly visible, seen to consist of a 

 series of rather flat curves; subterminal line very distinct, 

 bright yellow, irregular and disposed in curves of various 

 breadth, but forming in the middle an extremely flat and 

 rather inconspicuous W ; above the anal angle, however, this 

 line expands into a broad yellow spot edged inwardly with 

 dark red-brown ; this spot is the one conspicuous marking 

 on the wing ; orbicular and reniform stigmata of a pale 

 shade of the ground colour, and edged with rich deep red ; 

 claviform stigma only occasionally visible as a curved or 

 angulated streak ; hind margin and cilia very glossy pale 

 purple, dappled with darker. Hind wings rather small, 

 whitish at the base with brown nervures, a broad cloudy 

 smoky-brown band beyond the middle ; hind margin clouded 

 with the same ; cilia pale purple or purplish-white. Female 

 quite similar except that the body is stouter, and sometimes 

 the hind wings are more uniformly smoky-brown. Under- 

 side of the fore wings purple-red, shading off to pale grey at 

 the base and dorsal margin ; costa near the tip, and also the 

 hind margin, dotted with paler; a faint, cloudy, darker or 

 greyer, transverse stripe lies beyond the middle. Hind 

 wings grey-brown with the costa broadly purple-red and the 

 hind margin more purple-grey ; central spot large, smoky- 

 brown ; beyond it is a transverse purple-grey stripe. Abdo- 

 men and legs bright purple-red. 



Very variable in tone of colouring, from the brightest, 

 richest purple-red, to dull clay colour and very much paler 

 shades, or tinged with brown or yellow or even with dark 

 grey ; also quite uncertain in the degree of mottling, which 



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