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which shades off to purple on its under side ; no basal line ; 

 firstling double toward the costa, black, formed into thre6 

 curves, but sharply cut off by a stripe of the pale ground 

 colour which passes from the base under the black line to the 

 second transverse line ; this last is single, partly black, 

 partly purple-brown, arranged in a curved series of crescents; 

 subterrainal line white, bordered inwardly by a narrow 

 purple-brown cloud and formed in the middle into a large 

 white W, from which two black wedges run , inward ; 

 orbicular stigma very large, white faintly clouded with 

 yellow and sharply edged with black ; reniform stigma also 

 large, edged on the inner side with deep black, on the outer 

 with purple-brown ; its colour is pale purplish-brown with a 

 large yellowish blotch in its upper half; claviform stigma 

 deep purple-brown edged with black and touching the broad 

 pale dorsal stripe ; from it a black streak runs to the second 

 line ; the space above this streak and around the stigmata, 

 bounded by the first and second lines, is bright purple-brown 

 with darker shades, and forms a broad, conspicuous but 

 incomplete, central bar ; the space between the second and 

 subterminal lines is conspicuously of the pale ground colour, 

 shaded off faintly with purple, more strongly so toward the 

 costa, where are three yellow dots ; the black edges of the 

 two upper stigmata also extend to the costa ; hind margin 

 beyond the subterminal line deep purple-brown shaded off to 

 silvery-grey, and with a row of black streaks ending in 

 minute crescents on the extreme margin ; cilia dark brown 

 dusted with ashy-white. Hind wings dull brown, greyish- 

 white in the middle and toward the base, with the nervures 

 dark brown ; cilia white. Female rather stouter, otherwise 

 quite similar. 



Underside of fore wings purplish-brown dusted with black, 

 and with white along the costa ; central portion filled in with 

 long loose brownish hair-scales ; dorsal margin tinged with 

 white; on the costa toward the apex are three white dots; 

 at the apex a whitish blotch from which arises a darker 



