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glistening white scales ; a large bright chestnut-coloured 

 crest on the back of the first segment, smaller ones on the 

 three following segments, black ; lateral and anal tufts 

 reddish mixed with smoky-black ; fore wings elongated, 

 rather broadened behind ; costa very slightly curved, but 

 becoming more so toward the apex, which is bluntly 

 rounded, almost angulated ; hind margin curved, crenulated, 

 and rather hollowed towards the anal angle ; dorsal margin 

 straight to near the base ; colour blue-black with a purplish 

 gloss ; basal line indicated by two pairs of clouded deep 

 black spots ; first line deep black, disposed in a series of 

 rough crescents ; second line very neat and pretty, a series 

 of short deep black crescents followed by a row of deep 

 black dots on the nervures, also preceded by an angulated 

 parallel black line from below the reniform stigma ; sub- 

 terminal line obscure, yellow, broken up into an irregular 

 row of yellow dots, some of which are preceded by deep 

 black wedges ; orbicular stigma round but very obscure, of a 

 slightly bluer shade of the ground colour ; reniform stigma 

 large, conspicuous, shining white, edged with deep black, 

 and containing a uniform brownish cloud. (This stigma 

 is the one conspicuous marking on the otherwise black 

 fore wings.) Clavifoira stigma obscure, but edged with deep 

 black ; on the costa is a whitish spot just beyond the 

 reniform stigma, and following it three white dots ; cilia 

 blue-black, very faintly dusted and divided with paler. 

 Hind wings greyish- white with the nervures grey-brown, 

 but the whole outer space, beyond the middle, occupied by 

 a very broad, ill-defined black brown marginal band, the 

 inner edge of which is hollowed; this band contains an 

 obscure white dash within the anal angle ; cilia white, 

 clouded with dark brown. Female with the fore wings 

 slightly broader, and the body stouter, otherwise quite 

 similar. 



Underside of the fore wings glossy, smoky black shaded 

 with paler ; reniform stigma indicated by a large yellowish 



