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and waved, and at one point touching the purple stripe, but 

 otherwise edged on both sides with small black or purple-brown 

 clouds; orbicular stigma elongated into a short oblique stripe; 

 reniform also oblique, but in the opposite direction, so that 

 their extreme lower corners are united or very nearly so, 

 both distinctly margined with bright yellow, and inside this 

 with brown enclosing a purple central streak ; claviform 

 stigma large and conspicuous, broadly rounded, deep black 

 or smoky black ; space between the stigmata and the dorsal 

 margin brightly of the purple colour; costa spotted alter- 

 nately with black and purple to the reniform stigma, beyond 

 which it is clouded with brown in which are three yellow 

 marginal dots; along the hind margin is a row of black 

 lunules edged inwardly with a clear purple line ; cilia dark 

 purple-brown prettily looped with paler dashes, and strongly 

 crenulated. Hind wings not large, rounded, grey-brown, 

 paler at the base ; the nervures dark brown ; cilia white with 

 an intersecting brown line. Female similar, with the 

 abdomen stouter, but rapidly tapering off to a long point. 



The colour as described is that of a fresh and perfect 

 specimen, and is quite constant in such when preserved ; but 

 it appears to fade very rapidly in the living insect, so that 

 those which are taken on the wing have commonly no trace 

 of the purple colouring, the ground colour having become 

 pale brown, though the black clouds and markings and the 

 yellow streaks remain the same. In this state it closely 

 resembles the next species, but may be recognised by the 

 connected stigmata. 



Underside of the fore wings dusky pale brown, tinged 

 along the costal margin with purple ; a broad smoky-brown 

 transverse band occupies most of the space beyond the 

 middle ; in it are three or four pale purple costal spots ; cilia 

 light brown with dark brown crescents in the hollows of the 

 crenulations. Hind wings toward the base dusky white 

 dusted with brown, and toward the costa strongly tinged 

 with purple ; central spot large, dark brown : bej'ond it is a 



