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TRIFID.E. 3ig 



a, short black longitudinal streak ; first line deep black, 

 double, enclosing a slender white stripe, perpendicular, 

 broken at the nervures and much indented ; second line very- 

 oblique, widely curved, not attaining the costa, but formed 

 into a series of deep black crescents and faintly duplicated, 

 the hollows of the crescents being filled in with white ; sub- 

 terminal line a mere faint white clouding which divides the 

 ,hiud marginal space and is edged inwardly with black wedges 

 or arrow-heads which are largest near the anal angle ; orbicular 

 stigma small, round, greenish-white, ringed with black ; 

 reniform stigma large, elongated into a broad white, or 

 greenish white, crescent which contains a black line and is 

 also edged in front and behind with black ; the orbicular is 

 clasped by a black stripe broken at the nervures and passing 

 to the dorsal margin as an intensified, not to say crystallised, 

 central shade ; costal margin regularly spotted with black 

 and having upon it, before the apex, an angulated oblique 

 black streak ; along the exti'eme hind margin is a row of 

 black triangles, each followed by a smoky-black spot in the 

 cilia, which otherwise are white. Hind wings rather short, 

 rounded, smoky-black, paler at the base ; central spot large, 

 black ; bey^ond it is an obscure curved and waved white 

 transverse line or stripe, and close to the hind margin another, 

 rather distinct toward the anal angle ; extreme edge black ; 

 cilia white, spotted with smoky-black. Female very similar 

 but with still blacker hind wings. 



Underside of the fore wings smoky-white, clouded in the 

 middle with black ; dorsal and hind margins broadly shining 

 white, the nervures in the latter dark ; reniform stigma 

 black ; beyond it is a partial black transverse cloud, and a 

 similar stripe lies before the marginal white band ; cilia as 

 on the upper side. Hind wings glossy white dusted with 

 brown at the base and over the costal area, and with grey 

 over the remaining surface ; central spot large, dull black ; 

 beyond it is an incomplete curved black transverse sti'ipe ; 

 hind margin edged with large black dots. Body and leg 



