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but edged toward the dorsal margin by a parallel white 

 crescentic streak, backed by a black cloud ; subterminal line 

 a faint row of brownish-white dots edged inwardly by small 

 cloudy dark chocolate spots ; orbicular and reniform stigmata 

 large, and both somewhat rounded, pale purple-brown ; clavi- 

 form stigma very broad, faintly edged with black ; basal 

 space above the black streak rounded and rather pale ; space 

 beyond the second line also pale, forming a broad pale choco- 

 late stripe from the apex to below the middle ; the principal 

 uervures all strongly and broadly dusted with brilliant 

 metallic green, the smaller nervures and the dorsal area more 

 faintly so. At a short distance from the apex are two 

 pointed black streaks, and nearer the anal angle three more, 

 the latter arising from the extreme margin, which is edged 

 by slender black crescents and preceded by a row of glossy 

 green spots ; cilia unusually long, crenulated, pale chocolate- 

 brown, clouded with darker. Hind wings smoky-brown with 

 a purplish gloss, faintly paler at the base ; beyond the middle 

 is a slender smoky-black transverse stripe, edged outwardly 

 with dirty-white ; nearer the hind margin is a row of dusky- 

 white spots, that nearest the anal angle hollowed and em- 

 bracing a black spot ; cilia pale chocolate-brown, dusted with 

 whitish-brown. Female very similar, but with simple an- 

 tennae, and the abdomen stouter and showing but little of 

 the lateral and anal tufts. Hind wings rather darker. 



Underside of the fore wings smoky chocolate-brown ; 

 reniform stigma paler ; from the costa toward the apex are 

 four short yellowish-white oblique streaks ; hind wings 

 brownish-white abundantly dusted with chocolate-brown ; 

 central spot brown ; beyond it is a slender undulating 

 transverse grey-brown stripe ; hind margin broadly clouded 

 with smoky-brown. Body golden brown with purple-brown 

 tufts ; leg-tufts paler ; legs pale purple-brown, barred with 

 black. 



In its ordinary tjqjical form not very variable, but slightly 

 so in the depth of its chocolate clouding, more so in the 



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