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small slender black streaks, but duplicated and very per- 

 pendicular ; second line a faint curved series of crescents 

 and small black streaks ; subterminal line merely indicated 

 by a line of cloudy white dots ; orbicular stigma a faint 

 white ring- edged with black ; reniform stigma large and very 

 conspicuous, snow-white edged with black ; claviform stigma 

 broad but very obscure, edged with black ; down all the nervures 

 and especially over the angles of subdivision is a broad thick 

 dusting of lovely soft rich green, and a similar stripe lies 

 along the hind margin, which is edged with small black 

 lunules ; costal margin dotted with white, the largest spot 

 being over the white reniform stigma; cilia unusually 

 developed, purple brown, most beautifully set off by two 

 undulating, intersecting yellowish lines which follow the 

 course of the crenulatious ; at the tip of each nervure is a 

 white dash. Hind wings short and rather broad ; hind 

 margin distinctly crenulated ; colour white, broadly bordered 

 along the hind margin with dark smoky-brown ; central spot 

 large, lunate, smoky purplish-grey ; between it and the hinder 

 dark stripe is a slender dotted purplish-black transverse line ; 

 extreme hind margin edged with purple-black ; cilia long, 

 crenulated, smoky-grey dashed with pale yellow, and having 

 a dark yellow basal line. Antennae of the female also 

 pectinated, but rather more shortly so ; in all other respects 

 the sexes are extremely alike. 



Underside of the fore wings smoky-white to beyond the 

 discal cell, which is filled up with long silky hairs ; place of 

 the reniform stigma indicated by a round black spot in a 

 white cloud ; following it is a narrow smoky-black transverse 

 stripe, and beyond this a very broad similar stripe filling the 

 hind marginal space, but divided by pale nervures ; costa 

 near the apex spotted with white. Hind wings silvery-white, 

 dusted with brown and black, abundantly so along the costal 

 and hind marginal regions ; central spot conspicuously deep 

 black ; beyond it is a central transverse line of black dots, 

 angles and streaks. Body very thickly clothed with scales, 



