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1. A. iris, L. — Expause -I'l to o iuches. Dark brown; 

 fore wiugs with a white central baud, and white spots ; hind 

 wings having one black spot, ringed with orange. Upper 

 side of the male shot with brilliant purple. 



Hind margin of hind wings scalloped ; of fore wings slightly 

 30. Dark brown, clouded with blackish. Fore wings of the 

 male with a row of three white spots before the middle, the 

 second one being crescentic ; an oblique row of five beyond the 

 middle, and two small ones near the apex. Hind wiugs with a 

 central white band, which tapers of! to a point, below which 

 is a blue-centred, orange-ringed, black spot. Anal angle 

 with two orange streaks or dashes. Parallel with the hind 

 margin of fore and hind wings is a cloudy, faintly orange- 

 grey, stripe, interrupted by the darker nervures. Cilia ex- 

 tremely short, whitish, interrupted with dark brown. Whole 

 upper surface of all the wings shot with brilliant purple. 

 Female larger, browner, destitute of the purple flush, with 

 the white markings similar but broader, and an additional 

 white dot near the hind margin of the fore wing. 



Under side. — Fore wings richly marbled with reddish cho- 

 colate, blackish, and grey ; having the white spots as on the 

 upper side, and two black ones near the costal margin ; also, 

 near the anal angle, a blue spot, ringed with black, and 

 enclosed in a broad rust-coloured circle, which is broken by 

 two of the white spots. Hind wings pale olive brown, with 

 broad, somewhat wedge-shaped, central white stripe, edged 

 inside, and broadly outside, with chocolate. At the lower 

 extremity of this outer chocolate stripe is the orange-ringed 

 black spot, as on the upper side, but with a larger blue pupil. 

 There is also a dusky, pale, submarginal band to all the wings. 

 Extreme anal angle orange. 



Usually a constant species in colour and markings, such 

 rare variation as occurs being shown in the depth of the 

 ground colour and in the obliteration of wliite markings. 

 This last phase of variation is known under the name of 

 var. lole. 



