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the fore wings is crossed from the costa by four slender 

 blackish elongated spots, frequently coalescing in pairs ; each 

 of the first pair connected with a double similar blotch reach- 

 ing the dorsal margin ; beyond is a deeply elbowed and 

 curved stripe, consisting of spots, joining at the nervures, 

 and beyond, two more stripes, curved in a less degree and 

 more slender, all blackish, the last being near the dark hind 

 margin. Hind wings to near the middle having a number of 

 looped black markings, bounded by a transverse, curved 

 black stripe, beyond which at some distance is another, the 

 intermediate space, divided by the dark nervures, forming a 

 distinct row of oblong spots of the tawny ground colour. 

 Near the hind margin is another black stripe, deeply indented 

 and hollowed between the nervures, upon which it coalesces 

 with the dark margin, the intermediate spaces of ground 

 colour being crescentic. The pale spaces before this dark 

 stripe are squared, and each contains a black spot or dot. The 

 whole of the wings thus have a chequered appearance much 

 like that of the preceding species. Cilia white, interrupted by 

 black at the nervures, so as to appear scalloped. Sexes similar, 

 female rather larger, and slightly paler. Under side of the 

 fore wings fulvous, with the markings of the upper side 

 faintly indicated, the apex cream colour, and the hind 

 margin sharply black spotted. Of hind wings %vith alternate 

 transverse stripes of creamy-yellow and reddish-fulvous, 

 sharply divided by beautifully indented black lines and 

 crossed by the slender faintly blackish nervures, each of the 

 creamy bands and the outer fulvous band regularly dotted 

 with black. Cilia also spotted with black. Many years ago 

 the late Mr. F. Bond reared, from larpffi found in the Isle of 

 Wight, several specimens in which the black dots of the 

 central creamy band were enlarged and extended into oval 

 inky-looking spots, each of which nearly filled its allotted 

 portion of the band ; some few of these spots were tailed so as 

 resemble tadpoles. This resemblance is exceedingly odd ; in 

 a specimen which he gave me there appears to be a line of 



