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three large dark green spots placed in a triangular form. 

 Fore wings stout and strong, elongated and pointed ; costa 

 slightly but regularly curved throughout ; hind margin 

 slightly rounded ; dorsal margin gracefully rounded and 

 then hollowed so as to render the anal angle extremely 

 prominent. Hind wings short, bluntly pointed, with the 

 hind margin nearly straight, except towards the anal angle 

 which projects in a broad point. Fore wings richly marbled 

 with deeper and paler green, pink, white, and grey. At the 

 extreme base is a round dark green spot, broadly ringed with 

 whitish, then a large blotch of dark velvety green edged with 

 whitish and followed by a broad ill-defined oblique band of 

 pink or pinkish white slightly striped with green ; beyond 

 this the colour is again velvety green, and in the middle of 

 the dorsal margin arises a slender pinkish white line, which, 

 after making a long indentation, curves indistinctly outward 

 through the centre of the wing towards the hind margin, 

 near which it makes a wide bend upwards and proceeds to 

 the costal margin, becoming, in this portion, broader and 

 more distinct. Between the longitudinal portion of this line 

 and the dorsal margin is a broad black and fuscous glistenino- 

 blotch of a sort of curved triangular shape, the basal portion 

 approaching the hind margin of the wing. From the broad 

 bend upward of the pinkish white line another line or stripe, 

 of the same colour but broader, runs back obliquely to the 

 costa, inclosing a somewhat triangular space, shaded with 

 pale green and pinkish white. A white line runs inward 

 from the apex, and under it is a semicircular dark green 

 patch edged with a whitish shading. The nervures beyond 

 the middle of the wing are lined with pinkish white. Cilia 

 green tinged with pink or brown. Hind wings dark smoky 

 grey tinged with brown, with an undulating transverse white 

 line from the costal margin to the anal angle, outside which 

 is a broad stripe of faintly greenish -brown or yellowish-brown, 

 almost yellow at the anal angle, and faintly edged outwardly 

 with black. Marginal area broadly tinged or clouded with 



