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white stripe or blotch down each shoulder to the base of the 

 fore wing ; abdomen rather stout, dull yellow at the base, 

 shading into dull crimson behind and at the sides, and having 

 a row of small black dots down the middle of the back. 

 Fore wings ample, rather narrow at the base, but rapidly 

 broadening, with the margins and apex all rounded ; shining 

 velvety brown-black with creamy-white spots — one large and 

 wedge-shaped in the middle of the base ; two, also large, 

 somewhat ovate, before the middle ; two smaller, placed 

 more obliquely, just beyond the middle but rather near the 

 margins ; beyond these two more, very large, almost forming 

 a straight band from the costa to the anal angle ; and a single 

 smaller ovate or rather angulated spot close to the middle of 

 the hind margin ; occasionally one or two whitish dots are 

 placed above this last towards the costa ; cilia short, black- 

 brown. Hind wings rather long and broad with rounded apex 

 and hind margin ; bright yellow, or pale orange, with black 

 spots, of which two or three are placed in a straight line 

 transversely before the middle, and three or four across from 

 the middle of the costal margin to the anal angle, while the 

 whole apical space is occupied by a large black blotch more 

 or less broken up by one or more squared or irregularly 

 shaped orange spots at the margin ; cilia yellow or black 

 according to the colour of the adjacent portion. Female 

 similar, but much stouter and rather larger in expanse. 



Underside of the fore wings dark smoky brown with the 

 spots as on the upper side, but having the costa, especially 

 toward the apex, ornamented with a stripe of brilliant scarlet • 

 hind wings deep orange with the black spots as on the upper 

 side ; the apical black blotch more smoky, and a broad ill- 

 defined stripe of rich scarlet along the costal margin and 

 round the apex, sometimes continued along the hind margin ; 

 thorax and abdomen black, scarlet at the sides ; legs black 

 with a scarlet stripe down the front of the tibias. 



Variable in the size of the creamy spots of the fore wino-s 

 especially in the case of those near the base, which occasion- 

 ally coalesce and produce a sort of triangular or Y-shaped 



