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running close up to the thorax, the dark margin narrow, the 

 blue spots almost obliterated on the upper wings, and having 

 a broad very light cilial margin : the sharp cutting of the 

 dark markings in this specimen serves to throw up the bright 

 ground colour more conspicuously, and the broad light cilial 

 margin gives a tone to it which I have not seen in any other 

 specimen. Under it, in contrast to its lightness and clear- 

 ness, is an excessively dark suffused specimen ; sub-basal, 

 central, costal and inner marginal blotches joined together ; 

 the two outer spots confluent, and the outer marginal band 

 and cilia suffused together, forming a broad margin, in which 

 the blue marks are discernible as small round dots ; below 

 that again is another darker still, and even more suffused, 

 but the two outer spots are not joined together, and there is 

 an approach to nerval markings on all the wings, and the 

 blue spots are still fewer and less distinct : in the above two 

 specimens the central costal and the inner marginal dark 

 blotches are joined together by a suffused dark mark; there 

 is a series of large cuneiform blue markings, one within each 

 nerval space, on the sinister or left upper wing ; the ground 

 colour is more generally suffused with dark scales, the nerves 

 well defined, but the outer dark striga is of equal width 

 throughout, and the blue markings less arrow-shaped ; the 

 right under wing dark brown, with three small faint reddish 

 marks pointing upwards from the lower part of the vving, and 

 the ordinary blue markings well developed in the usual way; 

 whilst the left under wing is dark brown, except near the 

 lower part, where there is a narrow deep red patch, through 

 which three dark nerves pass ; on entering the outer marginal 

 striga they become broader and pass through the cilia, giving 

 quite a distinct forked appearance to the wing : the general 

 appearance of this specimen is that of a dark suffused rayed 

 insect. Below this is a specimen in which the two upper 

 wings are as in ordinary specimens as far as the outer dark 

 striga, except that the costal line is very dark and joins the 

 costal blotches together, but the outer dark band is cut 

 through between each nerve with long blue blotchy streaks, 

 the dark streaks between them being very conspicuous ; the 

 under wings are dark dull brown, with a faint reddish suffused 

 shade on one of them, but without any outer marginal line or 

 any of the typical blue spots ; cilia indistinct. We now come 



