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margin is often tinged with white toward the base. In the 

 middle of the base beneath the median nervure is often a 

 short black longitudinal streak or spot — but frequently it is 

 brown or merged in the dark ground colour — just outside it 

 on the costa and the median nervure is a slight indication of 

 a black basal line : first line deep black, cut off by the white 

 subcostal stripe, but scalloped, broken, and edged inwardly 

 with white ; second line oblique, black, also cut off from the 

 costa, interrupted but nearly straight, edged outwardly with 

 white ; orbicular stigma rather large, white, ringed with 

 black and centred with brown ; reniform stigma white 

 margined with black and enclosing a long, curved, grey, black- 

 edged streak ; rest of the discal cell, before and between the 

 stigmata, filled up with deep black ; clavif orm stigma usually 

 very distinct, edged with deep black ; a black streak lies 

 beneath the reniform stigma, and three or four more, wedge- 

 shaped and edged with white, beyond the second line, the 

 base of each wedge being in contact with the subterminal line, 

 which is whitish, distinct, undulating, and partly broken up 

 into spots ; space beyond it dark purple-grey, or dark brown, 

 with minute black lunules along the extreme margin ; cilia 

 grey, yellowish at their base. Hind wings rather ample, 

 white at the base and often so in the central area ; nervures 

 grey, central spot indistinct, grey, forming a long crescent 

 across the discal cell ; apical and hind marginal region 

 narrowly, or broadly, shaded with brownish-grey ; extreme 

 marginal line brown ; cilia white, shaded at their base with 

 light brown. Female slightly stouter, and sometimes with 

 the fore wings a very little narrower ; hind wings more 

 suffused with grey ; otherwise similar. 



Underside of the fore wings dark grey-brown with con- 

 siderable iridescence on the basal half, but with a narrow 

 space of long dull scales in the discal cell, beyond which is a 

 large cloudy-black spot or blotch, sometimes divided by a 

 pale dash ; hind marginal region dark grey or dark brownish- 

 grey, rather shining ; extreme margin edged with black 

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