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margin fulvous. Between this row and the hind margin, and 

 parallel to it, is a narrow double dark line with slight fulvous 

 interspace. The fringe is a mixture of dark and ochreous scales, 

 those at the ends of the nervures being all dark. No two speci- 

 mens, however, agree exactly. The colour of the costal marginal 

 area varies according to the preponderance of the light scales. 

 The areas I have mentioned as crossing the base of the wing 

 vary greatly in relative size and in outline, and are often more 

 or less obliterated by the extension of the dark colour. 



The rows of ochreous spots beyond them are often suffused 

 with fulvous, thereby approaching var. artemis. The band of 

 fulvous blotches beyond them varies in colour according to the 

 extension, contraction, or obliteration of their ochreous centres. 

 The succeeding row, which I have described as semilunar, are 

 sometimes extended to squarish blotches, at others reduced to 

 specks. The double narrow black band is frequently fused into a 

 single dark marginal stripe, beyond which the only light scales 

 are found in the fringe. This is often distinctly banded, dark at 

 the ends of the nervures, with quite light interspaces. 



The Hind wing. — The base and inner margin are dark. Near 

 the base of the discoidal cell is generally a small ochreous spot, 

 followed by a dark patch, then ochreous, and then fulvous. 

 Behind the discoidal cell (towards the hind margin) runs a row, 

 or series, of elongated ochreous spots, corresponding to, and 

 practically a continuation of, the first row of the fore wing. 

 These become shorter and more quadrate as they near the anal 

 angle. 



Behind the dark line which bounds these is a second row, 

 the most conspicuous, and the most persistent through all 

 varieties, of any of the wing markings. The spots are' large 

 quadrilaterals, roughly speaking, though their hind margins 

 are concave. They are a bright fulvous red, with a well-marked 

 round black spot in the centre. They are practically a continua- 

 tion of the second row of the fore wing. The third row, next 

 . the hind margin, being a continuation of the third row of the 

 fore wing, is composed of semilunar spots, their hind margins 

 being the straight side. The colour, however, differs from that 

 of those on the fore wing by being very pale straw colour without 

 any fulvous or ochreous. Behind them are the dark marginal 

 band (double or single as in that of the forewing) and the fringe. 



Variety is chiefly in the extension of the dark basal area, 

 which reduces or obliterates the coloured spots, and which 

 reduces, but I think never obliterates, the ochreous spots of the 

 first row. In the colour of the red bands, from bright fulvous 

 red to dull orange. In the hind wing, in the extension of the 

 fulvous second row, which sometimes, near the costal margin, 

 obliterates the first row, and in the size of the semilunar spots 

 of the third row, which when enlarged become very striking 



