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basal part of area 2 a spot, and a submarginal spot in lb. These 

 three lie in a straight line across the wing at right angles to 

 costa. There may also be a snbbasal spot in lb. This spot 

 varies considerably. It may be present in one wing and not in 

 the other, or it may even be double in one wing and single in 

 the other. 



H.-w. with a slight black basal sufi'usion, and a hind-marginal 

 border formed of well-marked black arches on a marginal black 

 line, the latter continued as a narrow line right round the inner 

 margin. Black spots variable and more easily oliserved on the 

 underside. 



Underside, f.-w. resembles the upper, but paler. The apical 

 area ochreous with orange internervular rays, and ends of 

 nervules black. A black spot at base of costa, but no apical 

 black. Spots as above. H.-w. creamy ochreous with red splashes 

 between the nervules. Black spots as follows : — A discal row 

 beginning with one in 7 beyond the middle, second in 6 about 

 2 mm. nearer to margin, very rarely a spot in 5, when present 

 small and just below the second, a spot in 4 close to end of cell, 

 a sjMt (sometimes absent) in 3, touching end of cell, another in 

 2 touching median and 2, one in Ic nearer to margin, one in lb 

 further from margin and on a level with that in 2, and usually 

 a minute spot still nearer to base in la. 



A spot in area 9 on base of cell, one in 8 some distance beyond 

 precostal, a subbasal in 7, two spots in cell, one in 5 on middle 

 discocellular, a basal and a subbasal in Ic, ditto in lb, and a 

 basal in la. 



Head black with an orange tuft between the eyes, collar 

 orange, thorax black with red hairs, base of abdomen black with 

 orange lateral spots, remainder orange. Fringes of all win>.'S 

 conspicuously white. Claws unequal. 



^ . Wet season. Ground-colour rather darker. F.-w. with a 

 black basal suffusion reaching the subbasal spot in lb. Spots as 

 in dry form but larger. Apical black 3 to 4 mm. wide. H.-w. 

 with more black basal suffusion, especially in Ic. Discal row 

 of spots all present and nearly all confluent. Marginal black 

 border about 3 mm. wide to nervule 2, where it widens cut to 

 4 mm. There is only a trace of internervular spots of the 

 ground-colour. In extreme examples the black may join the 

 basal suffusion, or even ovemm almost the whole of the h.-w. 



Underside much as in dry season form, but black spots 

 larger, and h.-w. marginal arches heavier. 



9 . Dry season. Expanse 60 to fJ6 mm. F.-w. much more 

 rounded than in ^ . Ground-colour similar but duller. F.-w. 



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