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The expanse of the wings in this species varies from one 

 inch and a half to nearly two inches. The ground-colour is 

 pale yellowish brown, marked irregularly across with several 

 waved brown bars, and the margins of the same coloiir; near 

 the tip is a large blackish brown eye, with a white dot, and 

 there is a broad oblique brown bar extending across the middle 

 of the hind part of these wings, which is absent in the female. 



The base of the hind wings is brown, and they have, fol- 

 lowing the outer margin, a row of three or four eyes, varying 

 in size; the middle ones with a white dot in their centre. 

 Underneath, the markings of the fore wings are nearly corres- 

 ponding to those of the upper side, but the brown bars are 

 not so wide, and the oblique one is wanting. The eye is 

 surrounded by a brown ring, and is accompanied by a smaller 

 satellite. 



The hind wings are neatly freckled with brown and ash- 

 colour, with many waved marks of a darker shade, two of 

 them forming a rather broad waved bar across the middle of 

 these wings, beyond which is a row of six or seven eyes, two, 

 three, and two, that at the inner corner being a double one, 

 and these succeeded by a row of darker waves: the eyes are 

 formed of a brown spot, in which is a black dot, and this 

 again has a white spot, more or less distinct, in its centre. 



The figures arc from specimens in my own cabinet. 



