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lighter mark, but sometimes it is entirely wanting. The outside 

 margin is elegantly bordered with white. The hind wings have 

 a round orange dot at their lower inside corner, and another at 

 the base of the tail. 



Underneath, the ground colour is fine orange yellow, the 

 edge Avith a brighter border; the dark oblong mark shews 

 through, and outside it is a long narroAV wedge-shaped mark, 

 its base arising at the front edge and running two-thirds across 

 the wing. It is edged all round with a very slender dusky 

 line, and this again on the outside by a narrow white one. 

 The hind wings are of a still richer brown colour, especially 

 at the lower inside corner: a darker orange wedge-shaped 

 bar, edged with a narrow dusky line, and this by another 

 narrow white one, runs almost entirely across them, its wide 

 end beginning at the middle of the front upper edge. The 

 tail is bordered with a black edge, which proceeds to the 

 inner corner. 



The female is of the same glossy brown colour, and has a 

 large orange brown patch between the middle and the outside 

 corner, and running nearly across them, gradually narrowing; 

 at the upper inner corner of the patch is a dark oblong mark, 

 as in the male. The hind wings have the like orange dot, and 

 the mark on the tail, but rather more extensive. Underneath, 

 she resembles the male. 



The caterpillar is light green, with paler oblique lines on 

 the sides, and straight ones down the back. 



The chrysalis is brown, with darker marks. 



