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larger black spot near the tip, two rows of six dots, the inner 

 larger and rounder, and the outer smaller and of a triangular 

 shape, run across the wing; the margin is similarly marked 

 with black dots on a narrow black line, which runs all round 

 the outside and the base of these wings. The hind wings are 

 marked in a very similar manner, and their base is also black, 

 running into the wing, and forming the inside bordering of 

 the central markings. 



-Underneath, the fore wings are much the same as on the 

 upper side, but the ground colour is more dull, and the black 

 marks, which shew through, are not so large; the tip is of a 

 paler hue than the rest of the wings, and it is divided by a 

 reddish ferruginous waved bar, running out below to the edge 

 in a loop. The hind wings are very elegantly marked with 

 reddish ferruginous, buff, and greenish straw-colour, in the 

 way of waved bars, formed by a wide band of the former mottled 

 with the latter, this by one of the greenish straw-colour, and 

 this by one of the latter, the base being also of the greenish 

 straw-colour; the central pale bar has one large spot of silver 

 placed diagonally across it, of an oblong, quadrangular, uneven 

 shape, another inside it of an oblong form, placed upright, 

 wedge-shaped at each end, and another divided in three by 

 the veins of the wing running from near the base of the former 

 to the upper edge of the wing, near the outside corner; between 

 these three patches and the lower corner is another horizontal 

 one, divided by the red, near its outer and smaller portion, 

 and a row of crescents runs round the edge of the wing, the 

 middle ones silver, followed by a thin reddish line, itself 

 margined by a streak of the greenish straw-colour, which forms 

 the outside margin. 



The caterpillar is black, with a pale stripe along the sides. 

 The spines are half yellow, and two on the neck are longer 

 than the others, and project forward. 



The chrysalis is of a dull grey colour. 



This species is liable to vary considerably. Mr. Stephens 

 describes one specimen in which the upper surface of the wings 

 was whitish. Another, recorded as a separate species by the 



