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of the wing, near the front edge; some of the spots from the 

 under side shew ftxintly through in some lights. The hind 

 ■wings are of the like colour and markings, only that the 

 outside black border is indented and equally wide all along, 

 cxcei)t at the uppermost part, where it is narrower; the whole 

 of the inner edge, from the base downwards, is dusky black. 



Underneath, the fore wings are pale orange, the outside 

 edge blue ash grey; there are two large and one small black 

 spots, jilaced horizontally, in a row from near the base, their 

 edges bordered with a line of still paler orange; the inner one 

 is the smallest: these are succeeded by a transverse row of 

 seven others, of smaller comparative sizes, three and four, and 

 there is a row of small fliint black crescents on the inner 

 edge of the grey band. The hind wings are silvery greyish 

 blue, brightest near the base, followed by a broad oblong orange 

 bar, which again is edged by the grey and a row on each 

 side of black dots, the inner ones larger than the outer; on 

 the grey part the black oblong mark shews through, there 

 being within it five or six black dots, one near the upper 

 edge large, and an irregular row of about nine others near 

 the orange band. 



In the female the copper on the fore wings is of a deeper 

 colour, with a wide dusky black border running over part of 

 the front edge: the lower part of these wings near the base 

 is also dusky black, and there are two large black spots placed 

 horizontally near the front edge, and a transverse row of six 

 or seven other ones towards the margin, the middle ones being 

 large and elongated. In the hind wings the copper is almost 

 entirely hid by blackish brown, excepting a broad bar of 

 copper near the outer edge, indented by the black on its 

 outer margin, and running up into the black, which it intersects 

 in narrow streaks: the outer edge is bluish white. 



The caterpillar is described by the late Mr. J. F. Stephens as 

 of a bright green colour, with innumerable white dots. 



The chrysalis was "at first green, then pale ash-coloured, with 

 a dark dorsal line, and two abbreviated white ones on each 

 side, and lastly sometimes deep brown." 



