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there is an indistinct series of white crescents, be- 

 yond this a row of faint yellow spots, and the fringe 

 is wliite, interrupted with black. The secondary 

 wings are tawny brown at the base and inner side, 

 and black anteriorly, the remaining portion ochrey- 

 red, spotted with black, the latter forming three rows 

 behind ; the first consisting of five round spots, some 

 of them indistinctly ocelliform ; the second of a se- 

 ries of crescents, and the third of pretty large patches 

 placed on the projecting points of the hinder border. 

 The anal angle is ornamented with a pretty larg« 

 black spot, with a streak of blue behind. On the 

 under side, the primary wings are whitish at the base, 

 and have a large spot of that colour anteriorly, in 

 addition to those that correspond to the upper side ; 

 the tip is light brown, the two smallest spots en- 

 circled with black, which makes them resemble 

 ocelli ; and the whole disk is tinged with a beautiful 

 tint of carmine, deepest towards the base, and inter- 

 mixed with ochre-yellow externally. The under 

 side of the hinder wings is delicately variegated with 

 light-brown, greyish-white, and yellow; the darker 

 portions intersected with white ramifications, in such 

 a manner as to produce in some places the appear- 

 ance of leaves springing from a stem. Towards the 

 hinder extremity there is a row of five ocelli, the 

 outer one small and obsolete, that next to it and the 

 innermost one being largest, and powdered with blua- 

 in the middle, the intermediate two powdered with 

 green : a row of purplish-blue crescents is placed be- 



