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three similar striae below cell, one immediately beneath the 

 third stria in cell, the other two (whose outer white edging is 

 merged in transverse band) situate one above, the other below, 

 second median nervule ; two faint-blackish marks in trans- 

 verse, glistening- white band, close to costa ; beyond white 

 band, the ground-colour is more ochreous in tint, and marked 

 with a transverse row of triangular, or sub-triangular, blackish 

 marks, outwardly edged with glistening-whitish, (except the 

 two last and largest, below third median nervule, which are 

 contiguous, and edged outwardly with greyish-blue) ; on 

 hind-margin, a greyish mark at extremity of each nervule, 

 and a yellowish tinge between nervules; before transverse 

 white band, and touching it, beneath third median nervule, a 

 large, somewhat quadrate, blackish spot, not with a metallic 

 centre ; the space between it and base dull ochreous. Hind- 

 wing : at base, on costa, an elongate spot, coloured similarly 

 to striae in fore-wing, and like them margined with glistening 

 white ; inner-marginal edge bordered with a black, inwardly 

 white-margined streak near base, where its outline is most 

 strongly convex; obliquely crossing the deeply -grooved portion 

 of wing are three elongate, glistening striae, like those above 

 described, white-margined on both sides, the second and third 

 united by a curve at their lower and outer extremity (where, 

 close to inner-margin, they meet the broad transverse white 

 band), and the third likewise united, by a curve in the 

 opposite direction from the same extremity, to a similar elon- 

 gate streak lying in the fold where the swelling of the side of 

 the groove commences ; this latter streak seems continuous of a 

 transverse row of three short, similarly coloured, contiguous 

 marks from costa, which it meets on median nervure, very 

 little removed from base ; near end of cell is a similar, curved 

 streak, which is continued downwards and outwards by a 

 further streak of the same colours that, touching the streak 

 lying in the fold of wing, suddenly curves upward at its 

 extremity, where it meets white transverse band ; broad, 

 transverse white band more glistening than that in fore-wing, 

 more sharply-defined than on upper-side, continued con- 

 spicuously to inner -marginal edge, a little before anal angle, 

 edged inwardly by a row of metallic-centred, small spots of 

 variable size, (the outer portion of whose white margins is 

 merged with the band itself) as far as third median nervule, 

 and outwardly by an ill-defined, blackish streak, which always 

 becomes obsolete towards costa, about second subcostal 

 nervule ; beyond band, two transverse rows of dull-blackish, 

 sub-lunular marks, edged, the first exteriorly, the second 

 interiorly, with metallic glistening-whitish, thin rays of which, 



