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spots, the outer row parallel to hind-margin, the inner some- 

 what sinuate the spots of the outer row thinner and more 

 lunular than those of the inner ; neither row extending 

 below suhmedian nervure, and both with the spot next costa 

 often indistinct ; between the two rows is another of dark 

 spots, more apparent in $ (whose ground-colour is paler). 

 Hind-wing: basal portion, to beyond extremity of discoidal 

 cell, glistening-white ; along submedian nervure, from base, 

 a dense clothing of silky, white hair, not extending to anal 

 angle ; rest of wing ferruginous, inclining to ochreous near 

 costa and next basal white ; two rows of ochreous spots in 

 fore-wing indistinctly continued in this wing, the row of dark 

 spots distinctly so, diminishing in size from subcostal nervure 

 as far as second or third median nervule ; bordering hind- 

 margin, a row of thin, dull-blue lunules, of which the three 

 next anal angle are the most conspicuous, being outwardly 

 very thinly white-edged ; tail at extremity of first median 

 nervule brownish-ferruginous, slightly widened at its tip, 

 from two to three lines in length. UNDER-SIDE. Very 

 variable : dull greyish-brown, inclining to ferruginous, with 

 pale-green nervures ; outer portions of wings more or less 

 glistening (as in Nymphalis Neanthes, Hewits.) Fore-wing : 

 crossing discoidal cell, three transverse, more or less distinct, 

 strongly waved and angulated, grey lines, sometimes defined 

 with glistening-silvery outwardly, the third extending almost 

 to submedian nervure ; a little beyond cell, a fourth, similar, 

 longer, interrupted line, about middle, also nearly reaching 

 submedian nervure ; beyond middle, a slightly-curved, trans- 

 verse, continuous, dark -grey streak, glistening -silvery exter- 

 nally, from costa to below third median nervule; beyond 

 this, the surface is more or less washed with glistening-silvery, 

 which does not, however, extend to hind-margin, except at 

 apex and at anal angle ; parallel to hind-margin, a row of 

 more or less indistinct, dark-grey spots, from costal edge to 

 submedian nervure. Hind-wing : before middle, three trans- 

 verse, much-angulated, zic<-zac, grey lines, similar to those in 

 fore-wing the two outer lines sometimes extending nearly 

 to inner-margin ; transverse streak of fore-wing continued 

 completely across this wing, from costa beyond middle, to 

 inner- margin immediately before anal angle ; surface beyond 

 streak much washed with glistening- silvery (usually more so 

 than in fore-wing) ; an imperfect, greyish, ferruginous-ringed 

 ocellus, next streak, close to costa, and two similar, more 

 imperfect ocelli, between anal angle and second median 

 nervule; bordering hind-margin, a row of rather indistinct, 

 glistening, greyish lunules. 



