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scales, these latter form also diffuse subterminal patches on the 

 white ground-colour in interspaces 3 and 4 ; a preapical oblique 

 short band bright yellow, its margins ill-defined ; in interspaces 1 

 to 3 the black terminal markings on the upperside show through as 

 a greyish-blue shade. Hind wing : suffused with greenish-yellow 

 that leaves only a broad streak in the cell (continued beyond in 

 interspaces 4 and 5) of the white ground-colour apparent; the 

 whole surface of the wing more or less densely irrorated with 

 black scales, these have a tendency to form a broad lower obscure 

 discal dark patch and a broad terminal margin, the space between 

 these two bright yellow ; a spot of bright yellow also in inter- 

 space 6. Antennae black ; the head and thorax anteriorly with 

 long greenish hairs, thorax posteriorly with greyish-blue pile : 

 abdomen black with short white hair-like scales ; beneath : the palpi 

 with blackish hairs, the thorax yellow, abdomen white. $ . Upper- 

 side, fore wing : dark brownish black ; an oval, elongate, broad 

 streak in cell, continued beyond into the base of interspace 4, 

 broad streaks outwardly ill-defined from bases of interspaces 2 

 and 3, a large subterminal spot in interspace 1 and a pretornal 

 short streak along the dorsal margin, white. The amount of white 

 marking is variable in some specimens, nearly the whole of the cell 

 and the greater portion of the basal area of interspace 1 are some- 

 times also white. Hind wing : dark brownish black fading to dusky 

 brownish white posteriorly ; cell, basal half of interspace 4 and an 

 elongate, broad, outwardly pointed streak in interspace 5 white. 

 Underside : similar to that of the J , but the white area on the 

 fore wing more restricted and of a purplish tint, the dusky-black 

 shading on the disc that borders the green on the apical area 

 broader, and the greater portion of interspaces 1 a and 1 also 

 shaded with dusky purplish-black. Hind wing : darker than in the 

 cJ , the veins more pi'otninently bordered with black scaling, the 

 posterior, discal, ill-defined, dark band or patch broader and more 

 conspicuous. Antenna3, head, thorax and abdomen purplish 

 brown, the thorax with some long greyish hairs ; beneath : the 

 palpi and thorax greenish yellow, abdomen whitish. 



Dry-season brood. <5 Upperside : similar to the upperside in 

 the wet-season brood, but the black on the apex and termen of the 

 fore wing not nearly so broad, on the latter often not reaching 

 vein 1 ; on the hind wing the black is reduced to a sparse 

 powdering of black scales along the termen. Underside : similar 

 to that of the wet-season brood but the greenish-yellow suffusion 

 replaced entirely by ochraceous brown; on the hind wing the white 

 markings of the wet-season form replaced by a paler ochraceous 

 shade than on the rest of the wing; the veins all broadly bordered 

 with irrorated black scaling ; the discal obscure transverse band 

 more or less as in specimens of the wet-season brood, but often 

 obsolescent. Antennae black, head and thorax anteriorly ochraceous 

 brown, thorax medially and posteriorly with long bluish-grey pile, 

 abdomen black with short white hair-like scaling ; beneath : the 



