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the latter they unite and sometimes extend as a black line to the 

 tornus. Hind wing : uniform, except for a series of black terminal 

 spots, which in some specimens are comparatively large and con- 

 nected together by an anticiliary slender black line, in others 

 minute, more or less obsolescent, unconnected dots. Underside: 

 white. Fore wing : base of cell washed with sulphur-yellow ; 

 spot on discocellulars as on the upperside ; apical carmine area of 

 the upperside represented by an ochraceous-pink patch, not mar- 

 gined with black, but similar in shape and position ; in some 

 specimens this is more or less suffused with greyish scales ; in all, 

 it is crossed near its inner edge by an obliquely-placed series of 

 four or five spots that vary in colour from pale ferruginous to 

 black. In some specimens there are two terminal diffuse black 

 spots, one each at the ends of veins 2 and 3. Hind wing : the 

 ground-colour generally lightly, often heavily, suffused with 

 ochraceous pink, sometimes pure white ; a small spot ou the 

 discocellulars pale ferruginous to black, sometimes annular and 

 centred with carmine ; followed by a curved macular discal band 

 that also varies in colour from pale ferruginous to black and has 

 the posterior spots often obsolescent, or even completely absent ; 

 a series of minute black dots at the apices of the veins that runs 

 to the termen, and may or may not be connected by a slender 

 black anticiliary line. Antennae pale brown, speckled with white ; 

 head, thorax and abdomen black ; head and thorax anteriorly 

 clothed with brown, sometimes greyish-black hairs ; beneath : 

 palpi, thorax and abdomen white. 



$ . Upperside : white ; base of wings lightly, often heavily, irro- 

 rated with greyish-black scales. In some specimens the irroration is 

 very scanty, in others it occupies fully a third of the wings from 

 base and extends as a broad band parallel to the dorsum on the hind 

 wing. Fore wing : an apical carmine patch as in the male but 

 smaller, sometimes reduced to a mere row of preapical pale rosy 

 streaks, but always bordered externally, and generally internally 

 also, by black of varying width. In some specimens the inner black 

 border is very narrow, in others broad, and in a very feAv entirely 

 absent. The outer border again in some specimens is inwardly 

 festooned, and may be either broad or comparatively narrow. Disco- 

 cellular spot as in the tf but larger, followed by an anterior, 

 postdiscal, macular, curved, black band, the upper spots of which 

 cross the carmine area, or when the carmine area is reduced to short 

 streaks the band crosses the black internal edging to it, showing up 

 in a darker tint than the edging itself; lastly, a black transverse, 

 somewhat diffuse, spot in interspaces 1 and 2. Hind wing : with 

 a dusky spot on the discocellulars, a black, macular, discal, curved, 

 more or less incomplete band, and a terminal row of black spots that 

 in some specimens are connected and form a continuous band. All 

 these markings are generally diffuse. Underside, fore wing : white, 

 suffused with sulphur-yellow at base of cell and with ochraceous 

 (in some specimens ochraceous-grey, in others ocliraceous-red) on 

 apical area ; spot on discocellulars, the postdiscal macular band 



