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bears an anteriorly directed tuft of brown hairs (secondary sex- 

 mark). Underside : dull brownish-grey. Fore wing : posterior 

 basal area from dorsura to median vein silky and shining ; a diffuse 

 blackish spot below cell near base of interspace 1 ; costal margin 

 above vein 12 brown; cell crossed by four comparatively broad rusty- 

 red sinuate bars, the basal two of which are limited above and below 

 by the subcostal and median veins, the third extends below into 

 the base of interspace 2 and the outer edge of it into interspace 1, 

 the fourth bar covers the discocellulars and extends to the middle 

 of interspace 1 ; beyond these are discal and postdiscal transverse 

 similar bands from a little beyond which the terminal margin 

 is broadly pale rusty-red ; the transverse bars and bauds mentioned 

 above are edged inwardly and outwardly with darker ferruginous 

 red, and the broad rusty-red terminal margin has superposed on it 

 a transverse series of irregular, slender, inwardly pointed rings of 

 the ground-colour, one in each interspace, the ring in interspace 1 

 marked by a dark ferruginous-red spot on its inner side. Hind 

 wing : transversely traversed by five bands similar to those on the 

 fore wing, the inner two or three broken and interrupted, the outer 

 two contorted and bent upwards near the dorsum ; beyond these 

 bands is an inner subterminal, ill-defined, zigzag, rusty-red narrow 

 band edged outwardly with dark brown, an outer subterminal 

 series of dark brown somewhat trident-shaped spots one in each 

 interspace, and a terminal continuous ferruginous line edged very 

 narrowly on the inner side with dark brown. Antennae, head, 

 thorax and abdomen dark brown, the antennae obscurely speckled 

 with white, the thorax with some long bluish hairs ; beneath : the 

 palpi white, thorax and abdomen pale ochraceous white. $. 

 Underside fore wing : posteriorly from base outwards for three- 

 fourths of its length below the subcostal vein and vein 4 pale 

 lilac-purple, the outer margin of this colour very irregular pro- 

 jecting furthest outwards in interspace 1, beyond it the apex is 

 broadly, the costal and terminal margins more narrowly brown; the 

 latter margin carries a subterminal transverse series of pale lilac- 

 purple spots in the interspaces, separated by broad lines of pale 

 ochraceous along the apical portions of the veins ; lastly, on the 

 brown of the apical area is superposed an oblique upper postdiscal 

 short series of three quadrate purple spots. Hind wing : dark 

 brown costal margin above vein 7, dorsal margin below vein 1 

 paler brown, the area between these from base outwards for 

 three-fourths the length of the wing overlaid with pale lilac- 

 purple, beyond which is a subterminal series of very dark brown 

 spots, one in each interspace, edged on the inner side, somewhat 

 broadly on the outer side more narrowly with purple. Underside: 

 ground-colour and markings much as in the tf , but the transverse 

 bands slightly broader and duller in colour. 

 Exp. d ? 36-42 mm. (1-44-1-66"). 



Hub. Sumatra ; Malay Peninsula ; just entering into our limits 

 at the extreme south of Tenasserim. 



