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its lower extremity connected by a wliite fascia with the renit'orm, 

 which is U-shaped, open above, with brown centre and white 

 annuhis ; postmedial line double tilled in with white, Btronp;ly 

 bent outwards below costa, incurved, oblicjue and slightly sinuous 

 below vein 6, joining the antemedial line above inner margin, 

 some diffused white on its outer edge and some white points on 

 costa ; subterminal lino only defined by the area beyond it being 



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Fig. 21. — PoUa oriza, c?. \. 



more purplish grey, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at 

 middle, joiiied by an oblique dark streak from termen below apex; 

 a fine pale line at base of cilia. Hind wing white, the costal and 

 terminal areas slightly tinged with red-brown, a rufous terminal 

 line ; the underside with the costal area irrorated with rufous, a 

 dark discoidal point and traces of a sinuous postmedial line. 



Hah. Mexico, Coatepec (BrooJcs), 1 (S type, Godman-Salvin Coll. 

 Exj). 30 millim, 



1229. Poliaruhsns. 



Celana rubens, Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. i. p. 274, pi. 26. f. 25 



(1889). 



Head and thorax purplish red-brown mixed with a few white 

 scales ; tegulse with black line near tips ; patagia partly edged with 

 black ; abdomen dark purplish brown. Fore wing purple-brown 

 suffused with grey ; an olive-green streak in submedian fold to 

 postmedial line ; subbasal line double, blackish filled in with grey, 

 waved, from costa to submedian fold, where it is connected with 

 base by a black streak ; antemedial line double filled in with grey, 

 strongly angled outwards below costa, then obliquely waved and 

 bent inwards to inner margin ; claviform more or less elongate, 

 strongly defined by black ; orbicular and reniform small, with, 

 white annuli slightly defined by black, the former oblique elliptical, 

 the latter with yellowish centre, narrow, strongly angled inwards 

 on median nervure, slightly in female ; postmedial line double 

 filled in with grey, oblique from below costa to vein 5, then strongly 

 incurved, some pale points beyond it on costa, the area beyond it 

 greyish, shading to rufous before the grey subterminal line, which 

 is prominent, angled inwards below costa and in submedian fold, 

 outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle ; a terminal series of 

 black points ; a fine grey line at base of cilia. Hind wing white, 

 the costal area tinged with brown, the inner and terminal areas 



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