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pale pinkish brown, the terminal segments with slight brown 
dorsal streak and subdorsal white points, the hairs of lateral tuft 
white tipped with black, the ventral surface white at base. Tore 
wing pale pinkish brown; a slight black mark at base; subbasal 
line represented by a white point below costa and black spot at 
vein 1 defined on inner side by a white striga; antemedial area 
suffused with plum colour; antemedial line double, white suffused 
with purple, indistinct, oblique and slightly waved from costa 
to median nervure towards end of cell, then inwardly oblique, 
the inner line slightly angled inwards at submedian fold and 
vein |; an irregularly quadrate yellow spot in cell towards ex- 
tremity, with triangular white mark above it on costa with some 
black points on it; two minute blackish discoidal points; a hyaline 
Fiz, 2.—Pacidura venustissina, $. } 
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yellow band irrorated with black beyond the antemedial line from 
vein 2 to inner margin, with small spot above vein 2 and vein 1 
streaked with rufous; postmedial line double, with triangular 
white patch at costa, the outer line blackish, the inner white tinged 
with purple below vein 7, the outer line moderately oblique from 
costa to below vein 7 where it is angled, the inner line very oblique 
and acutely angled, the line then oblique, the outer line waved and 
defined on inner side by purple below vein 4, the inner line with 
black points at submedian fold, vein 1, and inner margin ; sub- 
terminal line represented by a series of small hyaline yellow spots 
and a large quadrate patch below the angle of postmedial line between 
veins 6 and 4, the spot below costa faint, the spot above vein 6 bifid 
and defined on inner side by deep red, the quadrate patch with small 
red spot near upper edge followed by points, and two points near 
inner edge, the spot below vein 4 angled inwards, between veins 
2 and 1 reduced to a fine line; the terminal area suffused with 
purple from above vein 6 to vein 3, leaving a narrow pale yellow 
teriainal band with small black spots just before termen, and some 
points on termen, larger spot at vein 6 and patch at veins 4, 3; 
