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hind-margin for about two-thirds of its length. Above this 

 is a large patch of raised scales opposite the inner-margin. 

 The hind-wings are green, with a narrow black border, 

 waved on the inner side, and a row of large round black 

 dots on the disc, near which are sometimes some small 

 orange ones. On the under side the fore-wings have the end 



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of the cell, and a great part of the disc between the broad 

 black nervures, green, crossed on the outer side by a broad 

 black bar. On the hind-wings the marginal black band is 

 broader, and the inner-margin is black; the sub-marginal spots 

 curve round to the costa, and within them is a large orange 

 spot above the cell. The head and thorax are black, the latter 

 spotted with red below the win^s, and with a green longitudinal 



