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of discoidal cell, sometimes toucliing costal border, a small rounded 

 spot ; at extremity of cell a short, broad, oblique, curved black bar, 

 generally ending abruptly on third median nervule, but rarely partly 

 prolonged towards hind-margin by a small elongate mark below that 

 nervule ; apical border rather broad ; hind-marginal border narrower, 

 its inner edge emitting irregularly short thin nervular rays, and one 

 inter-nervular projection between second and third median nervules ; 

 enclosed in border, from apex to posterior angle, eight inter-nervular 

 spots of the ground-colour (of which the upper four are more linear 

 than the lower), sometimes very distinct, but oftener obscured or 

 wanting near apex. Hind-wing : base a little more widely blackish 

 than in fore-wing ; a well-marked, slightly curved, sub-linear spot at 

 upper part of extremity of discoidal cell ; basal and discal spots of 

 under side faintly showing ; hind-marginal border much like that of 

 fore-wing, but containing seven spots, which are seldom very distinct, 

 and sometimes almost obliterated. Under side. — Hind-iving and . 

 apical area of forc-ioing pale, creamy-yellotoish, the nervules clouded 

 with black towards margin, which is bounded by a black line. Fore- 

 wing : ground-colour much paler, especially towards posterior angle ; 

 costal border mostly creamy-yellowish ; oblique bar not so strongly 

 marked ; along hind-margin a row of short inter-nervular ochreous 

 rays. Hind-wioig : the following small black spots, viz., two at base, 

 one on costa close to base, one close to costa before middle, two in 

 discoidal cell, one at extremity of cell, one just below median nervure, 

 and two close to inner margin near base ; about middle an angulated 

 discal row of eight spots from costa to inner margin ; a sharply- 

 festooned black line, before hind-marginal one, but meeting it on each 

 nervule, separates from disc seven large, inwardly-narrowed spots of 

 the ground-colour. 



$ (Form a.) — Paler, duller ; hind-marginal horders consideraUy 

 broader, all their enclosed spots large and distinct. Fore-wing : oblique 

 bar narrower, more curved ; inward projection of hind-marginal border 

 between second and third median nervules much greater. Under SIDE. 

 — As in $. 



$ (Form b.) — Fore-iving : semi-transparent grey, basally tinged 

 with more or less fulvous- ochreous ; oblique bar much reduced or almost 

 obsolete; the space immediately beyond it more or less whitish (this 

 whitish is visually vaguely and narroioly prolonged to posterior angle) ; 

 hind-marginal border and its spots moi-e or less suffused and indistinct. 

 Hind-wing : several of the discal and basal spots of under side well 

 pronounced but rather suffused ; usually some dull grey irroration in 

 basal area. Under side. — Hind-wing : before the festooned line which 

 encloses hind-marginal spots, a similar (but not parallel) less pro- 

 nounced festooned line, so that the two lines seclude between them an 

 inner series of small spots of the ground-colour, each spot divided by 

 a black-clouded nervule. 



