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spot ; a little farther on a similar spot commences a thin metallic- 

 bluish line reaching almost to third median nervule and preceded by 

 good-sized subreniform marking formed of metallic-bluish scales ; a 

 narrow apical area clouded with pale ochreous-brown ; apical white 

 spots arranged as on upper side, but those of oblique costal row all 

 white and united to form an irregular streak, and the third and fourth 

 of the outer row subocellate in thin blackish rings ; apical half of hind- 

 marginal border as far as second median nervule ochrey-whitish, tra- 

 versed mesially by a series of thin sagittate lunules. Hind-iving : 

 ground-colour reddish-brown, crossed by three highly-irregular white 

 and bluish striae, respectively before, about, and beyond middle ; the 

 first and second of these stria3 commence with a conspicuous whitish 

 costal spot, which in the case of the second (middle) one is much 

 larger and suffused, are thence finely linear and shining-bluish as far 

 as median nervure, whence to inner margin they are widened, inter- 

 rupted, angulated, and yellowish- white ; the third stria is scarcely 

 visible as a brownish line as far as second median nervule, where it 

 suddenly alters like the others, but becomes even more broken and 

 angulated ; the first and second striae are internally, the third exter- 

 nally, bordered by very dark brown ; space between second and third 

 striae very dark brown, irrorated near costa and about middle with 

 bluish, but lower down as far as inner margin densely with creamy- 

 white ; in discoidal cell, between first and second strite, an elongate 

 blackish transverse mark, centred indistinctly with chestnut-red, 

 entirely enclosed by a linear bluish ring ; only the lower of the two 

 ocelli well represented, and in a well-defined outwardly black-edged 

 thin yellow ring ; a row of four subocellate metallic-green-dusted 

 blackish spots in imperfect yellow rings between the ocellus and first 

 subcostal nervule ; position of yellow band of upper side indicated by 

 pale dull ochrey-brown, traversed by two interrupted lunulate blackish 

 streaks ; metallic greenish-blue irroratiou near anal angle much denser 

 than on upper 'side. 



$ Lihe $, hut ochre-yellow hands paler, rather hroader, and ivhite 

 spots of fore-wing a little larger. Under side. — Paler throughout ; 

 the nervures of hasal and inner-marginal areas of hind-wing creamy- 

 ivhite. 



Larva. — Sandy-brown, inclining to ashy dorsally over posterior 

 half ; on each segment, except the second and last, two dorsal pairs and 

 one lateral pair of short, black, oblique streaks, all tending to converge 

 posteriorly ; of these, the central pair is linear, the next pair thicker, 

 and the lateral pair very thick posteriorly ; second segment without 

 markings; last segment with central and lateral streaks only; head 

 ashy-fuscous ; spines black ; legs and pro-legs grey edged with crim- 

 son ; a zigzag black spiracular streak. Second Form. — White tinged 

 with bluish-grey dorsally ; each segment with a very broad central 

 black bar, slightly narrowing inferiorly, and ending quite abruptly just 



