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side ; inter-nervular rays almost obsolete except at their inner ends. 

 Hind-wing : whitish discal clouding much more developed ; neuration 

 generally black finely edged with whitish scales ; basal black broken 

 up into one large mark at base enclosing three white spots, three rather 

 large rounded spots above discoidal cell, and a small round spot in upper 

 part of cell ; other black spots as on upper side ; inner-marginal fold 

 more or less clothed with creamy-yellow hairs ; spots in hind-marginal 

 border pale ochreous-creamy, in parts faintly tinged with pink (an 

 eighth spot between submedian and internal nervures). 



Head, thorax, and abdomen black, with the following white and 

 yellow markings, viz.: swpcriorly, two small white spots on front, and 

 two on back of head ; two rather larger white spots on collar ; two 

 white spots on patagia of thorax, and four large ochreous-yellow ones 

 (one pair about middle, the other posterior) behind them ; on abdomen 

 a pair of white spots on basal segment, and a pair of large ochreous- 

 yellow ones on each other segment ; — inferiorly, the palpi are ochreous- 

 yellow with the terminal small joint black ; thorax with a central 

 ochreous-yellow stripe, and nine or ten good- sized white spots on each 

 side ; ahdomen with the segmental incisions and a stripe on each side 

 pure-white. Antennae black. Legs black, with small white spots 

 defining each joint. 



$ Much dtdler, the red in fore-iving replaced hy pale greyish-ockreous, 

 and in hind-iving hy pale rnfous-ochreons ; the black spots in paler 

 (some of them in whitish), more developed rings ; other black markings 

 duller and less pronounced, especially the inter-nervular black rays of 

 the fore-wing. Fore-wing : yellow-ochreous subapical bar paler and 

 broader (its lower extremity in one example indistinctly separable from 

 the discal colouring) ; immediately preceding its upper part an ill- 

 defined, short, blackish oblique ray. Under side. — Very much paler 

 and didler, with only a faint reddish tinge over bases and on discs. 

 Hind-wing : whitish-creamy, tinged with pale-yellow on the margins ; 

 spots in hind-marginal border the same colour, partly tinged with red- 

 dish ; before hind-marginal border some faint inter-nervular reddish 

 rays. 



Head, thorax, abdomen, &c., coloured and marked as in ^. 



Var. a. — ^ and $. 



^ The subapical yellow-ochreous bar of fore-wing wholly wanting, 

 so that the whole apical half is left semi-transparent fuscous-grey. 

 The spots in hind-marginal border much larger than usual. (Two 

 examples.) 



% An oblique, narrow, white suhapical ray in fore-wing, obsolete 

 superiorly, inferiorly tinged with yellow-ochreous; ground-colour 

 brighter and redder, especially in hind-wing near base ; spots in hind- 

 marginal border not much larger than in ordinary $. On under side 

 the basal and discal rose-pink is much developed, and only a little paler 

 than in the ^. (One example; exp, al., 4 in.) 



