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to end of discoidal cell, but narrowing much to posterior angle ; bor- 

 der contains five (rarely six) spots of the ground-colour, viz., two near 

 costa, about midway between end of cell and apex, — two below and 

 beyond these two, one on each side of third median nervule, — and one 

 near apex, — the sixth, when present, being much smaller than the rest, 

 and between second and first median nervules ; costa to about end 

 of cell narrowly bordered with ochreous-brown ; a conspicuous short 

 fuscous transverse bar closing extremity of cell, and a small, rather 

 indistinct fuscous spot in cell, about the middle, touching subcostal 

 nervure. Hind-wing : border of moderate width, containing eight very 

 small sjDots of the ground-colour, of which the three next anal angle are 

 tinged with violaceous-blue ; before these spots the band encloses a 

 more or less indistinct and interrupted lunulate streak of the ground- 

 colour, from anal angle (where it is tinged with yellow-ochreous) as far 

 as radial nervure, and beyond them a hind-marginal ochreous-yellow 

 lunulate streak becoming broken and almost obsolete towards apex ; 

 tail (on first median nervule) blackish, with a fine central streak of the 

 ground-colour. In both wings a median dusky streak of the under side 

 is faintly shown on the upper side. Under side. — Paler, ivith a silvery 

 glitter over hind-iving and the jmIc marginal markings of fore-wing ; 

 the marginal horders and transverse stripes jMle-lrmcn. Fore-iving : dis- 

 coidal cell crossed, before its middle, by a short broad stripe, emitting 

 superiorly a striola extending to base ; a longer similar stripe at ex- 

 tremity of cell extending to, and abruptly ending at, the fold between 

 first median nervule and submedian nervure ; spots in apical and hind- 

 marginal border enlarged and more numerous, a third (superior) being 

 added to the inner group of two near costa, — while the apical spot and 

 lower group of two are completely merged in a continuous submacular 

 band (immediately followed by a lunulate interrupted streak of the 

 same silvery tint) running from apex to posterior angle ; costal edge 

 brown, with a good-sized silvery mark at base. Hind-wing : a stripe 

 in line with the outer of the two in fore-wing, commencing on costa 

 (where it encloses a small silvery spot) before middle, extends across 

 extremity of cell to below first median nervule not far from anal angle, 

 whence it is deflected at an acute angle to inner margin beyond middle ; 

 from base a straight rather narrow brown streak runs between median 

 and submedian nervures, and meets the stripe just described before the 

 point of deflection ; in hind-marginal border, the upper four spots are 

 enlarged and confluent into a wide silvery band, while the lower four 

 are small, separate, tinged with bluish, and strongly black-edged : this 

 whole series of spots is both preceded and followed by a silvery streak, 

 of which the inner is edged internally with black, and the outer stained 

 with ochreous-yellow in its lower half. 



$ Like $, hut with all the fuseous markings mueh reduced, espeeially 

 the hind-marginal harder, in which the pale spots are greatly enlarged 

 (with the exception of the apical spot of the fore-wing) and more 



