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greenish lunules, sometimes yellow-tinged, always more or less obli- 

 terated towards costa, and sometimes quite obsolete, except two or three 

 imperfect lunules near anal angle ; a little before these lunules is a row 

 of pale-blue spots, of which only two large ones at anal angle are 

 usually visible ; tails on third and first median nervules slender, rather 

 long, black, the former the longer of the two. Under side. — Ricli 

 cliocolatc-rccl, with numerous ivliite margined, metallic-centred, blackish 

 transverse strice and sjMs ; the transverse white band very conspicuous, 

 glistening, continuous throughout. Fore-wing : five of the white-margined 

 striae described on costa, — three in discoidal cell, one at its extremity, 

 and one beyond middle, its lower end touching transverse white band ; 

 three similar striae beloiv cell, — one immediately beneath the third stria 

 in cell, the other two (whose outer white edging is merged in trans- 

 verse band) situate one above, the other below, second median nervule; 

 two faint-blackish marks in transverse, glistening-white band, close to 

 costa ; beyond white band, the ground-colour is more ochreous in tint, 

 and marked with a transverse row of triangular, or sub-triangular, 

 blackish marks, outwardly edged with glistening-whitish (except the 

 two last and largest, below first median nervule, which are contiguous, 

 and edged outwardly with greyish-blue) ; on hind- margin, a greyish 

 mark at extremity of each nervule, and a yellowish tinge betiveen ner- 

 vules ; before transverse white band, and touching it, beneath third 

 median nervule, a large, somewhat quadrate, blackish spot, not with a 

 metallic centre ; the space between it and base dull ochreous. Hind^ 

 wing : at base, on costa, an elongate spot, coloured similarly to strise 

 in fore-wing, and like them margined with glistening white ; inner- 

 marginal edge bordered with a black, imvardly white-margined streak 

 near base, where its outline is most strongly convex ; obliquely crossing 

 the deeply -grooved portion of wing are three elongate glistening striee, 

 like those above described, white-margined on both sides, the second 

 and third united by a curve at their lower and outer extremity (where, 

 close to inner margin, they meet the broad transverse white band), — 

 and the third likewise united, by a curve in the opposite direction 

 from the same extremity, to a similar elongate streak lying in the 

 fold where the swelling of the side of the groove commences ; this 

 latter streak seems continuous of a transverse row of three short, 

 similarly coloured, contiguous marks from costa, which it meets on 

 median nervure, very little removed from base ; near end of cell is a 

 similar, curved streak, which is continued downwards and outwards by 

 a further streak of the same colours, that, touching the streak lying 

 in the fold of wing, suddenly curves iipivard at its extremity, where 

 it meets white transverse band ; broad, transverse white band more 

 glistenivg than that in fore- wing, more sharply defined than on upper 

 side, continued conspicuously to inner-marginal edge, a little before anal 

 angle, edged imvardly by a row of metallic-centred, small spots of 

 variable size (the outer portion of whose white margins is merged with 



