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Male and female, first form. — Upperside : velvety black or soft brown. 

 JForewing with a subterminal series of outwardly truncate or emarginate 

 white spots ; the spot in interspace 4 ■ shifted inwards out of line ; those 

 in 6, 7, 8 oblique to costa, the lowest and the upper two elongate; 

 this followed by a terminal series of smaller white spots, two in inter- 

 space 1, one above the other and two in interspace 8 ; finally, a single 

 spot between the svibterminal and terminal series. Hindwing with a 

 discal series of inwardly conical and outwardly emarginate, triangular, 

 elongate, white spots in interspaces 1-5 ; a subterminal series of four 

 white lunules in interspaces '2-b, the series continued in interspaces 

 6 and 7 as transversely oblong, Avhite spots ; a prominent, tornal, yellow 

 spot broadly divided across the middle by a bar of the ground colour. The 

 cilia touched with white in the interspaces ; sometimes one or more of these 

 specks on the cilia are broad, prominent and yellow in colour. Underside : 

 from soft, pale brown to rich, dark, velvety brown. Forewing with the 

 markings as on the upper side. Hindwing with the markings also similar 

 to those on the upperside but the terminal margin beyond the subterminal 

 series of white markings bears a row of comparatively large, very conspicu- 

 ous, yellow spots, separated from the white lunules by a series of short, 

 transverse, detached spots of the ground colour. Antennee, head, thorax 

 and abdomen black ; the thorax anteriorly and beneath, and the abdomen 

 ■on the sides, spotted with white. 



Male and female, second form {dissimilis, Doubleday). — Differs from the 

 first form as follows : — Vpperside: forewing : cell with four streaks coales- 

 cent at base and four spots beyond at^apex, a long streak in interspace 

 la, two streaks with two spots beyond, which are more or less coalescent 

 with them, iu interspace 1, a broad streak with an outwardly emargi- 

 nate spot beyond in interspace 2; similar spots, one at base and one beyond, 

 in 3 ; a single similar spot in 4 ; elongate streaks in 5 and 6, and much 

 smaller elongate spots in interspaces 8 and 9. All these streaks and spots 

 cream-white with diffuse edges ; subterminal and terminal markings as in 

 the first form. Hindwing : markings similar to those in the first form, 

 with the following differences : — discoidal cell entirely white ; discal white 

 streaks longer, reaching quite up to the outer margin of the cell and contin- 

 ued anteriorly to costa by elongate streaks in interspaces 6, 7 ; two spots 

 in interspace 8 and a slender streak along costa ; the subterminal and 

 terminal markings as in the first form. Underside similar to the upperside, 

 the cream- white markings slightly larger, the terminal series of yellow spots 

 on the hindwing as in the first form. Antennee, head, thorax and abdo- 

 men with more prominent white spots. Exp. 108-121mm. 



The first form is liable to certain variation : — the forewing may have a 

 third (discal) series of one to five markings ; it is then variety casijapa, 

 Mcore ; the forewings may be black with an obvious bluish tint in certain 



