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more or less broad in hind loing. Fore wing : basal black variable in 

 width, but always very narrow costally ; a transversely elongate 

 subbasal spot (in three examples divided across the middle) below 

 median nervure ; a similar marking in discoidal cell about or a 

 little before origin of 1st median nervule, and another, more oblique 

 and usually thinner, at extremity of cell ; in the highly -irregular 

 discal series of seven spots, the first four form an outwardly -arched 

 narrow subcostal macular bar at some distance beyond cell, the 

 fifth is apart from and a little beyond the 4th, the 6th is much 

 nearer base and situated directly under terminal cellular spot, and 

 the 7th a little beyond the 6th ; in three examples an 8th spot 

 (before the 7th) on inner-marginal edge ; a suhmarginal series of 

 jive spots, of which the upper three {between upper radial and 2nd 

 median nervules) are in a straight line directed outward inferiorly, 

 while the remaining two (of which the lower is usually geminate) 

 are about equidistant from hind margin ; a linear black edging 

 along costa ; sublinear hind-marginal edging exceedingly attenuated 

 at posterior angle but moderately (in three examples considerably) 

 widened at apex. Hind wing : basal black widest on either side of 

 median nervure, and not extending to costal or inner-marginal edge ; 

 a spot in discoidal cell beyond its middle ; a very irregular discal series 

 of eight spots, of which the 2nd, 3rd, 5th, and 7th (usually gemi- 

 nate) are considerably beyond the rest ; all these spots are seldom 

 present, the inferior ones being especially liable to disappear, and in 

 two examples only the minutest traces of two spots are visible ; 

 hind-marginal border very variable, not only in its width but in the 

 regular or irregular nervular indentation by ground-colour of its 

 inner edge, and in the presence or absence of 7 dull-yellowish spots 

 (the latter are distinct in two examples, indistinctly traceable in five, 

 and wanting in the remaining five). Cilia white in fore wing, 

 whitish in hind wing. Underside. — Considerably paler (especially 

 hind wing and apical area of fore wing), with markings mainly as 

 on upperside ; but no basal black, and hind-marginal border of hind 

 wing with seven conspicuous yellowish-white spots. Fore wing : in 

 examples where apical widened blackish edging is broader than 

 usual, that expansion contains a series of three yellowish-white 

 spots. Hind wing : at base itself a black mark ; in five examples a 

 small spot close to base on costal lobe ; a subbasal discocellular 

 spot, and a curved irregular row of five spots (of which the 2nd is 

 an outer discocellular one). 



$ . Like male, but usually considerably duller and browner in tint, 

 and with hind wing markedly paler; spots not so black; basal 

 suffusion not black hut greyish-fuscous, variable in extent {in tioo 

 examples obsolescent). Fore wing : the eighth (inner marginal) spot 

 of discal series present in five examples. Underside. — Hind wing 

 and apical area of fore wing more distinctly paler than rest of fore 

 wing, in some specimens creamy yellowish. Fore wing : in apical 

 area indistinct yellow-ochreous internervular rays. 



Abdomen in both sexes white, tinged with canary-yellow laterally 

 and ventrally ; but dorsally, from base to a point on third segment. 



