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mid tibia3 fuscous; abdomen crimson, the dorsum grey -brown 

 towards base. Pore wing reddish brown tinged with grey; ante- 

 medial line tine, fuscous with a leaden gloss, slightly curved ; a 

 very large inverted comma-shaped discoidal mark, its centre red- 

 brov^n with the head filled in with black suffused with silvery blue 

 on inner side, the upper pait of tail filled in with silvery blue and 

 white, the mark defined by black on inner side, below, and on 

 outer side of head, with a fine grey line inside it and whitish 

 beyond it on outer side of head, the outer side of tail and inner 

 side of head defined by a waved white line ; postmedial line dark 

 brown, arising below costa, excurved round the discoidal mark, 

 then oblique to inner margin towards which it is dilated; two 



Fig. CiD. — Speiredoiiia t/hiiicetivei/s, c? . \. 



curved, waved silvery-blue subterminal lines, the inner arising 

 below costa, the outer at vein 7, with a cupreous gloss between 

 and just beyond them ; two waved black lines before termen. 

 Hind wing reddish brown tinged with grey, the costal area to 

 beyond middle and the inner area pale scarlet ; a blackish discoidal 

 point ; a strong black-brown medial line with a slighter brown line 

 beyond it ; two waved postmedial lines, silvery blue except towards 

 coata ; two waved subterminal lines, the inner with silvery blue 

 spots on it except towards costa ; two waved black lines before 

 termen. Underside of both wings scarlet with small black discoidal 

 spots, curved maculate medial and postmedial lines, and the hind 

 wing with subterminal series of black points. 



