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to a large semicircular black-brown discuiclal spot which it defines 

 except above ; a rufous fascia beyond the cell below vein 6 to the 

 subterminal line where it ends in a point, defined above by a slight 

 pale streak on vein 6 with a semicircular grey spot above it at 

 middle ; postmedial line double, brown filled in with ochreous, 

 arising from costa towards apex, incm-ved between veins 8 and 6, 

 interrupted at the rufous fascia, then oblique and waved to vein 1, 

 with deeper excision between veins 3 and 2, at vein 1 retracted 

 iipwards with an inward curve to the outer edge of the discoidal 

 spot where it terminates, its sinus below the rufous fascia filled in 

 with chocolate-brown ; subterminal line indistinctly double, brown 

 filled in with yellow, arising below vein 6 and at submedian fold 

 bent outwards to inner margin towards tornus, some blackish brown 

 suffusion beyond its upper extremity and at middle and before and 

 beyond it towards inner margin ; a lunulate black-brown line before 

 termen from the apical area to above tornus ; a double chocolate- 

 brown terminal line. Hind wing pale grey-brown striated with 

 red-brown, the terminal area fuscous brown except at tornus, on 

 costa extending to middle ; a large white medial patch from costa 

 to vein 3, with a band from its lower extremity before a slightly 

 sinuous dark brown postmedial line, with a faint line before it on 

 the white band ; a waved ochreous subterminal line from discal 

 fold to inner margin to which it is bent outwards with black spots 

 on its inner side at veins 5 to 2 and a blackish bar on inner area ; 

 some white on apical part of termen with an indistinct waved 

 brown line before termen from it to inner margin followed by a 

 fine waved yellow terminal line Avith black-brown suffusion before it. 

 Underside of fore wing with the basal area and costal area to 

 the postmedial band yellow, the rest of wing fuscoi;s with white 

 patches on apical area and on termen above torniTs ; a yellow 

 discoidal annulus filled in with black with a blue-white point in 

 centre, a white postmedial band interrupted by slight dark streaks 

 on the veins, oblique to discal fold, then slightly incurved, a series 

 of blackish striie before termen double and tilled in with some white 

 on the dark area ; hind wing with the basal and inner areas j^ellow, 

 the rest of the wing fuscous with white patches at apex and on 

 termen towards tornus, a round black discoidal spot with white 

 point in centre and slight yellow mark towards outer edge, an 

 obliquely excmwed white medial band interrupted by slight dark 

 streaks on the veins, its inner edge defined by a narrow dark band 

 with dentate outer edge. 



c? . Fore wing with the inner medial and postmedial areas more 

 red- brown, the apical area yellower ; hind wing without white patch 

 on medial costal area or at apex, the postmedial line distinctly double, 

 the underside with the postmedial band narrower and bluer, the 

 white marks on termen much reduced except at apex of fore 

 wing. 



Hah. Abu Is. ; Dutch N. G-uinea (JBurke), 1 $ , Oetakwa 11. 

 (Meek), cJ in Coll. Rothschild; Be. N. Guinea, Albert Edward 

 Eange (Boker), 1 ? . ^ay. 116-120 millim. 



