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white. Foreiving with a large broad medial ochreous-yelloxv patch, palest in the 

 middle, extending from near the base more or less irregularly to below the subcostal 

 and obliquely to beyond the disc towards the posterior angle, where it is sometimes 

 narrowed and bent downward, or includes a round black lowei'-discal spot betweeu 

 the two lower medians and thence joins the upper end below base of the cell ; a 

 subapical short white angular streak and a straight upper submarginal duller streak 

 crossed by the veins ; a small ochreous-ringed ocellus is generally present below the 

 subapical streak. Hindiving with a large cobalt-blue subbasal spot ; a large lower- 

 discal broad ochreous-yellow patch extending from the submedian below the cell to 

 the lower subcostal and thence curving downward to near the outer margin and 

 ending above anal angle ; the black outer-marginal border being sometimes more or 

 less lunularly-included within the ochreous patch ; an ochreous-grey kmule is 

 generally present above the anal angle ; abdominal border greyish-brown. Under- 

 side. Foreiving pale dull yellowish-ochreous ; the apex, outer and posterior border 

 being pale ochreous-brown and crossed by the upper whitish fascijB; the upper and 

 lower discal black ocellate spot distinct ; across the cell are five more or less 

 complete black sinuous lines and a diffused streak at its end. IHndwing greyish- 

 ochreous, more or less powdered with brown scales ; crossed by brown subbasal 

 wavy lines, a discal sinuous fascia, then a row of obsolescent dots of which 

 the lowest is more distinct and ocellate, followed by two submarginal sinuous 

 lines. 



Female. Upperside brownish-black. Foreiving with the ochreous discal area 

 more restricted ; middle of the cell crossed by two more or less entire black streaks 

 and a broad streak at its end ; apical white fascia, and two discal black ocelli with 

 blue central dot, disposed as in male. Hindvnng with the lower-discal ochreous 

 patch narrower, and bearing an upper and lower small black ocellus with blue- 

 speckled centre ; the outer marginal lunular lines entire and edged with ochreous ; 

 the subbasal blue spot smaller, more or less duller, sometimes black speckled and 

 occasionally obsolete. Underside darker than in male ; markings the same. Body 

 above black, beneath and legs pale ochreous-white ; palpi above brown, beneath 

 white ; antennae black above, pale ochreous beneath. 



Expanse, S li^o to 2fQ, ? li^o to 2^o inches. 



Larva. — Cylindrical ; minutely hairy ; head rather small, vertex bluntly cleft, 

 hairy ; segments armed with a dorsal and lateral rows of black branched- spines ; 

 ■ ground-colour greyish-fuliginous, dull reddish beneath ; with a dorsal pale ochreous 

 line, and lateral rows of white marks. 



Pupa. — Dull reddish; head obtuse in front ; thorax dorsally convex ; abdomen 

 with a dorsal and lateral rows of small blackish points. (Described from Capt. 

 Mortimer Slater's drawing.) 



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