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broad and irregularly surrounded witli black. Hindv-lng reddish-ochreous, or greyish 

 brownisb-oclireous, brigbtest posteriorly ; crossed by a broad bluish-white band 

 extending from costal vein and ending above anal angle, where it is marked by a 

 slender black sinuous streak, the anterior end is outwardly black-edged, and a 

 black" angled-bar extends across its middle from the costal to subcostal vein ; a 

 slender black streak edged with white extending along inner base of costal vein from 

 the precostal ; a prominent submarginal row of small white spots, followed by a 

 marginal black fascia traversed by two prominent bluish-white or greyish-white 

 lunular Hues, similar to but broader than those on forewing. Body and palpi above 

 black ; front of thorax and head white spotted ; first and second joints of palpi 

 white beneath ; thorax and abdomen beneath black, spotted with white ; legs 

 blackish, streaked with white ; antennas black. 



Female. Trimorphic. — Flrfit form (fig. 1, b, c). — Dloeippuft, Cramer. — Uppei-- 

 side reddish-ochreous; cilia black alternated with white. Forewing with the apical- 

 half blue-black, commencing from base of costa and gradually widening across apex 

 of cell and then curving downward to posterior angle, across which is an upper- 

 discal outwardly-oblique series of five bluish white spots placed between the 

 veinlets, the upper spot very small and hnear, the second and third elongated and 

 subquadrate, the fourth generally shorter and either subquadrate or ovate, the fifth 

 shorter and rounded ; this series is preceded on the costa by a slender white streak 

 and two or three obscure speckled streaks below the subcostal, and followed by a 

 subapical curved series of four small white spots of which the two lowest are minute ; 

 beyond are two marginal rows of slender bluish-white disconnected linear spots, 

 which latter are smallest and less defined anteriorly and posteriorly. Hiiidwing 

 with a large medial upper-discal black spot placed beneath the costal vein, and a 

 marginal black band traversed by an inner row of very small obscure ochreous or 

 ochreous'white spots, and an outer series of whiter disconnected slender lunules ; 

 sometimes the discocellular veiulet is slightly speckled on each side by black scales, 

 and its contiguous black spot of the underside is also slightly apparent. Underside. 

 Forewing with the lower half paler reddish-ochreous posteriorly and the apical area 

 beyond the upper-discal spots yellowish-ochreous, the medial area from base of costa 

 across the disc to posterior angle only being black ; base of costa white-speckled, 

 subcostal blue-white cell-spots large and prominent, the upper-discal oblique white 

 spots, the subapical and lower submarginal spots, and marginal lunules, as above, 

 prominent. Hindiving yellowish-ochreous, the disc more or less slightly smeared 

 between the veins with chalky-white ; a black slender streak at base of costal vein ; 

 a medial subcostal angled-bar and a large black spot at outer end of cell ; a sul> 

 marginal row of white dots, marginal black band, and its two traversing series of 

 lunules broader and more prominently white or ochreous-wbite than on upperside. 



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