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and grey hair; primaries below with the costal and basal areas greyish ; 
discal area tawny, with sub-apieal spot as above, bounded externally by a 
reddish-brown streak which becomes black at the external angle ; costa and 
apical area sandy-yellowish ; two subcostal internervular streaks and the 
outer margin shining silver; fringe ferruginous ; secondaries sandy-yellow, 
the veins pale yellow ; the whole of the internervular folds represented by 
well-defined shining silver streaks ; a discoidal streak, and the outer margin 
also silver; costal margin white ; fringe grey; body below grey, legs 
whitish ; expanse of wings, 1 inch 11 lines. 
Female.—Altogether paler, and smaller than the male, the borders above 
whitish ; wings below whitish ; the discal area orange, becoming very pale 
towards costa; markings as in the male, but less defined; expanse of 
wings, 1 inch 8-10 lines. 
Subfamily, Nvwrnarnmwm, Bates. 
Pyrameis, Hübner. 
4. Pyrameis kershawii. Pl. XII., Fig. 1. 
Cynthia kershawii, M*Coy, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., IV., vol. 1, p. 76 (1868). 
Pyrameis cardui, var. P. kershawii, Butler, Erebus and Terror, Lep., p. 29 (1874). 
Primaries above brown at the base; the central area fleshy-pink 
clouded with fulvous, crossed by an irregular oblique black belt, a spot of 
the latter divided off by a slender oblique line of the ground colour within 
the diseoidal cell; apical area and outer border broadly black; a post- 
discoidal oblique trifid white patch, followed by an arched series of four 
white spots, the uppermost bifid, the lowermost largest and rounded ; an 
indistinct sub-marginal series of linear white markings from above the 
second median branch to the costa; fringe white, interrupted by black at 
the terminations of the nervures; secondaries brown; the end of the cell 
and the disc flesh-colour, clouded with fulvous ; the costa and apex black ; 
four blue-centred discal black spots; a sub-marginal series of five fusiform 
black spots, end to end; a marginal series of larger sub-conical black spots ; 
fringe as in primaries ; body brown. Primaries below with the base to the 
middle of the cell rosy ; the end of the cell white, bounded externally by a 
trifid black bar; the apical area varied with olive-brown and silvery-grey ; 
the whole wing clearer and brighter than above; secondaries white, clouded 
with pale dull yellow and marbled with brown, indicating a central broad 
irregular band ; the apical third of discoidal cell white; five discal ocelli ; 
the second and fifth largest with bifid lilae centres, the first small with the 
iris broad and white internally, the third and fourth medium-sized with 
blue centres; outer border testaceous, edged with black, bounded internally 
by a sub-marginal white stripe, in front of which are two interrupted 
sinuated blackish lines filled in at anal angle with pale lilac; body below 
greyish-white ; expanse of wings, 2 inches 6 lines. 
