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ferruginous. Forewing ■with the irregular discal black line of the underside 

 showing through by transparency; the apical area widely pale fulvous, this pale area 

 extends from the submarginal hastate black markings to just within the discal line, 

 it is very wide on the costa, but dies away to nothing before reaching the first 

 median nervule ; a series of five submarginal hastate black markings, one in each 

 interspace from the upper discoidal nervule to the submedian nervure, increasing 

 progressively in size from the anterior to the posterior marking ; a large black patch 

 at the apex ; a submarginal fulvous line, beyond which is a narrower anteciliary 

 black line, both reaching from the inner angle to the lower discoidal nervule ; the 

 area enclosed by the coalescing of the hastate markings forms a series of six 

 rounded spots, regularly increasing in size, the anterior spot the smallest, the 

 posterior one the largest ; these spots are of a slightly darker shade than the pale 

 fulvous apical area, but not so dark as the dark rich reddish-fulvous of the rest of 

 the wing. Hindwing with the abdominal and outer margins rather paler than the 

 rest of the wing ; a submarginal series of seven black markings, of which the 

 anterior one is a small lunule with its concave edge directed towards the base of the 

 wing, the next five markings are hastate-shaped, increasing in size from the anterior 

 one to the posterior one in the first median interspace, the seventh posterior marking 

 somewhat quadrate in form, and occupying the whole width of the submedian inter- 

 space ; a fine black anteciliary thread. 



" Underside. Both wings of a reddish-fulvous of not quite so rich a shade as on 

 the upperside. Foreioing with a small irregular black marking towards the base of 

 the cell ; a highly irregular and zigzag black line crosses the middle of the cell and 

 extends both to the costa and to the submedian nervure, the posterior portion of the 

 line is broken and shifted outwardly below the median nervure ; the upper, middle, 

 and anterior half of the lower discocellular nervule defined by a black line ; an 

 irregular discal black line from the costa to the submedian nervure, just touching the 

 lower end of the cell ; beyond the line is a series of five somewhat cordate reddish 

 ocelli, each ocellus centred with a whitish lunule, and bounded by a fine whitish, and 

 then a fine black line, the four anterior ocelli equal-sized, the fifth posterior one in 

 the tirst median interspace a little larger; beyond these ocelli is another irregular 

 black line from the costa to the inner margin, this line is narrower and paler than 

 the discal one ; the space between these two lines is anteriorly somewhat paler than 

 the rest of the wing ; a submarginal nebulous straight blackish band ; a very fine 

 anteciliary black line. Hindwing with an irregular subbasal and a discal black line, 

 the latter posteriorly curving round and almost meeting the posterior end of the 

 former, both terminating above the anal angle on the submedian nervure; a series 

 of five ocelli on the disc similar to those in the forewing, the posterior one the largest 

 and rather mis-shapen, the anterior one the next largest, the three in the middle 



