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length of discoidal cell ; basal portion, to some distance, thickly streaked 
with short, thin, yellow transverse lines, and irrorated with yellowish 
scales ; in outer portion of discoidal cell two good-sized spots, the lower 
one farther from base than upper, and a transverse yellow streak touch- 
ing the closing nervules ; above the latter, outside cell, a short longi- 
tudinal streak ; beyond this a subquadrate spot on costa commences a 
transverse row of ten irregular-shaped spots, the first three curving out- 
wards towards hind-margin, the remainder inclining inwardly, increasing 
in size to about middle of inner margin, — the eighth and ninth much 
larger than the rest ; two rows of spots along hind-margin, the inner 
row of nine spots commencing with an elongate outwardly-curving 
mark on costa, the outer row on hind-marginal edge consisting of eight 
lunular spots. Hind-wing : a little before middle a transverse stripe 
continuous of the median row of spots in fore-wing, narrowing to 
beyond middle of inner margin, and divided very unequally into six by 
the crossing nervures ; on costa touching, and half encircled by, outer 
edge of stripe, an ovate, bronzy, blue-ringed spot in a black ring ; on 
inner margin, just before anal angle and almost touching stripe, a black 
inwardly densely blue-scaled spot, bounded outwardly by a very broad 
dark-red crescent ; two rows of hind-marginal spots as in fore-wing, 
but larger and more lunular, the inner row of seven (of which the first 
and seventh touch the costal and inner-marginal ocelli respectively), 
the outer of six spots ; all the black portion of wing, as far as inner 
row of marginal spots, thickly irrorated with yellow dots ; dentation 
on first median nervule on hind-margin more produced than the rest 
(indicating the generic inclination to a tail). Under side. — Consider- 
ally 'paUr than upper side. Forc-iuing : spots as on upper side ; yellow 
streak above subcostal uervure extends to beyond middle ; four yellow 
streaks radiating from base in cell (besides two very fine bounding 
lines along subcostal and median nervules respectively), and two below 
cell ; no irrorations. Hind-vnng : base widely yellowish, divided into 
three curved transverse stripes by the black-clouded costal and pre- 
costal nervures ; stripe before middle as on upper side ; ocelli similar ; 
within discoidal cell, at extremity, a dull-golden inwardly bluish-scaled 
crescent, edging a semicircular black marking ; inner row of hind- 
marginal spots (which are larger than on upper side) closely paralleled 
on their inner side by a row of five sublunular marks, coloured like 
the crescent in cell, and, like it, bounding each a blackish mark; the 
dark space between cell and these latter markings is thickly irrorated 
with dull-golden scales. 
Head black, with palpi, a streak on each side from palpus to back 
of vertex, and edging round eyes, pale sulphur-yellow. Thorax above 
black, irrorated with sulphur-yellow, except pterygodes (which have, 
however, an internal yellow streak continuous of that on each side of 
the head) ; breast sulphur-yellow with two oblique black stripes on 
each side ; legs black, more or less densely scaled with yellow except 
