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base, — the upper and middle ones having a common stem ; discal band ! 
irregularly varied with very pale grey, most prominent between second 
subcostal and radial nervules (where on upper side occurs usually the 
wider of the two gaps often met with in discal band) ; hind-marginal 
lunulate markings brown ; neuration in the more strongly marked ex- 
amples dark-brown or blackish except near base. 
Head and body above black, thorax and abdomen beneath and 
laterally ochreous-yellow. Head with two large frontal spots, six 
superior spots, half-ring round eyes, and palpi pale sulphur-yellow. 
Thorax above with four pale sulphur-yellow spots, — two on prothorax 
and two (larger) on bases of pterygodes ; legs black, femora pale sul- 
phur-yellow in front. Abdomen with two rows of black spots on each 
side (the upper row marking the line of junction of the dorsal blackish 
and the ventral yellow), and with two black longitudinal streaks 
beneath. 
^ {Cenea, Stoll).-^ Sooty-blacky with ochreous-yelloiv and white (or 
all white) spots in both wings, and a broad ochreous-yellow pre-median 
hand in hind-iuings. Fore-wing : in discoidal cell, towards its ex- 
tremity, an oblique, narrow marking, usually with a more or less 
marked hook at each end, crossing about half the width of cell, white, 
often tinged inferiorly with ochreous-yellow ; beyond cell, a discal 
curved row of four spots, — three rather small (third longer than first 
and second) between third subcostal and third median nervules, — the 
fourth, much larger, elongate-ovate, between first and second median 
nervules (sometimes diffusedly extending below first median nervule) ; 
of these spots, the first is always white, the second and third usually 
ochreous-yellow, but not rarely whitish or white, and the fourth nearly 
always ochreous-yellow or pale ochreous-yellow, but sometimes white ; 
a subapical spot as in ^, but white (very rarely wanting) ; a sub- 
marginal row of three (rarely two) smaller, rounded spots between 
third median nervule and submedian nervure, usually more or less 
tinged with ochreous-yellow, but in some specimens quite white ; in 
some of the white-spotted examples, an indistinct narrow ochreous- 
yellow mark on inner margin before middle. Hind-iving : ochreous- 
yellow band somewhat paler and broader in specimens having the | 
spots of the fore-wing white, a little diffused on both inner and outer 
edges, — the former being not very far from base, and the latter a little 
beyond middle ; a submarginal series of twelve small spots arranged 
in inter-nervular pairs, of which ordinarily only the uppermost two 
are white, while the rest are ochreous-yellow, but in some examples 
(and always in those which have white-spotted fore-wing) all are 
white. Under side : Ground-colour of fore-ioing black, and the pale 
markings in both luings answering to those of upper side ; but ground- 
colour of hind-tving and apical hind-marginal area of fore-iuing lighter 
or deeper ochreous-broiun^ with inter-nervidar rays agreeing with those 
^ Mimics Amauris Echeria, (StoU). 
