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spot; a little farther on a similar spot commences a thin metallic- 
bluish line reaching almost to third median nervule and preceded by 
good-sized subreniform marking formed of metallic-bluish scales ; a 
narrow apical area clouded with pale ochreous-brown ; apical white 
spots arranged as on upper side, but those of oblique costal row all 
white and united to form an irregular streak, and the third and fourth 
of the outer row subocellate in thin blackish rings ; apical half of hind- 
marginal border as far as second median nervule oclirey-wliitisli, tra- 
versed mesially by a series of thin sagittate lunules. Hind-iving : 
ground-colour reddish-brown, crossed by three highly-irregular white 
and bluish striae, respectively before, about, and beyond middle ; the 
first and second of these striaB commence with a conspicuous whitish 
costal spot, which in the case of the second (middle) one is much 
larger and suffused, are thence finely linear and shining-bluish as far 
as median nervure, whence to inner margin they are widened, inter- 
rupted, angulated, and yellowish- white ; the third stria is scarcely 
visible as a brownish line as far as second median nervule, where it 
suddenly alters like the others, but becomes even more broken and 
angulated ; the first and second strige are internally, the third exter- 
nally, bordered by very dark brown ; space between second and third 
strige very dark brown, irrorated near costa and about middle with 
bluish, but lower down as far as inner margin densely with creamy- 
white ; in discoidal cell, between first and second strige, an elongate 
blackish transverse mark, centred indistinctly with chestnut-red, 
entirely enclosed by a linear bluish ring ; only the lower of the two 
ocelli well represented, and in a well-defined outwardly black- edged 
thin yellow ring ; a row of four subocellate metallic-green-dusted 
blackish spots in imperfect yellow rings between the ocellus and first 
subcostal nervule ; position of yellow band of upper side indicated by 
pale dull ochrey-brown, traversed by tAvo interrupted lunulate blackish 
streaks ; metallic greenish-blue irroration near anal angle much denser 
than on upper side. 
^ Like hut ochre-yellow hands jmler, rather hroader, and ivhite 
spots of fore-wing a little larger. Under side. — Paler throughout ; 
the nervures of hasal and inner-marginal areas of hind-wing creamy- 
ivhite. 
Larva. — Sandy-brown, inclining to ashy dorsally over posterior 
half ; on each segment, except the second and last, two dorsal pairs and 
one lateral pair of short, black, oblique streaks, all tending to converge 
posteriorly ; of these, the central pair is linear, the next pair thicker, 
and the lateral pair very thick posteriorly ; second segment without 
markings ; last segment with central and lateral streaks only ; head 
ashy-fuscous ; spines black ; legs and pro-legs grey edged with crim- 
son ; a zigzag black spiracular streak. Second Form. — White tinged 
with bluish-grey dorsally ; each segment with a very broad central 
black bar, slightly narrowing inferiorly, and ending quite abruptly just 
