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to end of discoidal cell, but narrowing mucli to posterior angle ; bor- 
der contains five (rarely six) spots of tlie ground-colour, viz., two near 
costa, about midway between end of cell and apex, — two below and 
beyond these two, one on each side of third median nervule, — and one 
near apex, — the sixth, when present, being much smaller than the rest, 
and between second and first median nervules ; costa to about end 
of cell narrowly bordered with ochreous-brown ; a conspicuous short 
fuscous transverse bar closing extremity of cell, and a small, rather 
indistinct fuscous spot in cell, about the middle, touching subcostal 
nervure. Hind-tving : border of moderate width, containing eight very 
small spots of the ground-colour, of which the three next anal angle are 
tinged with violaceous-blue ; before these spots the band encloses a 
more or less indistinct and interrupted lunulate streak of the ground- 
colour, from anal angle (where it is tinged with yellow-ochreous) as far 
as radial nervure, and beyond them a hind-marginal ochreous-yellow 
lunulate streak becoming broken and almost obsolete towards apex ; 
tail (on first median nervule) blackish, with a fine central streak of the 
ground-colour. In both wings a median dusky streak of the under side 
is faintly shown on the upper side. Under side. — Paler, tvith a silvery 
glitter over hind-wing and the paU marginal markings of fore-wing ; 
the marginal borders and transverse stripes pale-brown. Fore-iving : dis- 
coidal cell crossed, before its middle, by a short broad stripe, emitting 
superiorly a striola extending to base ; a longer similar stripe at ex- 
tremity of cell extending to, and abruptly ending at, the fold between 
first median nervule and submedian nervure ; spots in apical and hind- 
marginal border enlarged and more numerous, a third (superior) being 
added to the inner group of two near costa, — while the apical spot and 
lower group of two are completely merged in a continuous submacular 
band (immediately followed by a lunulate interrupted streak of the 
same silvery tint) running from apex to posterior angle ; costal edge 
brown, with a good-sized silvery mark at base. Hind-iuing : a stripe 
in line with the outer of the two in fore- wing, commencing on costa 
(where it encloses a small silvery spot) before middle, extends across 
extremity of cell to below first median nervule not far from anal angle, 
whence it is deflected at an acute angle to inner margin beyond middle ; 
from base a straight rather narrow brown streak runs between median 
and submedian nervures, and meets the stripe just described before the 
point of deflection ; in hind-marginal border, the upper four spots are 
enlarged and confluent into a wide silvery band, while the lower four 
are small, separate, tinged with bluish, and strongly black- edged : this 
whole series of spots is both preceded and followed by a silvery streak, 
of which the inner is edged internally with black, and the outer stained 
with ochreous-yellow in its lower half. 
$ Like ^, but ivith all the fuscous markings much reduced, especially 
the hind-marginal border, in which the pale spots are greatly enlarged 
(with the exception of the apical spot of the fore-wing) and more 
