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greenish lunules, sometimes yellow-tinged, always more or less obli- 
terated towards costa, and sometimes quite obsolete^ except two or three 
imperfect lunules near anal angle ; a little before these lunules is a row 
of pale-blue spots, of which only two large ones at anal angle are 
usually visible ; tails on third and first median nervules slender, rather 
long, black, the former the longer of the two. Under side. — Eicli 
chocolate-red, with numerous white margined, metallic-centred, blackish 
tra7isverse strice and spots ; the torinsverse white land very conspicuous, 
glistening, continuous throughout. Fore-wing : five of the white-margined 
striae described on costa, — three in discoidal cell, one at its extremity, 
and one beyond middle, its lower end touching transverse white band ; 
three similar strige heloiu cell, — one immediately beneath the third stria 
in cell, the other two (whose outer white edging is merged in trans- 
verse band) situate one above, the other below, second median nervule; 
two faint-blackish marks in transverse, glistening-white band, close to 
costa ; beyond white band, the ground-colour is more ochreous in tint, 
and marked with a transverse row of triangular, or sub- triangular, 
blackish marks, outwardly edged with glistening-whitish (except the 
two last and largest, below first median nervule, which are contiguous, 
and edged outwardly with greyish-blue) ; on hind-margin, a greyish 
mark at extremity of each nervule, and a yellowish tinge between ner- 
vules ; before transverse white band, and touching it, beneath third 
median nervule, a large, somewhat quadrate, blackish spot, 7iot with a 
metallic centre ; the space between it and base dull ochreous. Hind^ 
wing : at base, on costa, an elongate spot, coloured similarly to stria3 
in fore-wing, and like them margined with glistening white ; inner- 
marginal edge bordered with a black, inwardly white-margined streak 
near base, where its outline is most strongly convex ; obliquely crossing 
the deeply -grooved portion of wing are three elongate glistening strise, 
like those above described, white-margined on both sides, the second 
and third united by a curve at their lower and outer extremity (where, 
close to inner margin, they meet the broad transverse white band), — 
and the third likewise united, by a curve in the opposite direction 
from the same extremity, to a similar elongate streak lying in the 
fold where the swelling of the side of the groove commences ; this 
latter streak seems continuous of a transverse row of three short, 
similarly coloured, contiguous marks from costa, which it meets on 
median nervure, very little removed from base ; near end of cell is a 
similar, curved streak, which is continued downwards and outivards by 
a further streak of the same colours, that, touching the streak lying 
in the fold of wing, suddenly curves upivard at its extremity, where 
it meets white transverse band ; broad, transverse white band more 
glistening than that in fore-wing, more sharply defined than on upper 
side, continued conspicuously to inner-margined edge, a little before anal 
angle, edged inwardly by a row of metallic-centred, small spots of 
variable size (the outer portion of whose white margins is merged with 
