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terminal marks mry hroad, almost cordiform, of a much darker hrovm, 
ivhite edged ; discal spots of transverse row similarly coloured, more or less 
confluenty 07ie or two of them prolonged inivardly ; inner suhmarginal 
roio of vjhite lumdes {very acuminate in hind-iving) in close contact with 
Older edge of discal roiu ; space hetioeen tioo suhmarginal rows also darker 
in hue ; hind-marginal white line distinct, uniting with the outer row 
of lunules to form inwardly-pointed white rings. Fore-wing : first spot 
of discal row minute, close to costa, a little nearer base than the second ; 
all the spots below second more or less elongated inwardly, especially 
the fourth (which almost always touches disco-cellular spot), and the 
seventh, which is much longer than any other, being extended far 
towards base by two small spots (one or both of them sometimes com- 
pletely confluent with it) ; dark space between two suhmarginal rows 
of white lunules broad, pretty even throughout ; lowest hind-marginal 
white ring suffused, ^geminate. Hind-wing : a small, short, narrow 
black streak, externally white-edged, at origin of costal nervure ; a 
sub-basal series of four small black white-ringed spots ; between the 
two middle spots of this row and terminal disco- cellular spot some 
whitish scaling ; first spot of discal row rounded and separate from 
the second, but brown, not black ; second spot also rounded ; all the 
rest (except the last, which is separate, small, rounded, black, and 
inner-marginal) more or less elongate and confluent ; the fourth 
longest, and, with the third, sometimes confluent with disco-cellular 
spot ; hind-marginal black spot between first and second median 
nervules small, outwardly scaled with bluish-silvery, and imperfectly 
ringed with dull ochre-yellow ; a similar smaller spot close to anal 
angle. Cilia more generally white than on upper side, and regularly 
though narrowly interrupted with fuscous at extremities of nervules in 
each wing, 
^ Bidl fuscous, shot from hascs over discs with rather hright violaceous- 
hlue. Fore-iving : blue fills discoidal cell, extends a little beyond it, 
and from base covers inner-marginal and discal area to rather beyond 
middle ; disco-cellular spot considerably wider than in but not very 
broad ; rarely from third median nervule downward, indistinct traces 
of a discal series of elongate spots ; occasionally, more or less indistinct 
indications of the hind-marginal series of whitish rings shown on the 
under side. Hind-iuing : rarely the traces of a disco-cellular spot 
and a discal series of spots about middle ; blue occupies much the same 
area as in fore-wing, but extends farther outward — almost or quite to 
hind-margin ; inner suhmarginal series of whitish lunules usually 
hardly distinguishable in blue suffusion ; hind-marginal rings more 
distinct ; black spot larger, and its yellow lunule better marked. 
Under side. — As in ^. 
Asteris is well characterised by its dark violaceous-blue colouring on the 
upper side, and by the broad, partly confluent, dark-brown markings, con- 
spicuously edged with white, on the under side. The actual specimens on 
