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margin and enclosing a series of greyish-white upper-discal streaks and a submarginal 
row of spots, the upper of both series are slender and elongated, the next two lower 
pairs being each slightly coalescent, and the next lower large and broad ; the cell 
area with grey streaks indicating the dark markings on the underside. Rindwing 
with grey indications of the dark markings of the underside; with a black outer 
marginal dentated band, the angles of which extend more or less up the veins, and a 
more or less apparent submarginal narrow lunular band, thus enclosing a series of 
either slightly-defined or prominent, white, broad outwardly-pointed spots. Under¬ 
side. Forewing greyish-black including the cell area; the discal and marginal 
markings, similar to the upperside, white, except those at the apex, which are yellow, 
the cell area also being marked with white basal streaks and anterior spots. 
Hindwing vinaceous-black, with lemon-yellow broad elongated cell-streak, basal 
costal spot, a discal series of spots increasing in size and length to the abdominal 
margin, followed by a marginal row of rounded spots. Bodny above greyish-white ; 
thorax in front, collar, front, and palpi black, streaked with wdiite; thorax beneath 
black ; legs black and streaked with white ; antennae black. 
Female. Upperside dull vinaceous-black or deep black. Forewing with ill- 
defined whitish or prominent white slender basal streaks and small anterior spots 
within the cell, a discal series of small narrow spots, two elongated slender basal 
streaks below the cell, and a submarginal row of smaller and narrower spots ; the 
upper of each row being elongated and the next pairs slightly coalescent. Hindwing 
with an ill-defined whitish narrow elongated streak within the cell, a discal curved 
series of small narrow spots, which increase in size from the costal to the lower 
median interspace, from whence the whitish area broadly expands upward to the base 
and outward to the abdominal margin, this lower broad area being either sullied 
yellowish-white or pale clear yellow. Underside. Forewing greyish-black, with 
white markings, as on the upperside, except that the apical streaks are tinted with 
yellow, the duplex streak below the cell is wider, and the veins are also slenderly- 
edged with greyish-white. Hindiving olivescent-black, with markings, as on the 
upperside, prominent, and all yellow including a streak at base of the costa. In 
some females, the upperside has more prominent markings, the hindwing a broad 
white cell-streak, larger discal spots, which latter, from the middle median, are also 
more elongated and of a deep diffused yellow colour, and are sometimes coalescent 
with the opposite marginal white spots. And, on the underside, the ground-colour 
is dark vinaceous-black or vinaceous-brown, with the markings of the hindwing 
deeper yellow, the cell streak and the middle discal spots bordered with white. Body 
greyish-black ; abdomen beneath greyish-white; collar, front, palpi, and legs, white 
streaked. 
Expanse, d 3f to 4J, ? 3J to 4 inches. 
