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Show 452 MR. L. DE NICEVILLE ON NEW O R [May 3, larger.-FEMALE. UPPERSIDE : both wings much paler than in the male. Fore wing slightly more truncate than in the male, with the whole apical third of the wing ochreous, on which is placed a round black spot with a white centre in the second median interspace, with one small obsolete ocellus in the interspace below and three above it. Hind wing with the outer margin paler, a round black spot with a white centre in the first median interspace. U N D E R S I D E : both wings with the ground-colour pale purplish, thickly striated with brown. Fore wing with an obscure ochreous fascia before the middle of the wing, a more prominent discal one from just beyond the middle of the costa directed towards the anal angle, which it does not reach ; the ocelli as in the male, but rather larger, the outer margin broadly ochreous. Hind wing with an outwardly curved discal ochreous fascia, its outer margin sharply defined ; the ocelli as in the male ; the outer margin broadly ochreous. Cilia throughout blackish in both sexes. Dry-season form. Expanse. 3 3'3, 2 3'2 to 3*3 inches. M A L E . U P P E R S I D E : both wings deeper black than in the rains form, the outer margins ashy. Fore wing highly falcate; with a large rich ochreous, inwardly almost ferruginous, patch, wide at the costa, narrowed to a point at the first median nervule, outwardly banded by the ashy marginal area, and just extending into the apex of the cell. Hind wing unmarked, the tail much longer than in the rains form. U N D E R S I D E very dark, very irregularly striated; all the ocelli obsolete. Fore wing with a large wedge-shaped subapical pale violet patch, behind which are three obscure straight fasciae compo-ed of pale mottles. Hind wing with the basal half of the wing much darker than the outer half, and sharply defined, a patch of ochreous mottles at the end of the cell. The general character of the markings of the underside is similar to that of M. duryodana, Felder, and as they show but little variation in a long series of specimens, I have described them somewhat minutely. - F E M A L E . U P P E R S I D E : both wings much paler than in the male, and somewhat purplish, with no distinct outer ashy margin. Fore wing even more falcate than in the male, enormously more so than in the corresponding sex of the rains form. The apical two thirds rich ochreous, extending well into the discoidal cell, and reaching the anal angle, enclosing spots as in the female of the rains form, but which, however, so far as the two lower ones are concerned, are vaiiable in size, in one specimen having their black portions much lengthened inwardly ; the outer margin just mottled with ashy. Hind wing with the outer margin narrowly mottled with ferruginous and ashy, a small submarginal white dot in the first median interspace (sometimes present in the male), sometimes with another smaller one in the interspace above. U N D E R S I D E : both wings with all the ocelli obsolete and much paler than in the male, being fer-ruginous- ochreous, fairly evenly covered with blotches of dark brown irrorations ; the fascise as in the fem.de of the rains form, but blackish |