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a peculiar shape. The median band of the hind wing is widened in cellules 4 and 5 and on the under surface the hindwing has always broad red streaks in the cell and in cellule 8 and at the distal margin the whitish marginal spots are proximally prolonged into red, black-edged streaks and the veins bordered by grey lines. Forewing beneath reddish to yellow-brown in the cell and at the base of cellule 1 b-In the typeform
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