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PURPLE HAIRSTREAK. 89
outside corner, the outside edge white, the remainder being
filled in with iridescent purple, more or less extensive and
intense. The hind wings, which have a short tail, are uniform
blackish brown; the outside edge is white.
Underneath, the front wings are bronzed ash-colour, with
a slender white streak shacloAved on the outside with broAvn,
some distance within the outer margin, and following it,
but not all the way; near the lower corner are two orange
fulvous marks, the base of a faint procession of the same upwards,
obscurely visible in some lights. The hind wings are of the
same bronzed ash-colour, with a similar white streak, taking
up that of the fore wings, but slightly curved inwards instead
of following the margin; near the lower corner are two other
orange fulvous spots, the upper one with a black centre, and
the outer one edged at its base with black, which runs on in
a streak to the tail. The antennae are reddish on the lower
side of the clubs.
The female resembles the male, but the purple is obscurely
extended over the black of the upper wings in some lights,
and likewise over the loAver ones, excepting a rather broad
band at the margin.
The caterpillar, which in appearance somewhat resembles
a woodlouse, is short and thick, of a dull rose-red colour,
covered with short hairs, and with seA r eral rows of dark
°;reenish. lines or dots.
The chrysalis is described as being of a shining rusty brown
colour, Avith three rows of brown spots on the back.