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black, somewhat coalescent spots overlaid with metallic blue scaling ; the 

 costal margin above the subcostal vein and vein 7 black ; this colour 

 filling also the base of interspace 6, where in some specimens it is divided 

 into a basal portion with a spot beyond ; a postdiscal, curved, transverse, 

 black band followed by a subterminal, transverse series of black spots, 

 each spot edged inwardly and outwardly by very slender huiules of the 

 white ground-colour ; on the inner side of the postdiscal band posteriorly 

 is a broken line of four black, generally coalescent spots two and two, the 

 two upper often touching the postdiscal band. Underside : white. Fore 

 wing : a long obliqvie, black band under vein 12 from base outwards to 

 the costa ; below and parallel to it an irregular, broad, black, somewhat 

 conical mark ; following these are two outwardly oblique, medially-inter- 

 rupted, black, macular bands ; the inner of the two extended from costa 

 along the discocellulars, is then widely interrupted below its posterior 

 portion that is formed of two elongate, coalescent spots and touches (or 

 not) the inner, subterminal transverse line of elongate spots just above the 

 tornus ; the outer, obliquely-placed line is subapical and medially broken, 

 the middle portion consisting of a quadrate spot is shifted outwards ; 

 finally, two parallel, subterminal, transverse series of black, elongate spots ; 

 the inner spots broad, more or less rectangular, the outer series linear, the 

 latter coalescent anteriorly with a slender anteciliary black line. Hind wing : 

 a transverse, basal, black band, with an elongate black spot below it on 

 the dorsum ; a transverse, subbasal line of four well separated black 

 spots ; a transverse, oval, discocellular, black spot and, obliquely above it, 

 three subcostal similar spots, the inner two coalescent ; postdiscal and 

 terminal markings consist, the former of four black posterior spots two and 

 two, each pair coalescent and placed en Echelon, the latter of a transverse 

 double series of subterminal, black spots and an anteciliary, black line ; 

 the upper portion of the postdiscal markings touches the inner subterminal 

 line. Cilia of both fore and hind wings white alternated with black at the 

 apices of the veins ; filamentous short tail to the hind wing black tipped 

 with white. Antennae, head, thorax and abdomen black, the shafts of 

 the antennte ringed with white and club tijjped with orange, the head 

 between the eyes (frons) and behind them white ; beneath : the palpi, 

 thorax and abdomen white, the last barred broadly with white on the 

 sides. Female : similar to the male but with the black markings on the 

 upper and under sides broader. Expanse : Male and female, 28-34 

 mm. 



Ufff/. — Hemispherical, white in colour, the surface finely reticulated with 

 raised, thin lines forming cells, the intersections rising into high, round- 

 topped cones with a minute depression on the top of each: 9 of these cones 

 from top to bottom and 18 round the greatest circumference. B : O. 

 75 mm. 



Larva. — Is of the usual shape, somewhat flattened, broadest about 

 segment 4 with the dorsal line hardly convex from segment 4 to anal end : 

 segment 2 more or less semicircular in outline and slightly constricted at 

 hinder margin, the dorsal depression hexagonal and long with its greatest 

 length on dorsal line, its bottom slightly convex, greyish-blue and sparsely 

 covered with minute, dark, star-topped hairs ; second segment not at all 

 hidden by segment 3, nor suddenly lower than it , the dorsal outline from 

 front to hinder end is quite continuous and even except for the slight 

 constrictions between the segments 2-12 ; segment 3 slightly broader than 

 2 and segment 4 than 3 ; breadth of body gradually diminishing thence ti 

 anal end which is broadly rounded ; segment 13 short, hardly distinguish- 

 able from 12 or 14, the last with the 13th having the shape in outline of a 

 quarter of a circle ; organs of segment 12 large, circular, the protrusi- 



