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with two black ocelli or spots, the inner one capped by a silvery lunule. 

 Underside : both wings sulphur-coloured with broad, fulvous facise or bands, 

 each adorned with an interrupted, medial, silver line and bordered with a sub- 

 undulate, black line. Foi'e wing : with the bands six in number ; the two 

 exterior,one marginal, the other submarginal, complete, parallel with the margin, 

 the outer unadorned ; the third diagonal substitute, almost halved ; the fourth 

 complete and bifurcated from near the middle of the disc upwards to costa or 

 there may be two : a short one, diagonal, from the costa to the end of cell and a 

 complete one parallel to it and inside from costa over the drscocellulars to inner 

 margin ; tlu fifth almost halved, broken off towards the anal area ; the sixth 

 basal, also oblique, the shortest of all. Hind wing : also with six fasicfe : the 

 outer two marginal of which the one is interrupted ; the second, complete, 

 archedly produced to inner margin : the third halved, joined with the second 

 at middle ; the fourth and fifth complete, suddenly inflected in the anal region ; 

 the sixth narrow, basal, contiguous to the body ; the anal region fulvous, bear- 

 ing two most black, occellar dots. Expanse : 20-40 mm. 



On the underside of the hind wing, instead of the terminal band there is 

 a row of elongate, black sjjots in the interspaces followed by an anteciliary, 

 fine, black line. Cilia of both wings, above and below, nearly pure white with 

 their extreme bases, black. Two thread-like tails to the hind wing, one directed 

 straight down, the other out diagonally sideways, the one from the end of vein 

 I the longer, the other from vein 2 only half the length, both orange at the 

 base, black in the middle and white at the end. Antennae black, banded finely 

 white on the sides, the top and bottom immaculate ; the club long rounded, 

 the tip orange. Palpi black above, the point of terminal segment orange - 

 tipped, the sides of second joint silvery ; abdomen broAvn above, reddish at 

 sides, banded veiy light yellow ; thorax bluish-grey. All these very light 

 yellow below. There is a slight frmge of longish hairs along the inner margin 

 of the fore wing. 



The above description is more or less that given by de Niceville ur.der 

 Horsefield's name. He says " Variation seems to have simply run riot in 

 this species as exemplified by Ceylon examj^les. There are males entirely 

 black above with no orange bands and others with as many as five on the fore 

 wing. Some males are glossed slightly with irridescent blue on the hind wing, 

 a very unusual feature in this species (Colonel Swinhoe possesses a male from 

 Mhow which is similarly glossed and I have one form Simla, one from Barrack- 

 pur and two from Bangalore), but the markings of the underside undoubtedly 

 proclaim them to be ^4. vidcanns : lastly the markings of the underside vary 

 from broad, almost confluent, deep-red bands to narrow, ochreous ones ; 

 the two short, discal bands on the fore wing are sometimes free, sometimes 

 joined to the third and sixth bands respectively, likewise the fourth band on 

 the hind wing is sometimes free, sometimes joined to the fifth. I have entirely 

 f ailed to split up these varying forms into distinct species as they run one into 

 another in every direotion." Which is all very true. The markings are most 

 variable and it would be next to impossible to make any one description to fit 

 all the vagaries. 



Egg. — Dome-shaped, broadest just above the base. The surface covered 

 with 4 and 5-sided, deep, coarse--\\alled, flat-bottomed cells ; about 6 from 

 top to base, the top cells being the smallest ; all irregular in size ; on apex is 

 a circular, rather large, flat-bottomed depression ; at all intersections of cell 

 walls there is a thickening not amounting to a rising or spine ; surface shining. 

 Colour green with the cells-walls all enamel-white. B : O. 8mm ; H : O. 5mm. 



Larva. — Is an unmistakable ApJmmns in shaj^e. The body is more or less 

 parallel sided, somewhat feebly convex transversely, flattened ventrally ; seg- 

 ments 2 and 14 rather broad ; the former of ordinary segment-shape feebly 

 tansversely convex, somewhat thickened on front margin, indented in dorsal 



