( 571 ) 



i'ormiug' a patch iu which the pale glaucous blue subiuargiuul transverse, more or less 

 Inuii'orm, spots are placed ; patches R' — M' gradually decrease in size, the posterior 

 ones rounded; admarginal transverse spots concave at both sides, pale glaucous, the 

 anal oue yellow or olivaceous yellow, not wider than the others: abdominal fold 

 greyish at edge of wing, with a black spot beyond tip of SM", corresponding to median 

 bar SM'' — SM^; fringe white except at tip of veins; tails pointed, upper one (J mm. 

 long, second 5 mm. 



Undersick' : interspaces russet- and walnut -lirown, in margin.al region olive. 



Forewing : cell-bar 'i very heavy, :J or 4 mm. broad behind, thinly bordered white 

 proximally; cell-bar 4 curving from upper to lower angle of cell, much thinner, 

 interspace white; discocellular bar thin; no submedian bars, or bar M- — (SM') 

 marked as a dot; median bar M- — (SM') mostly present in form of a large dot, bars 

 M' — M'- absent ; white discal band as broad as above, nearly reaching to base of JP; 

 median bars K* — M" continuous with each other (or nearly so), both Iiordered white 

 <listally; median bars SC" — R' rather heavy, with broad white continuous patches 

 at their distal side ; discal black bars much better defined than in preceding species, 

 jjosterior ones more or less straight, upper five luniform, curved distad, bar R- — R^ 

 much less proximal than iu caphontis and cpiyfita ; postdiscal bars russet-chesluut, 

 e.xcept submedian ones, which are black and form together a mark similar to tlie 

 number 3; interspaces between discal and postdiscal bars white, iu submedian cellule 

 glaucous owing to the black colour of the scales of the under layer; submargiual 

 white dots well-marki^l, oversjiaded with silvery white scaling, which extends to 

 the postdiscal bars and joins at the veijis llie white postdiscal interspaces, glaucous 



in submedian cellule. Hindwing : basal region dark cinnamon-rufous, abdominal 



region paler; wliite discal band ID — 11 mm. wide at costal edge of wing, narrowing 

 to (SM') and curving round to abdominal margin, where it is dilated, 1^, mm. broad 

 at M-, not extended to black discal Inuules; liue of median bars, bordering the band 

 proximally, convex, slightly broken at SC', of nearly even width, but bars 

 (SM') — SM^ wider; the submedian bars form a nearly straight line, curving distad at 

 costal margin, reaching to M, but the broad white proximal border extending to near 

 median bars M- — SM-; a black line upon SM- and SM' from near base to median 

 bars, bordered white at both sides ; discal bars thin, the bluish white Innnles 

 separating them from the postdiscal red spots heavier; these spots very different 

 in shape from those of epigencs, resembling those of pi/rrhas, the upper straight, 

 linear, the following slightly luniform, much paler than the others, the last three 

 strongly luniform, spots C — S( '- and R'— SM- Iiordered black externally, spots 

 S(J2_R3 bordered more or less wliite, the black postdiscal bars being here nearly 

 absent; snbmarginal intersi>aces wood-brown; submargiual black spots heavy, more 

 or less ovate, with the white submargiual spots as proximal ill-detiucd borders, 

 which appear bluish where the whitish scales lie upon the black spots: admarginal 

 interspaces occupied by yellow biconcave bars, with bluish scaling at the ends 

 of the veins. 



? . Like the S , Init larger. 



Length 6 forewiug, costal margin 4:i nun., internal margin :iO mm. 



„ ,, hindwiu?. „ '-''i ., .. -"■' .> 



„ ? forewing, ,. oO „ „ 36 „ 



„ ,, hindwing, ,, 33 ,. „ 30 „ 



IlaO. JS'ew Caledouia and Loyalty Ishuids : Lilu, '<) 6 6,1 ¥. 



