( -'M ) 



account of this black streak the partition R' — M' is somewhat hook- or liammer- 

 shaped; the (distal) dilated portion of the partition is often joined to spot R- — R', 

 the partition is seldom not wider distally than proximally, the partition then being 

 reduced to a streak along M' : spots SC^ — R^ obliqnc to each other, about midway 

 between discal spot R- — R'' and postdiscal series of spots ; this series stands 

 obli(jue, approaching the onter edge of the wing posteriorly, it consists of seven 

 or eight spots, the first is small or absent, the fourth, R- — R', is smaller than those 

 before and behind it and more discal, the posterior ones are mostly luniform, the 

 last sometimes pale blue, occasionally small, the last two often fused to a W-shajied 

 sj)ot: there is, besides, often a patch of yellowish white or pale blue scales at internal 

 margin close to angle of wing ; a submarginal series of seven or eight more or less 



elongated small spots parallel to outer margin of wing. Hiudwing : discal baud 



as variable in width as on forewing, in the 'narrow-banded forms broader than on 

 forewing, its outer edge (taken as a whole) varying from being evenly convex, 

 nearly ]iarallel to outer margin of wing, to being quite straight ; basal area of wing 

 white or black, with every intergradatiou in the extent of black, the black area often 

 prolonged towards anal angle along (SM'); abdominal fold all white, or with a 

 black or blackish patch beyond tip of SM^ ; a black disco-submarginal baud of very 

 variable width, generally with a series of pale blue Innulos near its inner edge 

 (corresponding to the outer border of the discal series of bars), and with a series of 

 eight white submarginal spots ; of the latter the uppermost is largest, the seventh 

 is small, the eighth thin, linear, the last two more or less suffused with pale blue ; 

 admarginal, biconcave, vellowish white, interspaces heavy, distally, or at least at 

 veins, more or less heavily shaded with pale blue, the pale blue scaling extending 

 into tails, which are long and pointed ; edge of wing black, except between M'' and 

 SM'-, where the margin has seldom black scales ; fringe at internervular folds more 

 or less restricted white. 



Underside chalky white, glossy, discal area slightly yellowish. Forewing : 



cell with two, mostly heavy, black dots, which are sometimes again subdivided, the 

 last about on a level with base of M^, or more distal ; cell-bar 4 angle-shaped, 

 reaching M about half-way between M' and M'-, and SC close to upjier angle of cell. 

 snbmedian bars M' — (SM') short, forming a prolongation of cell-bar; bar M- — (SM') 

 fused with the resp. median bar; median bar M' — M- slightly curved or straight 

 reaching M' close to base or even toncliing M ; median bar R^ — M' a little more 

 distal, very oblique, parallel to R', but its distal end curved suddenly towards R^, 

 the interspace between these bars, the cell-bar, bar U and vein W tawny olive (or 

 more yellow), the figure thus formed resembling the letter Y ; median bar R- — R' 

 fused with bar D ; bars SC° — R^ present, or partly or totally absent, standing about 

 at one-third or one-fourth the way from cell to apex of wing ; an oblique, almost 

 straight, tawny yellow baud (varying in tint) of 1 \ and 3 mm. width expands 

 between costal and internal margins, beginning about half-way between cell and 

 apex and reaching SM- 7 to lu mm. from tip of that vein ; this band is bordered 

 distally by a complete series of black discal bars, which are more or less luniform, 

 seldom straight ; the bars M-— SM- fused together, followed behind SM- often by 

 a black jiatch ; posterior postdiscal black bars more vestigial, bars M-'— SJl- often 

 well marked, angle-shaped, the interspace between them and the discal bars often 

 blackish or bluish ; these postdiscal bars correspond to the onter edge of the 

 yellowish white postdiscal spots of the upperside, which are also on the underside 

 more or less indistinctly marked, as are also the white submarginal spots ; margin 



