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with the emarginations white ; preceding the border a row of oval spots, 

 resembling those of the female of HrMacon, separated or united by the 

 black serrations of the marginal band, and which sometimes are small, 

 in others much larger ; the superior wings are striated with white rays 

 as in the male. 



" Var. a. Female has the outer border confluent with the spots, so 

 that the inferior wings are black, with a large golden-yellow palmated 

 spot, as in Helena, 



" Cochin China, Manilla. (Coll. Boisd.) 



" This species is distinguishable from Ileliacon by the absence of 

 white emarginations in the male, by the narrowness of those of the 

 female, by the size of the red spots on the lower part of the thorax, but 

 above all, by the very triangular form of the hind wings of the male." 

 Boisd. 



Antennae and lees black. Dr. Boisduval omits mentioning that the 

 black atoms on the inferior wings terminate anteriorly in a point, that 

 the discal cell is also covered with fine long black hairs, that the anal 

 margin is very broad and black, and that the anal valves are yellowish 

 white; expanse 5.13 inches. 



My female agrees with Var. a. Boisd. with the addition of three white 

 discal rays and white emarginations on the fore wings; a black tooth, 

 extending from the black macular sub-marginal band up the sub-median 

 interspace of the hind wings; and a sub-marginal row of six yellow 

 spots, very small on the upper surface, much enlarged below, the first 

 three being triangular, and the last three oblong, divided by the nervules ; 

 these spots are mentioned in Lucas' description ; the palmated spot, just 

 before the black anal margin, becomes pale drab : expanse 6j inches. 



Lucas says in his description, that the black border of the male is 

 covered with a fine yellow down, of which I can see nothing in my 

 specimens. He figures this species under the erroneous name of Am- 

 phrisius % ; it is rather less than myS , expanding only 4.75 inches; it 

 it should not have been colored orange near the black marginal band 

 of the hind wings, and the outer angle of the secondaries is too much 

 rounded; otherwise the figure is correct. 



Hab. — Philippines, (In my collection.) 

 India, (Coll. E. I. Co.) 

 Nepaul, Moulmein, Hong-Kong, (Coll. Brit. Mus.) 



