1S64.] 473 



•• The male of P. Erifhoinus is without the blue luuule," uot entirely 

 wanting in my specimens. "The female has it; and both sexes vary 

 in having or not having one or two spots outside the closing vein of the 

 discoidal cell of the lower wing ; beneath, the markings in both are 

 nearly identical, lunule and all." * 



Below, same general markings as above, on the fore wings, but rather 

 paler; base covered with yellowish-white i-adii ; a sinuous line of ful- 

 vous atoms near the apex. Hind wings, anterior part, entirely yellow- 

 ish-white, crossed by a transverse black line, and divided into spots by 

 the black nervures. Posterior portion of wings black, containing in its 

 upper portion six orange spots, margined anteriorly with blue, five form- 

 ing a sinuous transverse line, and the sixth, a lunule in the discoidal cell J 

 the costal black spot contains a blue lunule, bordered with fulvous in- 

 wardly ; anal spot the same as above ; the sub-marginal lunules and 

 marginal indentations are much larger than on the upper surface; ex- 

 panse 3.5 — 3.88 inches. 



Body, black above, powdered with yellow atoms, with a yellow line 

 on each side of the head and thorax ; below, yellowish. 



Hah. — (^hina, India, Phillippines, (In my collection.) 

 China, Bengal, (Coll. Boisd.) 

 Canara, Calcutta, Penaug, (Coll. E. I. Co.) 

 Northern India, Penang, Ceylon, (Coll. Brit. 3Ius.) 



" Occurs in the Deyrah Dhoon, and likewise in the Hills during sum- 

 mer. I have received it from Madras, and frequently took it at Nee- 

 much, in Western India." -f 



This species is subject to considerable variation, even in what is 

 usually considered its normal condition. I have already referred to the 

 diiFerences in the transverse band of the hind wings on the upper surface, 

 and there is also some in the shape and size of some of the spots on the 

 fore wings ; but it is on the under surface that we see the greatest va- 

 riations ; the fore wings are comparatively uniform, with the exception 

 that there are two yellow spots near the extremity of the cell, which 

 are sometimes united ; on the hind wings there is great difference in 

 the size of the sub-marginal lunules, sometimes being so large as to 



«R. Templeton, Esq., Trans. Ent. Soc. V. p. 44. (1847). 

 t<'apt. T. Hutton, Proc. Ent. Soc. V. p. 48. (1847). 



