1864.] 487 



an oblong dash of grayish-blue atoms, and a rectangular yellow spot; a 

 sub-marginal row of yellow lunules ; indentations marked with narrow 

 yellow lines. 



Posterior wings, basal half yellow, divided into spots by the nervules, 

 black and dilated; a large black spot above the sub-costal nervure, just 

 touching the midille of the cell ; exterior balf black, containing a sub- 

 marginal row of large yellow lunules, of which one limb of the fifth 

 extends part way down the tail, which is long and tapering, but blunt 

 at the extremity ; some obscure lunules, formed of bluish-gray atoms, 

 just below the yellow basal half; and a yellow anal spot, containing a 

 black pupil ; expanse 4.08 inches. 



Body : thorax, above black, with two sub-dorsal yellow bands ; abdo- 

 men yellowish-brown above, with an incomplete dorsal black band co- 

 vering the first two segments only ; yellow below. 



Under surface, primaries, paler than above ; general markings the 

 same, though the spots and dashes are much larger ; the sub-marginal 

 lunules are confluent, and separated only by pale brown nervules ; 

 between these and the central band there is a waved grayish line, ex- 

 tending nearly the length of the wing. 



Posterior wings, yellow space larger, veins not so much dilated; upper 

 part of the black portion marked with seven bluish lunules, the fourth 

 and fifth surmounted by two red spots ; the sub-marginal lunules are 

 very large, the first three containing some red atoms, the fourth as- 

 suming a quadrilateral shape ; anal ocellus has the iris orange-red. 



H<ih. — China, (In my collection.) 



" China, Thibet, Persia, Siberia." Boisd. 

 China, Northern Australia, (Coll. Brit. Mus.) 

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



■'At Chusan the perfect insect appears during August and Septem- 

 ber." — Dr. Cantor s JVotes. 



Larva, Cat. Lep. Mus. E. I. Co., I. PI. IV. f. 1. (1857). Copied from De Haan's 

 figure. 



Green, with a velvety black band across each segment; some of 

 these bands are divided laterally, the portions excised on some of the 

 central segments have the form of an irregular sigma^ with the curves 

 reversed ; towards the anal segment the bands are undivided ; towards 

 the head, the part cut oft" is simply a black dot; two long orange-colored 



