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margined black spots at torniis ; the fulvous teimen beyond black patch very 

 narrow at apex, gradually widening posteriorly. UntJerside purplish brown 

 suffused with a shining chalybeous tint in parts. Fore ;ind hindwings crossed 

 by a number of highly sinuous transverse fine dark purple lines more or less 

 narrowly margined with white ; the interspace between the outer two 

 forming an ivrcgulaj- discal band bordered outwardly towards the tornal area 

 in the forewing and along its whole length in the hind wing by a dark reddish- 

 brown shade which is again exteriorly bordered on the hindwing by a broad 

 dark purplish -black line with a row of minute white, then a row of black 

 dots beyond it ; terminal portion of both wings ochraceous-brown. Female 

 njjperside : ground-colour brighter tawny-orange ; a broad, slightly oblique, 

 white discal band transversely crossing forewing and continued on hindwing 

 to vein 6, posteriorly suffused with pale fulvous with some of the dark 

 marking of the underside showing through on the white ground as pale 

 blue lunules ; the broad black termen of the forewing and the black patch 

 of hindwing much as in the male, but the former with a diffuse fulvous 

 spot near tornus. the latter continued in detached spots to the tornal angle 

 and traversed by a series of small white spots ; terminal margin of hindwing 

 dark reddish brown ; the tail at apex of vein 4 spatulate instead of acute. 

 Underside paler than in male but similar ; the discal band pale yellow forming 

 a sinuous band from apex of forewing to tornus of hindwing ; the reddish- 

 brown terminal margin traversed by an obscure ochraceous line on the 

 hindwing bordered inwardly by a band of the same colour. Antennas black ; 

 head, thorax, abdomen reddish-fuivous ; paler beneath. Exp. 92-l()G mm. 



Larva. — The body is somewhat fusiform in shape, or pisciform, broader 

 in the middle, squarely narrower behind, with a large, flat, six-sided head 

 provided with four curved horns; the face is convex somewhat, with a 

 depressed line down the centre ; the two basal angles of the hexagon are 

 rounded, from each of the others there springs one of the four herns, all 

 in the same plane as the face, stout, slightly flattened anteriorly and 

 posteriorly, round topped and covered with little yellow tubercles, rigid and 

 hard ; the outside horns proceed upwards at an angle of 45° with central 

 line of face, are straight till near tip and then curve in towards the central 

 pair of horns slightly ; these latter slightly diverge from each other at first, 

 are straight, bent in at tips ; the tops of outer horns are at same level as 

 tops of inner ones, margin of head between horns has two longish, sharp, 

 spine-like points between the inner pair, brownish-pink in colour like the 

 horns, the others green, there being some between and below all horns ; colour 

 of the head is blue-green with a yellow marginal band flanked behind 

 by a black line. Segment 2 narrower than head with a white mark 

 or collar ; anal end flat and scjuare, the hinder corners produced each 

 into a short, round-topped, conical point, giving appeurance of a fish's 

 tail although the space between the points is very nearly straight : the 

 segment overhangs the claspers. Spiracles whitish oval surrounded by a black 



