584 INSECTS ABROAD. 



represents a male, wliich is coloured as follows. The ground 

 hue is yellowish white, upon which are drawn a number of dark 

 brown stripes and marks. There is a large scarlet patch at the 

 anal angle of the lower wings, and the tail is slightly powdered 

 with blue. Below, the colour is much the same, except that the 

 patch on the lower wings is black, and has only a slight streak 

 of red running through its middle. 



In order to show the contrast which often exists between 

 the colour of the two sexes, the female of the same species 

 is given on the opposite page. In this sex the colours are quite 



Fio. 327.— Sereeinus Montela. Male. 

 (White, brown, and scarlet.) 



as conspicuous as those of the male, though there is about them 

 that almost indefinable dimness which is generally to be found 

 in female Lepidoptera. 



The upper wings are brown, and are marked with three dis- 

 tinct rows of yellow spots running in a line with the outer edge, 

 several streaks of the same hue being between the third row and 

 the base of the wing. The lower wings are coloured after the 

 same fashion near the base, but at the anal angle there is an 

 interrupted band of blue, above which is a row of crimson 

 marks. The tails are black, and there is a patch of bright 

 yellow at the base. 



