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much darker than outer two ; on fore- wings basal part 

 of central area black ; on hind-wings on!}- lightl\- 

 sprinkled with black in centre. Abdomen, segment i 

 blue above, with black spot ; 2 to 7 with 9 and 10 

 black above ; 8 blue ; sutures between segments 2 to 7 

 yellow, dorsall)' interrupted ; ventral surface of i to 6 

 yellow, with mid-line black, of 7 to 10 blue. Anal 

 appoidages black ; upper as small lobes curving out- 

 wards and downwards, and ending in a blunt point, 

 not prominent ; lower short, slender, blunt, divergent. 



Female Imago. 



The tyjMcal form resembles the male very closely 

 indeed. The ptcrostigiiia of all the wings is like that 

 of the hind-wings of the male ; small ventral spine on 

 distal margin of eighth segment. Aiial appendages short, 

 black, conical. Ovipositor red, rather short, reaching 

 about to the end of the tenth segment, l^alves with 

 margin rounded, broad, about as long as ovipositor. 



Immature Colouring. 



Before maturit}' is reached the blue colouring is 

 replaced by greyish-green, except in the orange variety 

 of the female. 



Variation. 



Besides the marked variation in size, there is a constant 

 form of the female in which the parts of head thorax 

 not black, and first and second segments of the 

 abdomen, are bright orange. On the meso- and meta- 

 thorax almost the only part not orange is a broad 



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