.Inniiary, 1806.] 



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DESCRIPTION OF A NEW SPECIES OF BUTTEllPLY BELONGING TO 

 THE FAMILY LTC^NIDJE. 



BX A. G. BUT LEE, F.Z.S. 



AphncBUS if) Marmoreus, n. sp. 



? . TJpper-side. Fore-wings. Basal half white, tinted with pale 

 blue at the base ; apical half brown, deeply trisinuated within, and en- 

 closing two sub-apical white spots ; extreme edge of hind-margin and 



cilia deep brown ; anterior margin 

 pale grey -brown ; a triangular brown 

 spot just below, and before the mid- 

 dle of the second branch of the 

 median nerve. 



Hind-wings. Sub - triangular, 

 white, with two tails, the longer one 

 at the extremity of the sub-median 

 nervure ; nervures and base tinted 

 with pale blue ; apex broadly brown, 

 deeply sinuated within, and terminating at the second branch of the 

 median nervure ; the remainder of the hind-margin sub-marginatcd by 

 three deep brown oval spots between the nervures ; an indistinct greyish 

 band a short distance from, and following the direction of, the hind- 

 margin ; extreme edge of hind-margin and tails dark brown ; inner 

 margin deeply excavated just above the anal angle; fringe white, varied 

 with brown at the terminations of the nervures. 



Body. Thorax pale blueish, abdomen white ; head white, antennae 

 brown, barred with white below, tips reddish ; palpi, lower half white, 

 upper half brown above, white beneath. 



Under-side. Fore-wings. White, front and hind-margiua pale 

 grey-brown ; a quadrate black spot within the cell near the base ; a 

 black curved line crossing the wing just beyond the middle of the cell, 

 broadest upon the cost a, and tapering to near the inner margin ; a small 

 black line at the end of the cell ; a large irregular brown blotch-like 

 band near the apex, beginning on the costa and terminating at the 

 second median nervule ; two brown spots placed obliquely, from just 

 before the middle of the second median nervule, towards the anal angle; 

 a wavy sub-marginal brown line near the outer margin ; extreme edge 

 of outer margin brown ; fringe brown. 



Hind-wings. "White ; nervures irrorated with greyish ; a marginal 

 band of greyish, and a sub-marginal wavy line of brown, near tlie outer 

 margin ; cell crossed by a short narrow black band, and closed by a 



