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of the black area ; au indistinct arcuated spot beneath cell, and two somewhat waved linear si)ot3 

 separated by the third median nervule ; the dark area contains the following white markings :— four spots 

 a little beyond end of cell, of which the third is very small; beyond these are three larf,'e lanceolate 

 spots, indistinctly margined with white, divided by the discoidal nervules, and outwardly followed by 

 a series of five small spots situate between the nervules ; a very large and irregular subquadrate spot 

 bounded by the first and third median nervules ; a small lunate spot beneath the third median nervule, and 

 a submarginal row of large but somewhat obscure Innately linear spots. Posterior wings bright red, with 

 the outer margin broadly black, which is inwardly bordered with a series of irregular spots of the same 

 colour, and with nine or ten scattered and irregular black spots on the ])asal area ; the broad black 

 marginal border contains two small red spots divided by the discoidal nervule, and a submarginal series 

 of large pale, but obscure Innately linear spots. Anterior wings beneath much paler, the black apical area 

 being browuish-ochraceous ; cell crossed as above, but the colour between the black fasciie violaceous, 

 all the white markings either larger or more distinct, the lanceolate spots beyond cell being wholly greyish 

 white, containing inwardly an ovate, linear black spot, and outwardly two rounded black spots ; the 

 marginal Innately linear spots paler and with central pale lines. Posterior wings paler and of the same hue 

 as the anterior wings, with a black subcostal line at base surrounded with greyish ; an oblique greyish 

 fascia near base margined with black, each margin with a double termination at abdominal margin ; 

 a similar greyish fascia crossing centre of wing, with much-broken black margins, the outer of which is 

 very pale ; a broad greyish outer discal fascia containing a series of small black spots near its outer 

 margin, which is black, and with a similar but poorer and more irregular series near its inner margin, 

 which is also more or less black ; outer marginal lunate spots as on anterior wings, but more broadly 

 margined with black. Body more or less reddish ochraceous. 



Female. Almost indistinguishable from the male, but with the white markings of the anterior wings 

 a little larger. 



Exp. wings, 73 millim. 



Hab. — Malay Peninsula; Province Wellesley (coll. Dist.). 



This species is most nearly allied to C. uicoharica, Felcl., which is found both in the 

 Andaman and Nicobar Islands ; it is somewhat intermediate between that and the foUowino: 

 species, C. incthypsea. 



2. Cethosia methypsea. (Tab. VIII., fig. 9 J .) 



Cetliosia methi/psea, Butler, Trans. Liun. Sec. ser. 2, Zool. vol. i. p. 543, n. 1 (1877). 



Male. Anterior wings above resembling those of C. loiiani, but the basal reddish area less black- 

 spotted and the apical black area crossed a little beyond cell by an oblique series of six pale spots 

 (ochraceous-white or greyish-white) placed between the nervules, the upper three being minute, and the 

 fifth and sixth notched with black ; between the lower spot and the costa is a waved outer series of fom- 

 small spots.* Posterior wings with the outer black margin narrower than in C. logani, and without the 

 numerous black discal spots. Wings beneath with the ground colour and the cellular markings of the 

 anterior wings generally as in the preceding species ; anterior wings with a broad oblique ochraceous-white 

 or greyish-white fascia a little beyond the cell, the upper part of which is margined with small black spots, 

 which are then deflexed and obliquely continued across wing, where they become the inner margin of an 

 oblique discal subtriangular pale fascia ; both these fascise are also outwardly margined with blackish, and 

 the upper one terminates in a narrow pale submarginal fascia, which contains a series of black spots ; 

 outer margin much as in C. loi/ani. Posterior wings with the basal and subbasal fasciae as in the preceding 



* These have beeu omittetl by the artist. 



