DESCRIPTION. 



Body above black, with a yellow line each 

 side, passing over the origin of the wings, and 

 over the head each side before the eyes : supe- 

 rior wings yellow, costal margin black with 

 four black bands, of which the three exterior 

 ones are abbreviated; exterior broad margin 

 black with a series of small white spots and 

 white crenulations on the edge; beneath, the 

 colours are paler, and the dots of the exterior 

 margin are much larger : inferior wings yellow ; 

 posterior portion black, with six lunules on the 

 margin yellow, the first and last fulvous, the 

 edge deeply crenated, the crenations white; 

 anal angle fulvous edged with white, and with 

 a bright green lunule above, and one or two 

 green spots near it; disk, with an oblique black 

 band, proceeding from the basal band of the 

 superior wings, abbreviated near the black por- 

 tion of the wing, and curving round and re- 

 turning upward along the inner margin; tail 

 moderate ; beneath somewhat like the superior 

 page, but the radiating lines proceeding from 

 the discoidal cellule are black, the marginal 

 lunules are much larger, and have a large ful- 

 vous spot in the middle of each, the black por- 



PL.ATE 40. 



