interrupted, and abbreviated fulvous band and 

 several pale fulvous spots ; posterior margin black, 

 immaculate; beneath as above, but the spots 

 are of a purer white; inferior wings entire, 

 sometimes a little crenate, fulvous, w^ith a black 

 posterior, and half of the exterior margins black, 

 the former w^ith a double row^ of w^hite spots, 

 of w^hich those of the middle are sometimes 

 nearly obsolete, outer margin with a single 

 series of three or four white spots ; nervures of 

 the disk margined with fuscous, with an ele- 

 vated spot behind the middle, on the third 

 nervure from the inner margin; beneath ochre- 

 ous, in other respects resembling the superior 

 surface, but the spots are of a purer white and 

 larger, the nervures are more dilated, black, 

 edged more or less deeply with white : body 

 black, with numerous white dots on the trunk, 

 and a few on the head, and neck above : feet 

 blued black. ^ 



OBSERVATIONS. 



The black margin of the superior surface of 

 the wings has an opalescent gloss in a particular 

 light. The larva is annulate with black and 

 white, with two slender processes on the ante- 



PLATE 54. 



