NYMrilALIXAE: CIXCIJDIA lIARRISll. 



G77 



t)()rderod Avitliiii and wiLliout by a broad, blurred, black ed.Lciiii^; the interior limit is 

 irrejj;nlar but has a j^eneral areuate direction from the middle of the costal to the lower 

 median nervnle at an intei'space's distance from its orii^in, and having? a slight inden- 

 tation in the upper sul)costal interspace; at the lower median nervnle, it turns 

 abruptly and diagonally, in a straight line, to the submedian nervure at three-fifths the 

 distance from its origin and then turns upward to the internal, to its former distance 

 from the base; the band is broadest on the upper half of the wing and the exterior 

 border is more regular, extending, subparallel to the outer boi'der, from the costal to 

 the submedian nervure at a distance of about an interspace and a half from the outer 

 border to the tip of either; this band is traversed by distinct, rather regular, black 

 lines : one passes from the costal to the upper median nervnle, barely separated from 

 the interior border; another crosses the same interspaces at a little further remove 

 from the exterior border ; another crosses tiie meilian interspaces near the middle of 

 the band; others cross the upper tip of the band in the medio-submedian and submedio- 

 internal interspaces, and still another crosses the medio-submedian, midway between 

 the upper line and the exterior border; the outer margin is edged Avith black, followed 

 by a series of nearly equal, orange lunulas, largest in the upper two interspaces, all 

 edged with black and followed by a series of black edged, silvery lunules of variable 

 size, encloshig between themselves and the exterior margin of the mesial band, at 

 least from the lower subcostal interspace dowuAvard, large orange spots, having, 

 beyond the middle of each, a small, white-pupilled, black spot; fringe as on the upper 

 sui'face. 



Upper surface and sides of al)domen black, specked slightly with fulvous scales, 

 each segment edged apically with pale tipped fulvous scales; beneath white, the 

 apical half tinged rather strongly with buff; a slender, lateral, black line interrupted 

 at the tips of the segments ; terminal segment tipped Avitli pale orange scales. Clasps 

 of abdommal appendages (34 : 7, 8) fully half as long again as broad, constricted 

 before the extremity ; apical spines somewhat compressed, the lower a little shorter 

 than the upper, both tapering to a fine point and strongly curved; the lower curves 

 first doAvnward, then inward and backward and finally upAvard ; the upper curves first 

 inward and then strongly forward ; interior tooth stouter, also compressed and taper- 

 ing, but not to a point, arched over inward. 



Described from 17 specimens, of which 8 were $ ,19 • 



Suffused variety. A female I saAV iu the collection of the late Mr. H. K. Morrison 

 had the two transverse roAVS of orange spots upon the upper surface of the foreAvings 

 suffused into a common band, Avhose inner limit crossed the middle of the AA'ing, and, 

 besides, the dusky marking of the basal half of both wings much less conspicuous 

 than usual ; but the departure from the normal type Avas inconsiderable and confined 

 to the upper surface. 



.V specimen reared by Mr. EdAvards, south of its proper range, from a caterpillar ab- 

 normally black, had " the fulvous pattern obscured, as if Avashed Avith black." 



Egg (64 : 41). With about twenty-four vertical ribs on the upper half of the egg, 

 becoming slightly less prominent and more uncertain in course in the lower half, being 

 more or less merged in the polygonal depressions which hei'e take the place of the 

 almost imperceptil)le system of cross lines breaking the interspaces between the ribs 

 in the upper half into rectangular cells, not much broader than high; the surface is 

 otherwise smooth. Summit covered Avith a tracery of very delicate reticulations 

 (67 : 14) forming polygonal, and generally, especially as they approach the centre, 



