TAPILIONINAE: EUPHOEADES TROILUS. 1315 



mai'jtiiial row ami just outsiilo of tlie transverse mesial row of spots to be mciitionccl 

 on tlie lower surface, ami which the translucency of the wing sometimes allows to be 

 seen above; fringe black, interrupted with straw color in the interspaces where the 

 submarginal spots occur, narrowly above, broadly below, doubly on the lowermost. 

 Jliiid wings with a series of six very high, submarginal Innvdes of a pale yellow green 

 or pale blue green, often profusely sprinkled in the centre witli pale straw colored 

 scales, situated in the upper six interspaces, facing downward, the upper also a little 

 outward, their outer edges distant from tlie margin one-cjuarter the width of an Inter- 

 space, excepting the upper ones, which are much further removed from it; tlicre is 

 also a similar lunule in the medio-submedian interspace, but the inner half is bright 

 orange; in the middle of the costo-subcostal interspace is a large, roundish, transverse 

 spot of brilliant orange, edged, excepting outwardly, with a rather broad powdering of 

 whitish or pale bluish scales ; the apical luilf of the wing, nearly to the submarginal 

 luuules and approximately bounded, toward the base, by a line drawn across the wing 

 from the exterior border of the costal orange spot, through the apex of the cell, is 

 either profusely powdered with pale yellow green, or pale blue green scales, most pro- 

 fuse basally, often extending into the cell with a few scattered scales, usually exhibit- 

 ing a few diagonally transverse, open or partially open spots midway between the 

 basal border of the field and the submarginal lunules, in all excepting the two lower 

 median interspaces; replaced by a small, transverse patch of bright metallic blue 

 scales over the internal submarginal luuule ( J) ; or, it is the same, excepting that the 

 apical half of the area is composed more or less of bright metallic blue scales, sprinkled 

 broadly along the nervures in the middle of the wing and especially in the second 

 median interspace with pale yellow green scales ( $ ) ; fringe black, interrupted in the 

 interspaces, more broadly below than above, with very pale straw yellow. 



Beneath blackish brown, the basal two-fifths of the hind wings slightlj' olivaceous 

 dark slate brown, the apical third of the fore wings, above the median nervules, dark 

 slate brown. Fore wings with a submarginal series of pale straw colored spots, the 

 repetition of those of the upper surface ; there is also a submarginal transverse row 

 of similarly colored, irregular, triangular spots in the same interspaces, their outer 

 edges only (the bases of the triangles) well defined and following a very slightly curv- 

 ing course nearly at right angles to the lower median uervule at its middle; there is a 

 double transverse spot of the same color in the middle of tlie apical fourth of the cell 

 and a few very inconspicuous yellowish scales are scattered along the costal border. 

 On the hind wings there is a submarginal row of seven transverse, oval, reddish orange 

 spots (occupying the position of the lunules of the upper surface) edged externally, 

 and generally to a less degree internally, with whitish or pale straw yellow scales ; there 

 is a subparallel mesial row of similarly colored lunule-like spots, six in number (the 

 middle median interspace being omitted), edged rather broadly above with whitish 

 scales, the uppermost spot very large and occupying the position of the orange spot 

 of the upper surface ; the next t\vo much smaller, transverse and approximately semi- 

 circular, the fourth longitudinally subpyriform, the fifth roundish and the last variable, 

 the last three of nearly the same size but scarcely more than half as large as the first ; in 

 the middle median interspace the position of the spot is occupied by a comet-like brush 

 of bright yellow green scales, composed of two slightly separated branches, reaching 

 as far as the submarginal lunule, and having its nucleus composed of a very few dull 

 whitish scales ; it is broadened by a slight pencil of similarly colored scales, emitted 

 from the middle of the adjacent sides of the adjoining spots; occasionally it includes 

 between its branches at the very base a longitudinal orange streak, the remnant of a 

 spot; between these two rows of spots, but separated from both by a belt of velvety 

 black, and broken in the middle median interspace by the two branches of the greenish 

 comet, the whole space is sprinkled with bright metallic blue scales, clustered into 

 distinct, transverse streaks above, becoming less and less frequent posteriorly; fringe 

 as on the upper surface. 



Abdomen glossy black; a lateral row of yellow spots, increasing in size posteriorly, 

 at the base of each of the segments but the penultimate, where it is placed at the tip ; 



