FYMPHALroAE: HELICONINAE. 1815 



of the middle joint and tlie wliole of tlie apical joint black above; over the whole a 

 few scattered black bristles. Antennae dead black with a few inconspicuous white 

 scales at the base of each joint above, a little more conspicuous on the club; the club 

 on its inner naked surface castaneous. Thorax covered above with orange red hairs, 

 beneath with pure white hairs, excepting in two longitudinal, small, oblique streaks 

 apparently covered by the middle and hind femora when these are closely packed beside 

 the body; all the legs cinnamoneous above, the femora white beneath; most of the 

 spines blackish. 



Wings orange tawny, brighter and deeper in the male than in the female ; all the 

 veins of the fore vring marked in black, becoming rather fuscous in the basal fourth 

 of the wing; two round, white pupiled, black spots in the cell, one in the middle of the 

 upper half , the other just outside of it against its lower edge; outer margin of the 

 cell marked by a pair of similar spots, usually confluent, and so forming a black bar 

 depending from the subcostal nervure, broad above and tapering below, with a line of 

 white scales in the centre of the part corresponding to the upper spot ; a row of three 

 oblique, roundish oval spots, the middle one a little outside the line, in the middle of 

 the median and medio-subniedian interspaces in the outer fourth of the wing; veins, 

 especially those below the superior subcostal nervules, heavily bordered with blackish 

 brown, in the median and submedian nervules expanding into a round apical spot, giving 

 the nervules the appearance of large-headed pins. Hind tcings with a broad Ijlack bor- 

 der, more distinct in the upper than in the lower half of the wing, enclosing in each of 

 the interspaces a large, round or roundish, tawny spot, so large as often nearly to in- 

 terrupt the band ; just beyond the middle of the wing in the upper subcostal and upper 

 median interspaces, and especially in the former, is a large black spot of irregular 

 form and a small triangular spot at the extreme base of the subcostal interspace. 



Beneath : fore viings of the same color as above but the whole apex of the wing 

 changing to a dark olivaceous brown ; the black spots of the upper surface not mar- 

 ginal are repeated beneath more or less distinctly, and are always accompanied by a 

 large silvery pupil, excepting the spot in the raedio-subraedian interspace and often 

 excepting also that in the lower median interspace; the dark olivaceous apex is 

 marked near its interior border and next the upper margin with long streaks of pale 

 straw yellow which often run in fine lines dowu the interspaces, but it is more con- 

 spicuously marked with a number of brilliant silvery spots often fiuely black-edged, of 

 which the most important are three, two in the next to the lowest subcostal interspace 

 and one in the subcosto-median interspace ; a small spot in the last superior subcostal 

 interspace is circular, all the others are more or less elongated ; the cloudy black markings 

 which repeat vaguely those of the upper surface at the extremity of the lower median 

 nervules are often enlivened also by silvery spots. Hind wings dark brownish olivace- 

 ous, very brilliantly variegated by large and conspicuous glistening silvei-y spots ; there 

 is one near the base of the margino-costal, costo-subcostal, subcosto-median, medio- 

 submediau, and internal interspaces, in all cases but the costo-subcostal interspace as 

 near the base as possible and with that same exception all very much elongated and all 

 black-edged ; in the middle of the upper subcostal interspace is a very large, long 

 oval spot cut above in the middle by a broad and deep incisure, sometimes entirely, 

 always nearly, severing the spot; in the medio-submedian and submedio-internal in- 

 terspaces are a pair of long oval spots, broadest next the base, the tip of the outer 

 one nearly or quite reaching the margin of the wing ; in the median interspaces is a 

 pair side by side, that in the lower median interspace in the middle of the interspace, 

 that in the upper nearer the base, also elongated, but that in the lower median inter- 

 space to a greater extent ; all these spots are black-edged ; they are followed by a 

 marginal series of silvery lunules of considerable inequality in size, that in the inter- 

 space beyond the cell being particularly large, running half way toward the extremity 

 of the cell and more or less club-shaped. Abdomen above of the color of the upper 

 surface of thewiug; beneath and at the sides white with a lateral orange line. Ex- 

 panse of wings. 70-78 mm. 



The following descriptions of the early stages are those of W. H. Edwards, altered 

 only to conform to the present woi'k : — 



