264 THE BUTTERFLIES OF THE 



line shows the open W mark, but the inner is broken at 

 the second median venule, both extending some distance 

 up the inner margin. The black spot between the tails 

 is repeated, another at the anal angle, the space between 

 these spots, the line and the edge of the wing, being filled 

 with blue and black scales. Next to the outer line are 

 three orange crescents, one before each black spot, and 

 one in the first median interspace. At the end of the 

 cell on both wings is a short double bar edged on both 

 sides with white. 



Var. Loeata, Gr. — Rob. — This is a form in which 

 the under side has an extra basal streak common to 

 both wings, composed of powdery dark blue scales. 

 This is slightly irregular, and is lost inferiorly among 

 the longer scales which clothe the inner margin of the 

 hind wings. 



The larva, according to Mr. Wm. Saunders, has the 

 head small, pale greenish yellow, with a minute black 

 dot on each side. Body yellowish green, streaked above 

 with yellowish white, and thickly covered with fine, 

 short, white hairs ; second joint of a darker shade of 

 green than the rest of the body. A dark green dorsal 

 stripe on joints 3 to 5, the full width of the dorsal crest; 

 narrow on the four terminal joints, almost obsolete on 

 those intermediate. A faint whitish dorsal line runs 

 through the entire stripe. Dorsal crest edged with yel- 

 lowish white, most apparent where it borders the darker 

 portions of the dorsal stripe. Sides of the body with a 

 few faint oblique lines of yellowish white. Body mar- 

 gined on each side with the same color close to the under 

 surface, extending round the posterior joint. 



After the last moult the body becomes more whitish 



