PArirJOXILXE. PIERIX.E 



CALLOSUNE I. 



I.— CALLOSUNE BACCHUS. $ . Figs. 1, 2. $ . Figs. 3, 4. 



Temcolus Bacchus, Butler, " Proceedings of the Zoological Society of Loudon," 

 1888, p. 73. 



Exp. 1\ to 1\ inches. 



" Male. "Wings aliove white ; primaries with narrow l)lack costal margin ; 

 the hasc sprinkled with hlack scales ; apical area l)]ne-hlack, with dentate- 

 sinuate inner edge, and crossed hy a wide helt of hrilliant changeahlc piirple 

 (wider and bluer than in T. Imic) ; the spot at end of cell scarcely visible, 

 reduced to two or three scales ; secondaries white, with blackish veins terminat- 

 ing in minute black spots on the outer margin. 



" Wings below white, the apex of primaries and whole of secondaries very 

 pale sulphur-yellow, crossed by well-defined black veins terminating in small 

 subconfluent black spots on the outer margin ; costal margin of primaries 

 black ; a Ijlack dot at the end of the cell ; secondaries with the basal half of the 

 costal margin yellow; a. black transverse dash from costal to subcostal vein, 

 forming the commencement of an ill-defined oblique stripe, indicated liv 

 scattered black scales as far as the third median liranch. 



" Female. "White above, the base rather ])roadly iirorated with blackish 

 scales ; primaries with the costal margin black ; a broad external blackish 

 border crossed liy black veins, widest at costa, gradually diminishing in width 

 from costa to first median branch, to which point it is internally dentate- 

 sinuate, and traversed by six white spots in an arched series, narrow and 

 internally widely sinuated from first median branch to submedian vein ; a black 

 spot at the end of the cell ; a transverse blackish spot at external third ol' 

 iuterno-median area ; secondaries with a marginal series of large subconfluent 

 blackish spots crossed liy black veins; a lilackish subapical ol)li(jue stripe from 

 costa, connected with the macular border by black veins ; body quite normal. 



"Primaries below white, the costa and apical area pale yellow; veins 

 towards outer margin dark brown ; a subapical series of angulated brown 



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