TAl'ILIONID.Ti:. PIEEIN.E. APPIAS. 



sex of J. iirro. On the anterior wings the tliseocellular nervules, and the 

 median nervure from tlie base to its junction witli the lowest median nervnle 

 are narrowly black, all the rest of the veins in the centre of the wings being 

 llavous ; the sinnate dark band which crosses the disk of the female J. vera is in 

 A. flaviii^ narrower, and not interrupted between the lowest median nervnle 

 and the submedian nervure ; the space towards the base of l)otli wings which 

 is irrorated witli dusky scales, is more restricted than in the female J. ucro." 

 Hal). Taganac Island, North-east Borneo (Cator). 



" From a good series of this insect, in which the characteristics above described are uniform, 

 I am induced to consider this variety as vporthy of description. The ordinary form of A. nero 

 was not eaiitiu-ed in tlie island. Some of the male spec.-imeus are more red tliau others, a variation 

 whicli also occurs with A. nero. but in all of them the veins are the same colom- as the rest of the 

 wiuas. In c(_)loration it ajiproaches the variety of A. nero from the Island of Palawan, but it is 

 less bright, though brighter than A. zarinda. Boisduval, from Celebes." 



III.— APPIAS FLOEENTIA. s . Fig. G. ? . Figs. 7, 8. 



Exp. -J.'} inches. 



il/((/('. Upperside, white, with ])lack borders. Anterior wings with the 

 costal region Idack, dusted with white ; apex and hind margin black, most 

 broadly to half the length, and linear towards the hinder angle, tlie adjacent 

 parts of the nervures black, a w'hite bar projecting into the black below the apex. 

 Posterior wings with the black border moderately broad, linear at the apex and 

 along tlie inner margin; the adjacent parts of the nervures black, the white 

 l)rojecting furthest into the border below the apex ; just within the border the 

 white ground colour is thickly dusted with black. 



Underside. Anterior wings white, costa, apex and hind margin black, 

 costa slightly speckled with black, an oval white spot, yellowish externally, 

 before the apex ; hind marginal border linear at the hinder angle. Posterior 

 wings canary-yellow, with a very broad black border occupying two-hfths of the 

 wing ; a large orange spot dusted with black at the apex, divided by the fine 

 subcostal nervure, which is black where it crosses the spot. Below this orange 

 spot the black jjorder jjegins. There is a large orange blotch occupying the 

 middle third of the inner margin, and extending over the inner third of the 

 disc. 



Body white, varied with grey ; antennae and legs black, the former ringed 

 and the latter lined with white. 



