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NYMPHALIN^. {Gronv EUTSAZIiyA.) 113 



cilia black alternated with white. Foretving with black-lined cell-marks, the two 

 outer v/ith scarlet interspaces, and the inner mark sometimes outwardly edged by a 

 short white streak ; a black mark below the cell ; three transversely-disposed small 

 semidiaphanous white spots beyond the cell, followed by a discal recurved series of 

 six, or seven, similar spots, the two lowest being more or less obscurely defined ; 

 beyond is a submargiaal indistinct black lunular fascia. Hindwinc/ with the costal 

 border paler ; a black-lined cell mark, a discal row of black-bordered scarlet spots, 

 and a submarginal row of black spots, of which latter row the three anterior spots 

 and the anal spot are externally bordered with scarlet ; sometimes the three anterior 

 spots, in both sexes, are connected with the three discal upper spots by a continuous 

 intervening scarlet streak. Underside. Foreioing greenish purplish-brown, washed 

 with ochreous-brown apically; markings as on upperside, but more prominent. 

 Eindioing greenish ochreous-browu ; the scarlet spots very prominent and some- 

 times with scarcely any black border ; the costal and abdominal border of the wing 

 is hned with scarlet, and there ai-e two black cell-marks and two marks above the 

 cell, each being centred with scarlet. 



Female. Upperside slightly paler than the male. Forewing with an oblique 

 discal macular greenish-white band, composed of irregular-shaped spots, of which 

 the three upper are small, the next larger and elongated, the fifth much larger and 

 obliquely broader, the two lower being respectively small ; the interspace between 

 the discoidal marks also white, and thus f oi^m an inner portion of the band ; beyond 

 is a series of three, sometimes a fourth, lower smaller white spots before the apex. 

 Eindwing marked as in the male. Underside paler than in the male. Foreioing 

 greyish at the base, apex ochreous-brown, posterior angle gi-eenish-gi-ey ; with 

 macular white band and subapioal spots, and scarlet marks, as above. Hindioing 

 with discal and submarginal scarlet-centred spots and basal markings, and scarlet 

 borders as in the male, but less prominently defined. Body and palpi above dark 

 greenish-brown, beneath and legs greyish-brown ; collar, side of palpi, and front of 

 fore tibiae and tarsi streaked with scarlet. 



Expanse, 6 2^q to 2i^o. ? 3 to Z^o inches. 



Caterpillar. — Chilopodiform ; elongated ; armed with ten pairs of long 

 horizontally-projected very delicately-branched spines. Colour grass-green, with a 

 dorsal row of large purple-brown angulated spots, each with or without a small pure 

 white diamond-spot in its middle, these dorsal spots being placed on the anterior 

 half of the 4th, 6th, 7th, 9th, 10th, 11th, and 12th segments; the lateral spines 

 green, tipt with purple-brown. 



Chrysalis. — " Similar to E. Gamda ; green, but with two lateral brown marks, 

 each with a dirty-white centre, and two brown points equally with whitish centres 

 between these and the terminating projection " (A. Grote). 



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