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blackened, raised crest ; abdomeu ioug, slender, pale grey- 

 gi'een, slenderly banded on each segment witb black ; on the 

 basal segment is a conspicuous greeuish-black crest, tipped 

 behind with white, followed by a minute similar crest on 

 the back of each following segment except the last ; anal 

 segment furnished with a long blackish tuft tipped with 

 pale grey-brown. Fore wings rather elongated; costa regu- 

 larly arched ; apex rounded ; hind margin oblique, very 

 little curved ; dorsal margin slightly tilled out ; dark green ; 

 basal line curved and angulated, black ; followed by a broad 

 green-black stripe which is outwardly edged by a similar 

 black line, and this, toward the dorsal margin, by a white 

 streak ; first line placed far from the base, curved and 

 repeatedly angulated, black shaded off outwardly, the space 

 immediately before it clouded with blackish-green lines 

 which run into white lines toward the dorsal margin ; second 

 line curved, and angulated at every nervure, black shaded 

 off' inwardly, on the outside edged by a double white line 

 near the costa and a pink double line or blotch near the 

 dorsal margin, there united, and edged, by rippled black 

 lines ; in the middle space of the wing is a black discal spot, 

 and on either side of it a rippled black line parallel with the 

 enclosing first and second lines, the broad areas before and 

 beyond it are often more or less tinted, over the green, with 

 purple gloss ; space beyond the second line clouded with 

 black to the subterminal line, which is white but faint, 

 broken up into dots ; outside it is a series of small black 

 streaks or nervnres ; cilia greenish-grey dashed with smoky- 

 black. Hind wings long, rounded behind but the anal angle 

 rather squared, smoke colour with darker uervures ; central 

 spot black : beyond the middle is a faint indication of one, 

 or sometimes two, slender transverse lines ; cilia pale brown 

 spotted and dashed with smoky-black. Female similar, but 

 the green colouring often deeper, or sometimes the purple 

 shades more contrasting. 



Underside of the fore wings dark smoky-brown to the 



