370 LEPIDOPTERA. 



dchreons. Fore wings broad behind and slightly retuse ; 

 costa gently arched ; apex angulated ; hind margin beneath 

 it faintly concave, almost perpendicular to the middle, which 

 is very full, thence rounded off; dorsal margin straight; 

 colour soft clear yellow or orange-yellow; close to the base 

 is a broad, much-indented, purple transverse band, filling' 

 the usual space between the basal and first lines, which are' 

 only indicated as its margins ; beyond the middle is another 

 purple band, very broad, oblique, but occupying the outer 

 area of the wing to the hind margin, its inner edge, which is 

 darker in colour, representing the usual second line; in it is 

 the siibterminal line, composed of an angulated and irregular^ 

 series of orange or yellow clouds, and spreading out towards 

 the costa into a triangular yellow blotch which nearly reaches 

 the apex of the wing; orbicular stigma a mere rounded un- 

 margined purple spot ; reniform stigma indicated in its upper 

 portion by a partial rust-red margin, its lower half occupied' 

 by a purple spot ; cilia purple, faintly dusted with yellow. 

 Hind wings rather small, yellowish-white, the nervures 

 beyond the middle, and the hind marginal region, tinged 

 with ptirplish-red, but in this clouding is a subraarginal 

 series of pale yellow cloudy spots ; cilia pale purple with 

 a yellow basal line. Female quite similar, except that the^ 

 abdomen is stouter and has a small anal tuft, and that the 

 antennge are threadlike. 



Underside of the fore wings pale yellow broadly clouded 

 towards the hind margin with purple, in which is a repetition 

 of the yellow indented subterminal line running brightly 

 into the apex of the wing ; before this is a rather squared 

 purple costal blotch, and preceding it an oblique purple 

 streak. Hind wings yellow dusted with purple, especially 

 towards the hind margin and apex; cilia purplish-yellow. 

 Body yellow- brown ; leg-tufts pale yellow ; tibiae orange- 

 yellow. 



Rather variable in the ground colour, from pale yellow to 

 ochreous, and in the degree of dusting or clouding of rust-' 



