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does not rise straight from the dorsal margin, but is there 

 much curved in. On the underside the hind wings are often 

 orange or yellow in the portions usually chocolate coloured, or 

 clouded with olive. " 



Variable in the tone of colour in both generations : in the 

 earlier, from chocolate or chocolate-red in the darker portions 

 to chocolate-black on one hand, and to many shades of purple- 

 red and rich chestnut, often mixed or clouded with olive-brown, 

 on the other ; the paler ground colour takes also various 

 shades, from white to rosy-grey and light rosy-brown. In the 

 second generation the darker portions often lose the chocolate 

 colouring, which is then replaced by puq^le-red or orange- 

 red or even pale olive-brown with reddish clouding, but the 

 ground colour does not usually become paler in the same 

 degree. The variation in shape of the second line, already 

 remarked upon, is not perfectly reliable, the more curved and 

 undulating form being seen occasionally in the first brood.» -^ 

 . The only vai'iety known to me, which is not some modifica- 

 tion of the usual form of the species, is one which exists in' 

 several large collections; a very fine one from Mr. Bond''» 

 cabinet has no trace of the pale band, but the fore wings are; 

 chocolate-black from base to hind margin, with the second 

 line only yellow ; the hind wings smoky-black, also with a' 

 pale-yellow transverse line, but the lunules all normal. This 

 is an extraoi'dinary and veiy striking aberration. ' 



In all its variations, and both on upper and underside, thi^ 

 is an insect of quite remarkable beauty. tfiiooodo '-dj 



On the wing in April and May, and in a second generation 

 in July and August. In confinement, rare and quite 

 casual examples of a third brood have been reared in 

 October. . lij.i-;<^»j c.i .- ' --;;.xl, 



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Lakva twig-like, rugose, stout ; the third pair of prolegs 

 placed upon a fleshy pad; third segment laterally but not 

 conspicuously humped ; fifth and sixth each provided with a 

 bifid hump ; eighth and ninth much swollen, especially afc 



