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t'l'iitnlr. Wings aliov.- almost as in ('. I'/iri/H'is 5, luu with a.l.liti.inal wljito sputs .mi niar;,'inal 

 border. 



Wings below yellowisli and (with the exception of tlie internal area of the frontwings whicli is 

 white), striated with pidc brown ; frontwings with a small disco cellular ring-s]xit, and beyond it an 

 angulated series of pale brown striie ; the extreme outer margin orange ; hindwings with three more 

 .or less distinct central silver ring-spots, and beyond them an irregularly arched series of rcdilish or 

 orange spots ; nervures minutely black-tipped. 



Localities — J. Darjeeling, Coll. Wallace; Wuzeerabad (IlearseyJ B.M. ; Central India, Coll. 

 W. W. .Saumlors : (Vvlon (Tiii>i>lii,w ), q, (Cuminij) V,.y[.. \ S, Fovmosn, Coll. Wallace; Java, Coll. 



I'nic.-. 



Var. /'. y //'/—/, Wuzeerabad ( l[<-iirsi'ij) : ( 'i-yloii (Ciirnhm), 9, (Temiilelim), H.M. ; ,j, India 

 Coll. W. W. Saimdci-s. 



Race. P. Niiihl,; i. 5, Hong-Kong (Lnrlnn) B.M. 



The caterpilLir and chrysalis of ('. Pijrmi'hf are tignred in .Mr. Monn-'s Catalogue of the 

 t.epidoptera of the Rast India Company, jd. 1, figs. f<, Sa. 



Herr (Jeorge Semjjer describes the caterpillar, wliich frequents C'«.»-/'( _nstuhi and C ucci,/, iifulif 

 as yellowish green with a black and yellow lateral stripe, the i)upa rests seven days, this species has 

 been reared by Capt. Lang who funud it on Ca-fgin torn ; the perfect insect, according to Mr. Swinhoe, 

 is abundant amongst rank and ovei-grown herbage. 



The variety I'. lien of Fabricius differs from the typical form on the uppcrside, in its extremely 

 narrow marginal border, below in its uniform colouring and more distinct disco-cellular .spots : the race 

 /'. Xei>/ite (wliich I unfortunately confounded with 7'. (liiiniut, when determining the Fabrician .species 

 of Cullidnjiiii for my Catalogue) differs only in its mucli greater size, in whicli respect it agrees with 

 C. PJin/iiis, the pattern of both surfaces being however precLsely as in ('. Pi/r'Hiflii: 



