FAMILY PAPiLIOMD.E. 



SrB-F.UrTLY PTEP.TX.E. Bates. 

 UE^'US CALLIDKYAS. BuUduval. 



FLATJ'J XXIX. 



[Monograph Continued.] 



21. CaUidri/as Vlryo, jujs. 1 — Jf. 



S , ? Callidryas Virgo, Butler, Tr. Eut. Soc. Loud., p. 9, n. 1 (1870). 



Mnh. Wings above sulithiir-yellow ; frontwings with central area to meal}' border pale golden- 

 yellow ; nervures black-tipped ; bind wings with outer area except mealy patch pale golden-yellow ; 

 netrures black-tijjped : below golden-yellow irrorated here and there with reddish-brown, nervures 

 black-tij)ped ; frontwings with silver-centred sub-geminate disco-cellular red-brown spot and grejnsh- 

 brown zigzag series of sagittate spots ; internal area pale yellow ; hindwings with two disco-cellular 

 silver spots enclosed in a red-brown ])atch ; a short red-brown baud at base and a circular series of 

 sagittate markings between nervures, all greyish-brown. 



Fcmulf. "Wings above rosj'-white, a large disco-cellular spot, the apex and points terminating the 

 nervures, all black-brown : below greenish or bluish-white irrorated with red-brown, the margins 

 slightly ochre-tinted ; frontwings vi\i\\ rosy silver-centred disco-cellular spot, and a zigzag discal series, 

 of eight silver spots bounded externally by a rosy line ; the marginal spots surrounded by rosy scales 

 and bounded internally by diffused silver scales ; a red spot at base ; hindwings with two rosy silver- 

 centred disco-cellular spots, surrounded bj' a circular discal series of rosy-bound silver sagittate- 

 markings ; a red spot at base. 



Ix)calities — <J, ?, Mexico, Coll. Saunders. 6, Oaxaca, Coll. B.M. 9, Mountains of Oaxaca, K. 

 Side ; San Geronimo, Vera I'az. $, Apolobamba, Oil. Salvin. 6, Volcano of Chirinui, Panama 

 (lirnliir^), Coll. IJ.M. 



l»ill'frs from C. Cqirin in the more arched outer margin of frontwings, more pronounced tails to 

 liindwings, white colour of the female and several otlicr minor cliaracters ; it is generally rather larger 

 than C. Cipn'it, although not so in my ligures, which are tjiken from small Mexican specimens. 



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