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dots of the ordinary A. aglaia. The base of the fore wings has 

 a deeper colour than the other brown parts of the wings. In the 

 discoidal cell the spots number three ; the first (counting from 

 the base) is of ordinary form ; the typical second and third 

 have merged together, forming a large, black, irregular spot ; 

 between the first and second the yellowish ground colour forms a 

 capital L ; the last (third in the variety) is larger than it ought 

 to be, and is somewhat like the capital letter B. The nervules 

 in the marginal area are black, and very broad as compared with 

 the basal part, where they are of just the same aspect as in the 

 typical specimens. 



Hind wings — Marginal area : — The marginal line and the 

 lunules are typical; but the marginal row of dots fails altogether, 

 or is merged with the broad black belt ; compared with the 

 figure of A. aglaia var. as described by Mr. Fowler,* it will be 

 seen that the pale spots of my variety are exactly in the places 

 of the. "seven broad black bars" of the secondaries of his 

 variet3\ The whole of the submarginal area one broad black band ; 

 the nervules that traverse it are much paler than the general 

 colour, and therefore easily seen ; the same with the marginal 

 area, where they are encased in broad black lines. The black 

 spot near the base of the wing has not the typical prolongation, 

 and is on the whole much smaller ; being surrounded by black it 

 is not very distinct. The base is almost entirely black. 



The under surface difters as much as the upper from that 

 of the typical A. aglaia. Fore wings: — Marginal area without 

 black spots, wdth only four pale yellow round dots and two long 

 silvery bars at the tip of the wing, corresponding to the two 

 long pale spots (fifth and sixth) of the marginal area of the 

 upper surface. The submarginal area has two rows of black 

 spots ; the row nearest to the base is formed by six large and 

 broad spots, about twice as large as the typical ones; the outside 

 row by four spots, of elongated form, except the last, which is 

 round. The discoidal cell has only three spots, — first small, 

 second and third merged together, fourth like capital B, of exactly 

 the same form as on the upper surface. Nervules typical. 



The hind wings have in all only eleven silvery spots, instead of 

 the typical twenty-one. The marginal area has distinct marginal 

 lunules and seven spots, which have a little silver in them, and 

 are horse-shoed on the marginal side with black. The last spot 

 is elongated, silvery, and surrounded by a black border. The 

 submarginal area is utterly devoid of silver spots ; in place 

 of them are spots of a reddish brown hue, seven in number; 

 they are represented on the figure as darker than the ground 

 colour, which is typical. The basal area has only four large 

 silver spots, just like the var. charlotta. Nervules distinctly seen, 



* Ante, p. 131, and fig. on p. 182. 



