146 i^EPIDOPTERA. 



Fore wings with a central red stripe followed by white spots. 

 Hind wings with red margin. 



Fore wings with a blunt projection below the apex, and the 

 margin beneath it rather excavated. Hind wings rounded, 

 hind margins of fore and hind wings sharply scalloped. Deep 

 rich black. Fore wings with a broad bright red stripe, 

 obliquely, from the costa, before the middle, to the anal angle. 

 Beyond it is a large white costal spot, followed by a row of 

 smaller white spots, usually five in number, the fourth much 

 larger than the rest. Hind margin preceded by narrow blue 

 dashes, and having the cilia white interrupted with black. 

 Hind wings having, along the hind margin, a broad red 

 band, containing a row of black dots. Anal angle bluish'; 

 cilia white, with blackish dashes. Sexes similar. 



Under side of fore wings with the red stripe paler and 

 preceded by a whip-like red line ; a blue spot at the base, 

 and blue clouding between the stripe and the white costal 

 spot. Apex marbled with yellowish-brown, in which the row 

 of white spots is visible, as on the upper side. Hind wings 

 exquisitely marbled with various soft rich browns, and having 

 a pale spot on the costa, a black streak in the middle, and 

 near the hind margin a row of curved black lines enclosing 

 bluish crescents. 



Hardly variable, except that the red stripe of the fore 

 wings is often nearly divided, in the middle, by a curved 

 black streak, and not unfrequently has a white spot in it 

 below the middle, in a line with the perraanent row of white 

 spots. This has been, erroneously, supposed to be a sexual 

 character. A few singular aben'ations, however, exist. One 

 was recorded at Worcester, in 1869, with the marginal band 

 of the hind wings bright yellow, and the hairs of the body 

 brown and white. Mr. George Harker, of Liverpool, reared 

 a specimen in which the usually red markings are semi- 

 transparent white, shghtly edged with pink. Mr. S. Stevens 

 has one with the stripe of the fore wings abbreviated and 

 quite straight, and of a whitish colour shading into red, the 

 outer white spots elongated and suffused, the inner suppressed ; 



