242 LEPIDOPTERA. 



blotches or lines. At the apex are two short black streaks, 

 closing the last crimson row. Cilia white, invaded by the 

 final row of black dots. Hind wings long and very broad, 

 with rounded apex, and the hind margin very little curved, 

 except towards the anal angle ; pure clear white, with a 

 distinct black central lunule near the costal margin, and an 

 irregular black band round the apex and hind margin, very 

 broad round the apex, then much attenuated, again spread- 

 ing into a broad blotch, and thence narrowing to the anal 

 angle ; cilia white. Female rather larger and stouter ; other- 

 wise similar. Underside handsome and strikingly coloured, 

 the rows of black and red dots being replaced by stripes or 

 blotches or broad bands of black and more vivid crimson ; 

 the marginal markings of the hind wings are also blacker, 

 more sharply indicated, divided into blotches and dots, and 

 also extended along the costal margin, the ground colour 

 remaining pure white ; abdomen white, with two rows of 

 black spots ; legs blackish, thickly dusted with white scales. 



Rather variable, especially in the crimson spotting, which 

 is often pale and sometimes partially obliterated ; while the 

 black spots vary much in size and distinctness. As a rule 

 specimens taken in this country have all the dots rather 

 small, more strikingly marked specimens being obtained in 

 more southern countries. One of these forms from Asia 

 Minor has the crimson spots very brilliant and partially 

 confluent, while the black are almost obliterated. In 

 Eastern Asia a form, otherwise normal, has the joints of the 

 antennge swollen into tiny processes from which the bristles 

 spring. 



September and October, but has been observed in July 

 and August, and very rarely in May and June. 



Larva \\ inch long, rather slender, with the usual 

 spots slightly raised and furnished with thin tufts of 

 barbed hairs, blackish on the back, whitish at the sides. 

 Head red-brown, body grey — dark or pale, spots large and 



