250 LEPIDOPTERA. 



with a longitudinal orange stripe on each side of the centre ; 

 abdomen pale scarlet with a blue-black band at the base, a 

 broad black dorsal stripe, and the anal segment, with its tuft, 

 black. Fore wings long, rather narrow at the base, moder- 

 ately broad beyond, with the costal margin gently curved, 

 apex rounded, hind margin rounded and very oblique, and 

 dorsal margin almost straight ; rich glossy metallic green- 

 black with pale orange and creamy-white spots ; three of 

 these are placed in a triangle before the middle of the wing, 

 and are edged with deep black, the upper two being pale 

 orange, or yellow dashed with orange, the lower creamy- 

 white ; beyond these, three large creamy-white spots form a 

 sort of transverse band from the costa to the anal angle ; 

 towards the apex are three, four, or five more, all small and 

 creamy-white ; and near the base of the dorsal margin is 

 a single spot elongated and of a deep yellow ; cilia extremely 

 short, green-black. Hind wings long and rather broad ; 

 almost bluntly angulated at the apex, and with the hind 

 margin, below it, straight, then rounded off ; rich crimson, 

 crimson-scarlet, or pale scarlet, with a large elongated blue- 

 black spot in the middle of the costal margin, from which a 

 blue-black stripe passes round the apex, joins a large ir- 

 regular blue-black blotch lying across the apex, and touches 

 another irregular blue-black blotch on the hind margin ; 

 another irregular and often divided deep black elongated 

 blotch arising on the anal angle nearly meets it, so that 

 except for a small central space the hind margin is bordered 

 with black and banded with black blotches ; cilia scarlet or 

 black, similar to the adjacent margin. Female rather 

 stouter, otherwise similar. Underside of the wings an exact 

 copy of the upper except that the three middle spots of the 

 fore wings are all yellow ; thorax blue-black with a red spot 

 under each shoulder, abdomen and legs deep black. 



Some local variation takes place in the colour of the spots 

 on the fore wings, these being in l^embrokeshire wholly 

 creamy white, in ^lonmouthshire those near the middle of 



