254 LEPIDOPTERA. 



proceeds almost parallel with the hind margin to the anal 

 angle, forming there, with the fifth, a large creamy blotch 

 which throws off creamy streaks inward and outward, so as 

 to enclose two black spots and some marginal dots or small 

 spots. This large creamy blotch is often dashed or clouded 

 with deep yellow from the margin, and the sixth stripe is 

 tinged with the same at its costal extremity. The whole 

 dorsal margin is occupied by a straight creamy-white stripe 

 which also joins the blotch at the anal angle. Cilia on the 

 margin of the black portions blackish, but with one or two 

 yellow dashes ; on the creamy margin deep yellow. 



Hind wings long and very ample, rounded behind ; rich 

 crimson-scarlet with black spots ; one in the middle of the 

 wing large, roundish or ovate ; another forming a large 

 irregular blotch in the apical space, and having a smaller 

 one outside it ; a large ovate spot near the middle of the 

 hind margin, and a very small one near the anal angle. 



Underside extremely brilliant ; costal region and stripes of 

 the fore wings orange-yellow, except that several white spots 

 lie toward the apex ; central area broadly banded and blotched 

 with black ; basal area dull scarlet ; hind margin broadly 

 deep yellow ; hind wings pale scarlet, or partially orange red, 

 the large central and apical black blotches of the upper side 

 hardly visible, but that in the middle of the hind margin deep 

 black ; body and legs whitish, tinged with orange ; tarsi 

 barred with black. 



There is one constant, and frequently recurrent, variety 

 in which the scarlet of the hind wings and of the abdomen is 

 replaced by yellow, usually a deep rich yellow. This is known 

 as variety hdesccns, but is connected with the typical form by 

 specimens having hind wings of every intermediate shade of 

 orange, orange-red, and dull red. A complete series of such 

 is in the cabinet of Mr. A. Hobinson. There is also occasionally 

 variation in the number of black dots or small spots along the 

 margin of the large creamy blotch at the anal angle of the 

 fore wings, and in rare instances these are all absent. 



