THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



No. 113.] FEBRUARY, MDCCCLXXIII. [Price 6d. 



CHEL0NL4. VILLICA (VAEIETY). 



Variety of Chelonia villica. — The head, collar and disk of 

 the mesothorax are black, the ordinary cream-coloured spot 

 at the base of the fore wings being present, and of the usual 

 size and shape. The abdomen is yellow at the base, gradually 

 shading to pink, which colour occupies more than half its 

 length ; it has a medio-dorsal series of black spots, so small 

 as to be scarcely perceptible, and on each side is a double 

 series of black spots, considerably larger than the dorsal 

 ones, but not visible from above. The fore wings are rich 

 cream-coloured, with the under-mentioned black markings; 

 the costal, hind, and inner margins, are almost continu- 

 ously black ; this is slightly interrupted in two places on 

 the inner margin ; on the costal margin this black border is 

 united with five black spots ; the first and second of these 

 are somewhat triangular ; the third is transverse, descending 

 to the middle of the wing, and there being almost united to a 

 longitudinal black spot, which extends to, but is not united 

 will), the first triangular black spot; the fourth subcostal 

 spot is small, and the fifth large, occupying the apical angle 

 of the wing ; other black markings are shown in the figure. 

 The hind wings are rich fulvous, with a few very small black 



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