62 WHITE ADMIRAL. 



large white spots, rather outside the centre, the middle one 

 being very much smaller than the others. There are two 

 other small white spots near the corner, forming, as it were, 

 the right boundary of the white bar, the rest of it being filled 

 lip with the general colour of the wing; between the bar and 

 the base of the wings is another dull white mark. There are 

 also one or two small faint white oblong spots near the middle 

 of the outer margin of the fore wings, and they are fringed 

 with white. 



The hind wings have the same white bar continued through 

 their centre, narrowing to the end: they are also fringed with 

 white. There is an obscure red spot, within which are two 

 black dots near the inner lower corner. Inside the fringe is a 

 band of a darker colour than the ground of the wings, and 

 within this two others of interrupted spots of the same, and 

 twp others are obscurely visible within the white bar. 



Underneath, the general ground colour of the fore wings is 

 fulvous red, and all the white marks from above shew through, 

 and the dull ones are all clear. The centre of the wings about 

 the lower part of the bar has a tinge of ash-colour and faint 

 bronze. The fringe is alternate brown and white, the latter 

 being intersected by the former being waved. This is succeeded 

 by another curved line, leaving three small crescents of w^iite, 

 and a larger one again within the uppermost of the three; 

 these two last being the ones on the upper side that shew 

 through; after this the line fades nearly away in the fulvous 

 ground colour of the wings. There are four short dark waved 

 cross lines, two on each side of the white spot between the bar 

 and the base. 



The hind wings have two rows of blackish brown dots 

 between the bar and the margin, then one or two indistinctly 

 defined white marks, then a row of crescent-shaped white marks, 

 very faintly discernible towards the outer corner, and then the 

 Avhite margin, indented with the fulvous brown of the wings, 

 shewing through between it and the last-named row of white 

 crescents in the shape of a waved line. 



The caterpillar is green, Avith the head and legs reddish. 



