60 Messrs. J. J. J oicey and A. Noakes on new 



abdominal fold to be narrower. The black discal margin is 

 as narrow as in litan, the markings on its proximal edge, the 

 spots in 4, 5, and 6, and the veins, are golden-green ; there 

 is some black i)owdering on the spots. 



Underside. — As in supremiis, but more golden. Fore wing : 

 the spots in 2 and 3 are joined^ forming a black bar ; the 

 spots in 3 and 4 are of about equal size. There is some 

 gold scaling on the black inner margin below I a. Hind 

 wino-: this exhibits more relationship to roth schildi in the 

 presence of a black patch, where the abdominal fold appears 

 to show through in 1 c, about midway between base and 

 distal margin ; also in the shape of the prajcostal cell, which 

 is shorter and broader than in sitpremus, and in the shorter 

 prsecostal spur. Tlie affiiiity with rothscliildi is particularly 

 observed in the abdomen, which bears large black lateral 

 ])atches on each segment, extending ventrally on the 

 joints. 



? . Ufperside. — Fore wing : ground-colour black. A 

 grey patch in cell near its end, four long grey-white patches 

 between cell and apex in cellules 5-S, their proximal ends 

 pointed ; the distal ends of those in 7 and 8 are nebulous, of 

 those in 5 and 6 well defined. The patch in 5 is almost cut 

 in two by a square-shaped spot of the ground-colour. A 

 small spot below in 4, two long spots in 3 close together, an 

 oblong patch in 2, a small rounded spot below vein 2, a sub- 

 marginal row of live spots, two in 16 and the others in 2-4. 

 All the spots grey-white powdered with black scales. 



Hind wing : basal half of wing to just beyond cell black ; 

 distal half golden, heavily scaled with black, paler near bases 

 of cellules 3 and 4. About midway between cell and distal 

 margin a series of seven rounded spots; the first in 1 c is 

 anteriorly joined to the black ground-colour. A narrow 

 black distal margin. 



Underside. — Fore wing as above. Hind wing as above, 

 but the yellow distal half is not scaled with black. Abdomen 

 yellow dusted with black, especially on the first three seg- 

 ments. Basal half of each segment laterally clothed with 

 black liair, which becomes long and more extensive on the 

 ventral surface. Tiiis peculiar character shows relationship 

 with rothschildi. 



Length of fore wing, ^ 86 mm., ? I.IO mm. 



This species is on tlie whole smaller than supremus. 



In the (J the intensity of the golden colour is variable, 

 some being more green than others. In the ? the markings 

 are variable, and in some specimens the spots are much 

 reduced; the spot iu cellule 5 of the subapical patch is less 



