( 4i)2 ) 



brown and green, usually with some purple-fuscous spots ; crests green. Under- 

 side of body and legs paler, more ochreous, foreleg and (more slightly) middle-leg 

 marked with red-brown. 



Wings green, iu <S moderately, in ? very strongly blotched with purple-fnscons. 



Fori'wing with costal edge mostly purple-fuscons, interrnpted with pale green 



or wliitish at origin of all three lines and from the subterminal almost to apex ; 

 lines i)ale green or whitish, often interrnpted in jiarts liy the dark blotching, or 

 indistinct iu parts through being scarcely differentiated from the ground-colour ; 

 antemedian from about one-fourth costa, angled on U, strongly (rather longer than 

 in turncri, pnisina, et('.) oblique distad lialf-way t,u cell-spot, then falling nearly 

 perpendicularly on posterior margin, rather evenly dentate ; postmedian nearly 

 as in prasiiHi, but rather more strongly dentate still, and more nearly j)erpendicular 

 in its posterior course, the enclosed central area rather broader, especially posteriorly; 

 subterminal forming a white or whitish V close to costa, scarcely traceable beyond; 

 the purple-fuscons clouding consists of: a basal patch, projecting posteriorly to cell ; 

 an interrnpted narrow band (at least between M and SM^) proximally to first line ; 

 a line, bar or band distally to first line, occasionally complete, usually interrupted iu 

 anterior part of cell ; a line ])roximally to postmedian, occasionally interrupted near 

 costa, always filled up with a proximal blotch between R' and M', and usually (in 

 varying intensity) one between M- and posterior margin ; a cell-mark (in ? large ; 

 a small costal patch anteriorly to the subterminal ; a thick curved line or band from 

 posterior margin close to tornus, touching the postmedian at M' — R-, joining an 

 irregular patch which runs between the radiuls (in ? sometimes continued to SC'') ; 

 in 5 almost the entire area between this curved band and the termen is filled up 

 with the purple-fuscons colour, leaving only a small green terminal spot between 



R^ and M' ; a thick terminal line and more or less strong blotches in fringe. 



IJiiidwiiig with white or pale dentate postmedian line, purple-fuscons-margined 

 proximally; purple-fuscons shading costally ; purple-fuscons Vdotchcs jjroximally 

 to the vague subterminal, i)laced at costa, between radials, and between W and 

 abdominal margin ; in ? almost the entire basal area as far as postmedian line 

 purple-fuscous and the subterminal blotches much extended, connected but leaving 

 at least a green spot between R^ and M', as on forewing ; cell-spot present, rather 

 obscured in the ? by the dark surroundings. 



Underside of both wings pale ochreous to beyond one-half, bounded by a thick 

 red line, which is slightly or moderately outbeut in middle on the forewing and 

 always entangled on or just behind M' on the hindwing ; followed narrowly and 

 interruptedly on forewing, broadly on hindwing, by a white band ; distal area mostly 

 reddish, duller terminally, enclosing a pale spot at apex and a white one between R' 

 and M' ; cell-spots smaller than above, that of forewing followed as far as the red 

 line by an ill-defined whitish patch. 



Mount Goliath, January— February 1911 (A. S. Meek) 2 c?(?,3 ? ? in coll. 

 Rothschild, the type (tj) February. 



Very near to — jierhaps a race of — alhift/sfiria ^V'alk. ( IJM Lop. Brit. Mas. xxxv. 

 p. 1589), which I cannot compare side by side. As in that species there is a reddisli 

 spot at tornus of forewing ; usually also (especially in the S) there is some whitish 

 shading beyond the discal spot of the forewing above as well as beneath. The 

 variable purple-fiiscous blotching of the central area of the forewing often absorbs 

 it almost entirely from posterior margin to ]\I', and in one <S joins the proximal dark 

 liaud lieliind cell, here obliterating the antemedian line. 



