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Brenthis Chariclea (Schneid.) Herr.-Schaeff. 



Upper surface deep fulvous marked with black, with black ner- 

 vures. Fore icings with a zigzag, wavy, occasionally broken band 

 of moderate width, extending transversely across the wing, its inner 

 edge starting at the middle of the costal border and terminating at 

 the middle of the internal border; the general direction of the first 

 third being outward, the second third nearly at right angles inward, 

 the last third outward again nearly parallel to the first, but not 

 turned so much outward ; the band is formed: first of a straight 

 belt more or less irregular in outline, directed toward a point a 

 little more than two-thirds the distance down the outer border, 

 reaching the median nervure; second, either of two very deep lunu- 

 les, the lower heaviest limb being parallel to the first band, or of two 

 short, straight bands slightly connected above, having the same gen- 

 eral direction, the lunules or bands occupying the next two inter- 

 spaces ; and thirdly, of a broad shallow lunule or band occupying the 

 next interspace and directed at right angles to the lower branch of 

 the median nervure ; the inner border behind the submedian nervure 

 is up to this point dusky, as is the whole base of the wing nearly up 

 to the divarication of the median nervure; within the mesial band 

 there are three equidistant transverse bands crossing the cell, and 

 there is another short transverse blotch below the median nervure 

 starting from between the two innermost of those above ; the outer 

 edge of the wing is more or less narrowly bordered with black, next to 

 which is a row of triangular slightly arrow-head shaped black spots, 

 enclosing between it and the border a row of small, transverse, ful- 

 vous spots, which are usually larger and sometimes continuous at the 

 apex; midway between the band of triangular spots and the mesial 

 band is a slightly curving row of rather large, sometimes squarish 

 spots, the lower one of which falls a little outside the curve, and the 

 upper ones merge at the tip into the band of triangular spots; mid- 

 way between this row and the mesial band, there is on the costal bor- 

 der a triangular patch, extending, parallel to the mesial band, to the 

 lower branch of the subcostal nervure. Hind idngx: the mesial band 

 is directed first across the sub-costal nervules at right angles to them, 

 then sharply outward, reaching the upper branch of the median 

 nervure at two-thirds the distance from the base, whence it turns 

 toward the inner border with a sharply indented zigzag course, di- 

 rected a little outward toward the anal angle ; the whole base of the 

 wing within this band is dusky, sometimes quite black, with the excep- 



