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neath the inner margin, and rising upwards partially 

 envelope the upper portion of the abdomen. The 

 outline of the nervures are easily traceable by narrow, 

 but distinct, lines of black. Under surface, cor- 

 responds to the upper, but the green is of a more 

 golden hue ; the black spots, here seven in number, 

 become larger and less oval, and the nervures are 

 broadly picked out with black. 



Heai and thorax deep black, the latter bearing above 

 a central line of satiny-green, and below crimson spots 

 on either side. Abdomen bright golden-yellow. 



Female length of wings, 93 lines largest ; 87 lines smallest of 



the eight specimens. 



Sttperior ivings, upper surface rich black-brown, re- 

 lieved with various irregular patches and spots of 

 impure white, similar to, but in lesser degree than 

 any of its congeners. Three of these, more or less 

 developed, are placed in the discoidal cell ; one, rarely 

 two, immediately under ; and a series beyond these, 

 running obliquely across the wing, exhibits in some 

 specimens (see plate 10, vol. 1) largish and'distinct 

 markings ; in others, small and faint ; in the first 

 case they become parted into two at the discoidal 

 nervules, in the other, indistinct, almost obsolete. A 

 few small spots, absent in some, along the outer 

 margin, complete the whole relief of this sombre 

 insect. Under surface similarly marked to the upper. 

 Inferior wings, upper surface possesses four wedge- 

 shaped markings of dusky white placed one in each 

 space, between the second sub-costal and third median 

 nervules, although in some specimens, that one 

 between the second sub-costal and first median 

 nervules, is obsolete, exhibiting only a small trian- 

 gular spot at its lower end, the black ground colour 

 of the wing entirely covering the remaining space. 

 These markings become dull ochraceous towards their 

 outer margins, and bear in their centres large, some- 

 what heart-shaped spots of dark brown, which unite 

 in the disc with the median nervules. 



