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blotch on segments four to eleven, and all the body 

 except these blotches is densely covered with soft grey 

 hairs. The black dorsal line is continued, though much 

 narrower, through the coloured blotches. The head and 

 legs are black and the claspers reddish. 



The portly pupa (Fig. 114) has its ears rather short, 

 the thoracic bump pronounced, and the back of the 

 abdomen much arched and bearing a mid-dorsal line 

 of tiny points. On each side of this is a subdorsal line 

 of much longer spines, the pair on the highest part of 

 the abdomen being longest. Each wing-case bears three 

 projections, two forming a lateral keel to the thorax and 

 the other being at the tip of the wing-case. The 

 colour is brown, freckled with darker brown. All the 

 points are black-tipped and each segment of the abdomen 

 bears laterally several black dots. The under-surface of 

 the anal hook is black. The specimen from which 

 this description was made measured lin. in length. 



The costal margin of the fore-wings of the imago 

 (Figs. 116 and 117) is nearly straight till it approaches 

 the tip, and the hind-margin of each of the wings bears 

 a couple of prominent angles. The colour of the upper 

 surface is deep chocolate, edged from the tip of the fore- 

 wings to the anal angle of the hind-wings with creamy- 

 white speckled with black. Near this band the ground- 

 colour becomes almost black and contains a row of blue 

 spots. There are two cream-coloured spots on the costal 

 margin of the fore-wings near the tip. The under-surface 

 (Fig. 1 1 6) has the same cream-coloured markings, but 

 within the band the colouring is similar to that of the 

 whole of the under-surface of V. io. The pale margin 

 varies considerably in depth of colouring; some specimens 

 having it nearly white, and others of quite a yellow tint. 

 The former used to be looked upon as natives, and 



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