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wing : greenish yellow, the veins black ; a dense irroration of black 

 scales across the middle of the wing, its interior margin sharply 

 defined and extended from costa through the cell to vein 1 ; the 

 lower discal and tornal areas less densely covered with the 

 irrorated black scaling : a bright, greenish-yellow, irregular spot in 

 middle of interspace 6. Antennaa dark brown, head and thorax 

 anteriorly with greenish-yellow pile ; thorax medially and pos- 

 teriorly with long bluish-grey hairs ; abdomen black ; beneath : 

 palpi and thorax yellow, abdomen white. $ . Upperside : dark 

 brownish black. Fore wing : base of cell and upper basal half of 

 interspace 1 white densely irrorated with black scales ; the apical 

 half of cell, base of interspace 3, basal two-thirds of interspace 2, 

 a subterminal large round spot in interspace 1 and a pretornal 

 short stripe on the dorsum, white. Hind wing: a more or less 

 triangular, central area white, its lower margin abruptly transverse, 

 its base and posterior half irrorated with black scales. Underside : 

 much as in the c? , but on the fore wing the dusky purplish-black 

 patch below the preapical yellow spot larger and more prominent. 

 On the hind wing the dark irregular discal area also more prominent. 

 Antenna3, head, thorax and abdomen as in the d 1 . 



Dry-season brood. d . Upperside : similar to that of the tf of 

 the wet-season brood, but the black area on the fore wing much 

 restricted so that it occupies little more than the apical third 

 instead of the apical half of the wing. On the hind wing the 

 anterior terminal black edging much narrower. Underside, fore 

 wing : white ; costal margin and apex broadly dull ochraceous with 

 a yellow tint, this colour on the apex margined on its inner side 

 by an irregular dusky, blackish, subtriangular patch. Hind wing : 

 dull ochraceous with a yellow tint as on the costa and apex of 

 fore wing ; an irregular transverse dusky discal band, that does not 

 reach the costa or the dorsum, somewhat sparsely irrorated with 

 black scales. $ . Similar to the d but darker, the black markings 

 on both fore and hind wings on the upperside similar but slightly 

 broader ; on the underside all the markings paler and duller than 

 in the c? . 



Exp. c? 52-62 mm. (2-05-2-44"). 



Hab. Southern India ; Ceylon. 



This is more or less a variable insect. Ceylon specimens 

 differ in the relative width of the black markings and in the 

 general paleness and dull tint of the greenish yellow on the under- 

 side ; these Moore has separated off as cinc/ala. 



Larva and pupa are said to be " scarcely distinguishable from 

 those of the last species [i. e. pliryne] and [the former?] feeds on 

 the same plants." (Davidson, Bell fy Aitken.) 



