PAPAIPEMA. Gi 



mosing with 8 to form tlie areole; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 

 from angle of cell ; 6 obsolescent from just below middle of discocellulars ; 

 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



The larviB feed in the stems of plants, when young the ground-colour is dark 

 with the dorsal and subdorsal lines white, when full-grown they are transluceut 

 white without markings. 



A. Head, thorax and terminal area of fore wing purple- 



pink appassionata. 



B. Head, thorax and terminal area of fore wing not purple- 



pink. 

 a. Fore wing with the ground-colour yellow. 



ffi. Fore wing with the postmedial line single, dentate . ccrina. 

 b^. Fore wing with the postmedial line double and 

 not dentate. 

 a'^. Fore wing more or less tinged with rufous. 



a^. Fore wing with the postmedial line oblique from 

 below costa to veins 5 or 4, then inwardly 

 oblique. 

 «■*. Fore wing with the medial line angled out- 

 wards to lower angle of cell inqnwsita. 



b*. Fore wing with the medial line not angled 



outwards to lower angle of cell spcciosissima. 



b''. Fore wing with the postmedial line excurved 

 from below costa to vein 4, then oblique or 

 incurved, 

 a-t. Fore wing with the reiiiform a narrow white 



bar f;^c?ioscelis. 



b-i. Fore wing with yellowish or wl)ite lunule in 

 centre of reniform surrounded by spots. 

 «5. Fore wing with white spots before sub- 

 basal line. 

 ffC. Fore wing with the centre of reniform 



white nefhrasyntlida. 



U>. Fore wing with the centre of reniform 



pale yellow inarginidens. 



b''. Fore wing with yellow spots before sub- 

 basal line. 

 a^. Fore wing with the stigmata white, 

 ai. Fore wing with the reniform large 

 and dilated below, 

 a*. Fore wing strongly sufifused with 



purple-red , bnpiiiics. 



b^. Fore wing much yellower and less 



suffused with red ... furcafa. 



b'. Fore wing with the reniform narrower 

 and hardly dilated below. 

 flS. Fore wing with the spot at middle 

 of outer edge of reniform white. 

 a^. Fore wing nearly uniform rufous circumlucens. 

 W. Fore wing suffused with brown, 

 the inner area to postmedial line 

 and the apex refldish yellow ... rutila. 

 c9. Fore wing much paler, yellow 



slightly tinged with rufous ochroptena. 



b^. Fore wing witli the spot at middle 



of outer edge of reniform yellow... merrkcata. 

 b^. Fore wing with the stigmata pale yellow. 

 ai. Fore wing strongly suffused with 



rufous insulidens. 



b~. Fore wing slightly tinged with rufous, angelica. 



