346 



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Hah. Dutch X. Guinea, Ivapaur (Doherty), 1 c? type, Andai 

 (Doherti/), 1 J . E.vj). 46 millim. 



4785. Apsarasa radians. 



Ajpafela radians. Westw. Cab. Or. Ent. p. 58. pi. 28. f. 4 (1848) • Hmpsn. 

 Moths lud. ii. p. 290. V / . i- 



(S • Head .and thorax blue-black ; palpi with white spot on ]st 

 joint in front ; irons with yellowish-white patch above; vertex of 

 head, tegulje at middle and tips, pro- raeso- and metathorax with 

 yellowish-white bands ; coxa? with white patches, the tibire and 

 fore and mid tarsi with white bands ; abdomen blue-black with 

 small dorsal white spots on basal segments, the anal tuft white, the 

 ventral surface white with sublateral series of blue-black spots. 

 Fore wing blue-black, the costal, terminal, and inner areas with 

 yellowish-white patches leaving radiating blue-black bars and 

 streaks the costal area with three small yellowish-white spots 

 towards base, an antemedial spot followed by a bar, an oblique 

 medial patch, a spot above end of cell followed by a bar extending 

 to vein 6, then a triangular patch followed by an oblique bar and 

 a triangular patch at apex ; the terminal area with two oblique 

 short fasciae towards apex with curved striga before it, a minute 



Fig. 158. — Apsarasa radians, ^. 



streak at vein 5 and four wedge-shaped patches between veiu 4 

 and tornus ; the inner area with two antemedial wedge-shaped 

 marks, a medial band from submedian fold to inner margin 

 followed by a wedge-shaped patch with point above it, then a 

 narrow band and a triangular patch before tornus ; two yellowish- 

 white points in middle of cell and a })oint at upper angle ; the 

 postmedial area with some waved blue-white striae between veins 7 

 and 2. Hind wing black-brown ; subapical elongate white marks 

 above and below vein 7 ; the terminal area white from just beyond 

 cell between veins 6 and 1 extending to tornus as a narrow mark, 

 its inner edge indented by dark streaks on the veins ; the underside 

 with antemedial white spot on costa, medial band from costa to 

 discal fold expanding into a spot on discocellulars and postmedial 

 bar. 



2 . Abdomen with the anal tuft and ventral surface blue-black, 

 the latter with lateral and ventral series of white spots. 



Hah. SiKHiM (Aihinson, Lidderdale, Mbller), 5 c? j 2 $> ; Ass.\m. 

 Exp. 50-56 millim. 



