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This is a very handsome South Indian species, measuring 

 nearly four inches across the wings. It has fulvous fore-wings, 

 bordered behind with yellowish-tawny, which colour extends 

 over the greater part of the hind-wings. The hind-margins 

 are black, with the fringes white, and a festooned white line 

 within. The apical portion of the fore-wings is black, and 

 both wings are crossed by a row of large oval black spots, 

 mostly with white borders ; besides which there is an oblique 

 white band, cut by the nervures, running from the costa 

 towards the middle of the border of the fore-wings. The 

 fulvous portion of the latter is marked with two rows of 

 spots, diverging hindwards, and continued more regularly on 

 the hind-wings ; nearer the base are a few more black spots. 

 On the under surface the black portion of the wing is reduced, 

 the white markings are rather more extended, and the rows of 

 black spots are more regular. 



Until recently this species was confounded with C. cyane 

 (Drury), a commoner and more uniformly tawny Indian species. 



GENUS CYNTHIA. 

 Cynthia^ Fabr., Illiger, Mag. Insekt., vi., p. 281 (1807) ; Doubl., 



Gen. Diurn. Lep., p. 212 (1849); Moore, Lepid. Ceylon, 



i., p. 52 (1880); Distant, Rhop. Malay., p. 183 (1883); 



De NiceY, Butterflies Ind., ii., p. 40 (1886); Schatz, 



Exot. Schmett., ii., p. 116 (1887). 



The type is 



CYNTHIA ARSINOE. 



Papilio arsinoe^ Cramer, Pap. Exot, ii., pi. 160, f. B. C. (1777). 



It is said by Cramer to be found in the islands of Amboina 

 and Sumatra. 



This genus was formerly included with Vanessa^ on account 

 of the shape of the wings, which have the hind-margins 

 scalloped, those of the fore-wings slightly concave, and those 



