172 LLOYD'S NATURAL HISTORY. 



This curious Butterfly measures nearly four inches in 

 expanse. The fore-wings have a rounded projection just 

 below the apex, below which the hind-margin is concave and 

 oblique, and at half the distance below the first prominence 

 and the hinder angle, is a much stronger obtuse projection, 

 below which the hind-margin is much more oblique to the 

 hinder angle. The hind-wings are short, and much more 

 strongly dentated than the fore wings, and have a rather long 

 obtuse tail in the middle of the hind-margin, and a slight 

 pointed projection at the anal angle. The inner-margin forms 

 a gutter to receive the abdomen, and is concave beyond to the 

 anal angle. The fore-wings are black, the costa reddish- 

 tawny nearly to the middle, and the lower part of the cell filled 

 up with reddish-tawny nearly to the extremity ; this forms the 

 upper part of a large patch, which is continued obliquely 

 towards the anal angle, near which its lower end is produced 

 to a point. The outer side of this patch is slightly marked 

 with yellow. Below the extremity of the reddish-tawny stripe 

 on the costa, a broad band, divided into long spots by the 

 nervures, irregular in outline on both sides, and with the last 

 spot but one the longest, runs slightly obliquely nearly to the 

 base of the tooth on the middle of the hind-margin. Above 

 the lower end of this band is a row of four sub-marginal yellow 

 spots running from the costa. The hind-wings are black, with 

 a reddish-tawny band running from the base, and occupying 

 most of the upper portion, but not extending much below the 

 cell; the inner-margin is also tawny, shading into yellowish 

 towards the body. There is also a sub-marginal row of four 

 white spots, mostly linear, running from the anal angle to the 

 root of the tail. On the under surface the prevailing colour is 

 yellowish-grey, varied with large irregular blotches of purplish- 

 buwn towards the base and hinder angles of the wings, and 

 with spaces thickly speckled with lighter brown beyond. 



