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the terminal and outer bands in the female is often very indistinct, 

 and the latter is much lighter than is usual in other species. In both 

 sexes the lunular portion of the outer band is very narrow, not occupy- 

 ing much more than half the band. The inner part of the central 

 band is darker than the outer ; the proportion between tliese divisions 

 varies greatly. Fifth spot of basal band usually present ; light spot 

 generally rather small. 



Britomartis. — The two broods differ greatly in size, the second 

 being very much the smaller, though a large specimen of the second 

 may closely approach in size a small specimen of the same sex of the 

 first. Both broods are very variable in the breadth and distinctness 

 of the markings of the upper side. The outer margin of the fore 

 wing is generally conspicuously angular about a third of the way 

 down. 



Up. s. f. w. : The black border has a tendency to divide and show 

 a line or a series of spots or dashes of the ground colour. Lunules 

 generally distinct but narrow, the lowest, especially in males of the 

 first brood, being sometimes suppressed. The tendency of the first 

 brood seems to be to have the outer subterminal line broader, of the 

 second narrower than the inner ; both are generally distinct and 

 fairly broad, though sometimes the inner one especially is blurred. 

 This latter approaches most nearly in shape to that of aurelia, but it 

 is on the whole the straightest of the group, owing to the slightness 

 of its costal bend. Elbowed line, except in specimens where the 

 whole surface is blurred, generally broad and distinct, with a broad 

 thick marginal blotch, which in the female sometimes contains a 

 double line thus ^C , almost of the shape of the characteristic blotch 

 of berisalensis, but of the ground colour instead of black. Sometimes 

 the whole black marginal blotch is of this form, e.g. in the co-type in 

 the South Kensington Museum. The stigma is much like that of 

 athalia, but not filled up with black except in males of the first brood, 

 though in the females of this brood, and occasionally in both sexes of 

 the second, it contains a number of dark scales. The basal lines are 

 strongly marked, the space between them being sometimes filled in 

 with black, especially in first-brood males. 



Up. s. h. w. : The border has less tendency to divide than that of 

 the fore wing. The lunules are generally distinct, but often very 

 narrow. The outer and inner lines vary much in breadth. The 

 discal spot and the upper part of the extra line are generally clear of 

 the suffusion, and sometimes the whole of the line is visible. In 

 Zeller's example, however, the extra line is involved in the suffusion. 

 The basal spot is clear and generally as conspicuous as in athalia. 



Un. s. f. w. : Generally speaking, by far the most heavily and dis- 

 tinctly marked of the group, especially in the male. The inner edging 

 line of the border is more or less arched or angled ; the lunules are 

 often narrow, but light and clearly marked, except in dark specimens 

 of the first-brood males. The outer subterminal line shows as a dark 

 inner edging to the lunules, and is generally rather suffused, especially 

 towards the anal angle. The inner subterminal is only indicated in 

 the female, but generally clear and pronounced in the male, and is less 

 straight than on the upper side. Between the two is a row, or part 

 of a row, of light spots, which often recurs between the inner one and 



