ERYCINIDiE. 



TAXILA. II. 



TAXILA PULCHRA. 8, 9, 10. 



^ Arffi/nnis PiilrJurt Gucr. Voy. Coquil., PI. lQ,fr/. 2, 3. 



Upperside. Male dark brown ; anterior wing crossed, from the first discoidal 

 nervide to the outer margin near the anal angle, by a band of silvery white. 



Underside rufous with numerous bands of white ; anterior wing with the 

 outer half dark rufous-brown ; a band and two spots within the cell, a luuiilar spot 

 at the end of the cell, two curved transverse bands of white spots beyond the 

 middle : the first band of five detached spots (four small and silvery, the fifth larger), 

 the second band nearly continuous ; two silvery white spots near the apex (one partly 

 black) ; posterior wing with a short tail : crossed from its costal margin to the median 

 nervule by four curved bands of white followed by two silvery white spots, the 

 median nervules broadly white followed by two curved bands of white parallel to the 

 outer margin : a submarginal band of silvery white spots, the middle spot at the base 

 of the tail with its centre black : a black spot near the apex. 



Female rufous ; anterior wing with a large central space of orange-yellow, the 

 outer half black ; the posterior wing with the outer margin and some spots near it 

 dark brown. On the underside the sexes are exactly alike. 



Expan. Ij^o in. Hab. Waigiou. 



In the Collections of W. W. Saunders and W. C. Hewitson. 



