ERTCINID^i: TAXILA. 



TAXILA DECORATA. 11, 13, 13. 



Uppeeside. Male biick-red ; anterior wing crossed obliquely at the middle by 

 a band of rufous-orange : the outer half dark brown ; posterior wing with its outer 

 margin from the apex to the tail paler, marked with four black spots. 



Underside rufous with numerous spots and bands of white ; anterior wing with 

 the outer half dark rufous-brown ; a lunular spot within the cell, a second beyond 

 the cell, a silvery-white spot and larger pale-yellow spot towards the anal angle : two 

 transverse cm'ved bands beyond the middle : the first of detached silvery white spots, 

 the second continuous : two silvery-white spots near the apex ; posterior wing crowded 

 with round and oblong white spots ; a submarginal band of silver spots, the middle 

 spot at the base of the tail with its centre black ; a black spot also near the apex. 



Fetnale orange-yellow ; anterior wing with the outer half dark brown ; posterior 

 wing with submarginal black spots from the apex to the tad. On the underside the 

 sexes are alike, except that some of the spots which are white in the male, are indis- 

 tinct and rufous in the female. 



Expan. 1^ in. Hab. Aru. 



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



Although the female of Taxila Pulchra has been figured in the voyage of the Coquille, I have 

 thought it well to repeat it here together with its male, to show the difference and at the same time the 

 great similarity of these two species. 



