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Wings hyaline, slightly enfumed as a rule and the hinderpair marked broadly 
with a large, saffronated spot which extends from the outer end of the trigone 
as far as the 3rd postnodal nervure. This spot is not sharply defined but gra- 
dually diffuses near the median nervure in front and quite close to or even 
meeting the posterior border of the wing. 
Es Wy fal i bet 9: 20 | 19-9 9-16 | 16°9 
Nodal index to wings :— es as le RR A ee 
11-123| Poy, TOs | 129° ee 
About 14 cells in the loop; hypertrigones traversed 3 to 4 times; 4 to 6 
cells in the trigones ; 4 to 5 cubital nervures. 
Membrane moderately large, brown or grey and white or yellowish at the base; 
stigma greyish yellow bordered with dark brown, 5 to 6 mm. length. 
Abdomen blackish brown with blue and orange or yellow markings as fol- 
lows :—Ist segment matt green on dorsum or buff coloured in some specimens 
and always so after death, the apex edged narrowly with dark brown; 2nd 
segment sky-blue above and at the sides but changing to white below and beneath, 
the dorsum with two, transverse, linear, black lines, the basal one of which is 
in the form of two scallops; 3rd segment withits basal half sky-blue, black 
spotted with orange at the apical half, the black area extending back in a cone- 
shaped manner into the blue and almost reaching the basal line of the segment ; 
segments 4 to 8 blackish brown, each marked with a pair of small, basal spots 
of orange, a pair of long, oval, apical, orange spots and finally a pair of similar 
coloured spots in line with and between these two. On segment 7 and 8 and 
not infrequently on all segments, the two apical spots coalesce to form an irregular 
band, and occasionally all three spots are found to join up. On segment 8 the 
basal spot is very small or missing ; segment 9 has a pair of triangular spots 
and 10 a pair of rounded, orange spots. 
Anal superior appendages brown, 5 to 6 mm. in length or equal to the combin- 
ed length of segments 9 and 10. Inferior appendages rather less than half 
the length of the superiors. (Fig. 3, i). The superior present a basal spine on 
the inner side and a flat, projecting ledge on the inner side ; the apex is bevel- 
led outwardly and pointed. The inferior appendages are curved up at the 
apex and end in a blunt point. 
The above description is made from a living specimen taken in Bombay and 
differs somewhat from the description of the type and from others taken further 
East and North. Dr. Laidlaw’s description of his Series B is as follows :— 
“Wings. Yellow tinge of hindwings less extensive, extends only as far as 
level of node. Basal white mark on membrane very small. 
Head. A small triangular area in front of vertex is brown. 
Abdomen. Black of dorsal surface is much more intense than in A (Type). 
The spots on the whole are smaller and do not coalesce and they are of a 
greenish yellow in colour. The basal spots on 7 and 8 are absent, the spot on 
9 is small and that of 10 absent. There are no spots below the lateral, acces- 
sory carine. 
Anal appendages similar to Type. Female unknown. 
Differs strongly in colour pattern from type and approaches Series C. In 
other respects it is not very different from A (Type). 
Length of hindwing 54 mm., of abdomen 56 mm., of superior appendages 6 
mm.” 
I regard this variety as a local race or variety of A. guttatus. 
Female—Very similar to the male but differing a little in shape and colour. 
The abdomen is more tumid and is not constricted at segment 3 as in the male. 
The whole abdomen tapers gradually from segment 2. 
The eyes are pale green, the face and frons yellowish, the latter having a fine, 
basal, black line. 
