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willows, poplars, some Satiifragacece (Gooseberry and Currant), 

 the Painted Lady on Thistles and other Compositce, Leguminosece, 

 Malvacece, &c. The type of the genus is the Red Admiral. 



60. Hypolimnas bolina, Linn. [PL B., fig. 7 d 1 , 7a $ ] — Wet-season form. — 

 Male upperside velvety black. Forewing : an oval shining irridescent blue 

 patch, broadly centred with white and traversed by the black veins obliquely 

 .crossing interspaces 3, 4, 5 ; two preapical, obliquely-placed, elongate, white 

 spots and a postdiscal, inwardly-curved, transverse series of minute white 

 dots. Hindwing : a central, oval, shining, irridescent blue patch, broadly 

 •centred with white and traversed by the black veins as on the forewing, 

 but larger ; a postdiscal series of minute white dots, in continuation of that 

 on the forewing. Fore and hindwings : cilia white, alternated with black. 

 Underside deep purplish brown. Forewing: some minute white flecks on 

 and just below basal half of costal margin, with a row of three or four 

 larger spots below them, an oblique discal series of three very slender 

 streaks and elongate oval spots from costa to interspace 3, two preapical 

 white spots continued as a postdiscal transverse row of white spots 

 ■&& on upperside, followed by an inner and an outer transverse subter- 

 minal series of lunular white marks and a terminal dark line. The 

 series of lunular white marks sometimes complete but generally well 

 defined only below vein 5. Hindwing: a tolerably broad, discal, white 

 band traversed by the black veins ; a postdiscal transverse series of 

 minute white dots in continuation of that on the forewing ; an inner 

 subterminal series of elongate whitish markings and an outer subtermi- 

 nal slender, white, lunular, broad line, followed by a terminal dark line. 

 Antennse, head, thorax and abdomen black ; beneath, the palpi, thorax and 

 abdomen dark purplish brown. 



Female upperside dark velvety brown, paling towards the outer margins. 

 Forewing : three or four irridescent blue spots from base of cell along and 

 just below costa to before the middle, from the middle of costa an oblique 

 ■series of rich irridescent blue marks to interspace 3 ; a postdiscal, sinuous, 

 transverse series of white spots, an inner subterminal series of short trans- 

 verse white, narrow markings in the interspaces and an outer subterminal 

 series of white lunules. Hindwing : a postdiscal transverse series of white 

 spots followed by a series of double cone-shaped white marks, one in each 

 interspace, and an outer subterminal series of white lunules. Underside 

 dull brown. Forewing : minute white flecks on, and one or two white spots 

 just below basal half of costal margin ; an oblique discal series of spots, two 

 preapical spots, a postdiscal transverse series of spots, an inner subterminal 

 series of somewhat cone-shaped marks and an outer subterminal series of 

 lunules white, often sullied with yellowish. Hindwing as on upper- 

 side but with the addition of a very broad discal, somewhat diffuse and 

 •obscure, whitish, transverse band and the cone-shaped inner subterminal 



