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followed by a curved macular, discal band that also varies in colour from 

 pale ferruginous to black and has the posterior spots often obsolescent or 

 even completely absent ; a series of minute, black dots at the vein ends that 

 runs to the termen and may or may not be connected by a slender, anteci- 

 liary, black line. Antennte pale-brown speckled with white ; head, thorax 

 and abdomen black ; head and thorax anteriorly clothed with brown, 

 sometimes greyish-black hairs ; beneath : palpi, thorax and abdomen white. 

 Female upperside white, base of wings lightly, often heavily, irrorated 

 with greyish-black scales. In some specimens the irroration is very scanty, 

 in others it occupies fully a third of the wings from base and extends 

 as a broad band parallel to dorsum on the hindwing. Forewing : an 

 apical, carmine patch as in the male but smaller, sometimes reduced 

 to a mere row of preapical, pale-rosy streaks, but always bordered 

 externally, and generally internally also, by black of varying width. In 

 some specimens the inner-black border is very narrow, in others broad and 

 in a few, entirely absent. The outer border, again, in some specimens, is 

 inwardly festooned and may be either broad or comparatively narrow. Dis- 

 cocellular spot as in the male but larger, followed by an anterior, postdiscal, 

 macular, curved, black band, the upper spots of which cross the carmine area 

 or, when the carmine area is reduced to short streaks, the band crosses the 

 black, internal edging to it, showing up in a darker tint than the edging 

 itself ; lastly, a black, transverse, somewhat diffuse spot in interspaces 1 and 

 2. Hindwing : with a dusky spot on the discocellulars ; a black, macular, 

 discal, curved, more or less incomplete band, and a terminal row of black 

 spots that in some specimens are connected to form a continuous band. All 

 these markings are generally diffuse. Underside, forewing : white, suffused 

 with sulphur-yellow at base of cell and with ochraceous (in some specimens 

 ochraceous-grey, in others ochraceous-red) on apical area ; spot on discocel- 

 lulars, the postdiscal, macular band and spots in interspaces 1 and 2 as on the 

 upperside, but more clearly defined, the spots that comfjose the postdiscal 

 band sometimes annular. Hindwing : white, suffused to a greater or less 

 degree with ochraceous, sometimes pink spot on discocellulars and discal, 

 macular band as on the upperside ; but both the discocellular spot and the 

 spots that compose the latter more clearly defined, annular and generally 

 centred with carmine ; a terminal row of black specks which may or may not 

 be connected with a very slender, anteciliary line. Antennge, head, thorax 

 and abdomen above and below as in the male. Expanse 40-52mm. 



Larva. — The larva is somewhat like a small Hebomoia in that the dorso- 

 ventral line is somewhat flanged ; that is, the otherwise even curves of the 

 transverse section is slightly prominent-angled there ; the colouring is also, 

 somewhat like that of H. glaucip2)e\ the 12th segment is however here slightly 

 swollen dorsally and laterally, though evenly. The head is about the same 

 diameter as segment 2 ; its vertex is sometimes, when the larva is at rest, 

 slightly covered by the straight front margin of that segment ; the shape 

 is round, the clypeus is large and triangular, longer than broad and about 

 half the length of the height of the head ; the false clypeus appears over its 

 apex as an arch ; the surface of the head is set with many minute, lowly 

 cylindrical, white tubercles, the intervals between them amounting to about 

 two or three tubercle-diameters, each tubercle bearing a short, stiff, black 

 hair directed downwards, each hair being not quite twice the length of the 

 tubercle from which it springs ; there are still smaller, similar tubercles, 

 diflicult to see because of their minute size, in the intervals ; the colour of 

 the head is green, the eyes are white-glassy, sometimes touched with brown, 

 arranged 5 in a gentle curve, the 6th inside it and opposite the middle one ; 

 the labrum and ligula are shiny green ; the antennal second joint suffused- 

 brownish, the basal joint green ; the jaws are tipped dark. The surface of 



