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CETHOSIA CYANE, 



PLATE XIV. 



Pap. Cyane, Linn.— Cethosia Cyane, Fahr. Godart. — Pap. 

 Cyane, Drury, i. pi. 4, fig. 1. var. 



Extent of the wings nearly four inches, the length 

 not much exceeding the breadth, the whole external 

 margin deeply dentated and the notches margined 

 with white. Upper wings fulvous towards the base 

 and spotted with black ; the external half brownish- 

 black, traversed by an oblique white band, having 

 two rounded black spots at its lower extremity; 

 behind this are a few white marks in the shape 

 of a horse-shoe, and a line of white lunules ; and on 

 the margin itself a narrow festooned white line. 

 Surface of the secondary wings fulvous-yellow, with 

 several irregular black spots near the base, and three 

 regular transverse rows of black spots, the inner- 

 most formed of small rounded spots, the interme- 

 diate one of larger spots surrounded with white, and 

 the external one of spots inclining to a crescent- 

 shape ; the liinder margin brownish- black with a 

 festooned white line similar to that on the upper 

 wings. The whole of the under side is reddish- 

 yellow, with markings nearly corresponding to those 

 on the surface, but on the anterior wings there are 



