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tail. This outline forms a broad, somewhat square 

 figure, having perhaps rather a heavy appearance, 

 but the curves are graceful. The caterpillar is 

 naked, or covered only with short pubescence, 

 thickest in the middle, and having two very long 

 hairy appendages at the hinder extremity. The 

 chrysalis is short, without any conspicuous projec- 

 tions, the abdominal portion very much incurved. 



The colour of the surface in the above species is 

 deep brown, darkest on the upper wings, which 

 have a wide fulvous sinuated band, rather beyond 

 the middle, commencing at the costa and reaching 

 nearly to the opposite side, where it terminates in a 

 point : the costa is likewise yellowish, and towards 

 the apex there is a round white spot. Posterior 

 wings of a lighter hue round the margin than on 

 the disk, and near the hinder extremity an indis- 

 tinct row of whitish points. On the under side all 

 the wings are light brown and ash colour, covered 

 with short waved lines of dark brown, and bearing 

 several continuous transverse bands of the same co- 

 lour, and towards the hinder margin of the inferior 

 pair a row of pale rounded spots. Body brown ; 

 prothorax with a fulvous mark. 



The caterpillar is very beautifully coloured. The 

 body is reddish, inclining to violet, the sides of the 

 belly and the legs dull yellow. Along the back 

 there is a broad yellow band formed of confluent 

 lozenge-shaped spots, each of them having a dusky 

 line in the centre : head ferruginous, bordered and 

 rayed with yellow. The anal fork is grey, with 



