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two-thirds of the width of the clasp across its end, but having a 
deep notch below it and having five large marginal teeth, gradu- 
ated larger to the terminal one, which is strong and bold, 
haraldus is very near it, but is larger and more robust. 
There is no dorsal accessory process. 
Text-fig. 70. 
ripte (Oxford Coll.). X 37. 
15. puspa Horst. Cat. Lep. E. I. Co. p. 67. n. 3 (1828). 
This seems to be the most abundant and most widely dis- 
tributed species after argiolus. Like argiolus it has received 
in several varieties distinct names, in the belief that they were 
distinct species. Its distribution appears to be over practically 
the whole Indo-Malayan region, and we know that in many of the 
islands the species is found, often with a very definite varietal 
facies, and it is probable that nearly every island in the region 
possesses a race of puspa. 
puspa may always be recognised by the spots of the upper 
wing (beneath) having those between veins 2 and 4 and 4 and 5 
oblique, with the intermediate ones fairly straight and nearly in 
the line joining the centres of the oblique ones, and that between 
4 and 5 on the hind wing being similarly longitudinal rather 
than transverse. : 
The appendages are nearer to those of argiolus than those of 
any other species. The very similar spiculate spine, instead 
of having four or five teeth, has a very large number of very 
minute ones. The body of the clasp is also very much longer 
proportionally. 
