108 LEPIBOPTERA INBICA. 



Genus ARASCHNIA. 



Araschnia, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 37 (181G). Doubleday and Hewits. Gen. D. Lep. p. 187 

 (1848). Staudinger and Schiitz, Exot. Schmett. ii. p. 123 (1887). Leech, Butt. China, etc., i. 

 p. 2G7 (1892). 



Ijiago. — Male. Wings moderately small. Forewing elongatedly triangular ; 

 costa ver^r slightly arched, apex rounded, exterior margin oblique, sinuous, slightly 

 convex below the apex, posterior margin slightly recurved ; costal vein extending to 

 about three-fifths the length ; cell extending to nearly half the wing ; first subcostal 

 emitted at about one-sixtli before end of the cell, short and running close to the 

 costal near its end, and in some specimens slightly anastomosed to it close to its 

 end; upper discocellular extremely short and outwardly-oblique, middle disco- 

 cellular erect and concave, lower discocellular outwardly-oblique ; middle median 

 emitted at some distance before lower end of the cell, lower median at half distance 

 before end of cell ; submedian vein slightly recurved. Hindtving small, conically- 

 triangular ; anterior margin almost straight from basal lobe, apex rounded, exterior 

 margin convex and sinuous, abdominal margin somewhat convex, anal angle 

 pointed ; precostal vein straight; radial emitted near the base of subcostal branch ; 

 cell open. Body moderately slender ; eyes hairy ; head hairy in front ; palpi 

 rather slender, tliird joint rather long, pointed, smooth, second joint clothed with 

 fine longish hairs beneath and above, sides smoothly scaled ; fore tarsi in male 

 clothed with fine long silky laterally-divergent hairs ; fore tarsi in female slender, 

 smooth, joints spined at tip beneath. 



Larva. — Head with two erect brauched-spines. Segments -witli a dorsal, and 

 lateral rows of branched-spines. 



Pupa. — Head-piece short, cleft ; thorax dorsally angled ; abdomen with a 

 dorsal and a shorter lateral row of points. 



Type. — A. Levana. 



Seasonal Dimorphism. — In tlie European species, Levana is now known to be 

 the spring form and Prorsa the summer form of one species. 



ARASCHNIA DOHERTYI (Plate 320, fig. 3, 3a, h, S ? )• 

 Araschnia Prorsoides, Elwes, Proo. Zool. Soc. 1891, p. 285, pi. 27, fig. 5, 6, c? ? {nee Blanchard). 



Imago.— Male. Upperside dark purpurescent-brown ; cilia black, alternated 

 with ochreous-white. Foreiving with two, or three, pale reddish-ochreous speckles 

 within the base of tlie cell, a slender curved streak and two straight streaks across 

 the middle of cell, followed by an upper wedge-shaped ochreous spot near end 

 of the cell; below the cell is a short slender ochreous streak and an outer 



