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The more obsolete the maculation on secondaries, the more is the 

 tendency to form a ^ mark on primaries and to widen the longitudi- 

 nal bands. The discal spot is usually obliterated where the black band 

 is broken into spots. 



Females. 

 ^ mark or traces of if present none- 

 Marginal bands on secondaries broken none. 



Secondaries yellow, ochre or suflused with red none. 



Secondaries red with broad black marginal band 212. 



Male. — Head, collar and thorax dull yellowish, collar with two black 

 stripes or spots, often immaculate ; thorax with three black stripes ; 

 abdomen above rather deep ochre, dorsally banded with black, the 

 band most extended centrally, narrowed on last segment ; the width 

 of this band very variable. Head, thorax and abdomen below, also 

 legs and antennae black, only a few yellowish hairs near chest. 



Primaries black with rather prominent yellowish-white fringes. 

 Stripes pale ochre ; costal stripe reaching transverse posterior band ; 

 the ochre color covering the edge of costa often to its whole length. 

 The central longitudinal stripe unites with transverse posterior band 

 and both terminate ; the former sending off a more or less extended 

 submedian dart or streak, often forked at the end, towards inner angle. 

 Interior margin bordered with an ochre stripe. 



Secondaries ochre, rarely very pale, the ochre mostly suffused with 

 deep salmon or reddish, the latter often prevailing, always most intense 

 near inner margin. Costal region blackish, the black deepening and 

 extending at apex, forming a broad marginal band indented below apex 

 and never reaching anal angle. Fringes as on fore wings. The black 

 marginal band is subject to reduction into spots ; rarely reduced to 

 an apical spot and costal margin only. This reduction is generally 

 accompanied by an extension of the submedian stripe on primaries 

 to the inner angle and an attempt to produce a > mark. 



Female. — Head, collar and thorax as with S ; abdomen black be- 

 low, above varying from red to ochre, interspersed with reddish hairs ; 

 dorsally banded with black to tip of abdomen. This band is some- 

 times of uniform width, but usually attenuated in the middle, very 

 rarely filling dorsal and lateral space so as to leave only a narrow red- 

 dish stripe above the confluent, tooth-like black bands below. Fringes 

 of wings less prominent than with $ . 



Primaries black, only costal and central longitudinal stripes present, 

 the transverse posterior band fused with the longitudinal bands. The 



