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and grey liair'; primaries below with the costal and basal areas greyish ; 

 discal area tawny, with sub-apical spot as above, bounded externally by a 

 reddish-brown streak which becomes black at the external angle ; costa and 

 apical area sandy-yellowish ; two subcostal internervular streaks and the 

 outer margin shining silver ; fringe ferruginous ; secondaries sandy-yellow^ 

 the veins pale yellow ; the whole of the internervular folds represented by . 

 well-defined shining silver streaks ; a discoidal streak, and the outer margin 

 also silver ; costal margin white ; fringe grey ; body below grey, legs 

 whitish ; expanse of wings, 1 inch 11 lines. 



Female. — Altogether paler, and smaller than the male, the borders above 

 whitish ; wings below whitish ; the discal area orange, becoming very pale 

 towards costa ; markings as in the male, but less defined ; expanse of 

 wings, 1 inch 8-10 lines. 



Subfamily, Nymphalin^, Bates. 

 Pyrameis, Hilbner. 



4. Pyrameis hersliaivii. PI. XII., Fig. 1. 



Cynthia kershawii, M'Coy, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., IV., vol. 1, p. 76 (1868). 

 Pyrameis cardui, var. P. hershawii, Butler, Erebus and Terror, Lep., p. 29 (1874). 



Primaries above brown at the base ; the central area fleshy-pink 

 clouded with fulvous, crossed by an irregular oblique black belt, a spot of 

 the latter divided off by a slender oblique line of the ground colour within 

 the discoidal cell ; apical area and outer border broadly black ; a post- 

 discoidal oblique trifid white patch, followed by an arched series of four 

 white spots, the iippermost bifid, the lowermost largest and rounded ; an 

 indistinct sub-marginal series of linear white markings from above the 

 second median branch to the costa ; fringe white, interrupted by black at 

 the terminations of the nervures ; secondaries brown ; the end of the cell 

 and the disc flesh- colour, clouded with fulvous ; the costa and apex black ; 

 four blue-centred discal black spots ; a sub-marginal series of five fusiform 

 black spots, end to end; a marginal series of larger sub-conical black spots ; 

 fringe as in primaries ; body brown. Primaries below with the base to the 

 middle of the cell rosy ; the end of the cell white, bounded externally by a 

 trifid black bar ; the apical area varied with olive-brown and silvery-grey ; 

 the whole wing clearer and brighter than above ; secondaries white, clouded 

 with pale dull yellow and marbled with brown, indicating a central broad 

 irregular band ; the apical thu'd of discoidal cell white ; five discal ocelli ; 

 the second and fifth largest with bifid lilac centres, the first small with the 

 iris broad and white internally, the third and fourth medium-sized with 

 blue centres ; outer border testaceous, edged with black, bounded internally 

 by a sub-marginal white stripe, in front of which are two interrupted 

 sinuated blackish hnes filled in at anal angle with pale lilac ; body below 

 greyish-white ; expanse of wings, 2 inches 6 lures. 



