Insects. 7283 



Tegnla bluish black, shining, the inner margin broadly yellow. 

 Fore wings : costa bluish black, bluish brown or blackish brown, 

 on the extreme edge near the apex margined with bright yellow 

 scales ; outer and inner margins (and sometimes the central band) 

 brownish black ; the terminal band is diversified with three or four 

 wedge-shaped pale yellowish patches ; the usual longitudinal cunei- 

 form area and the external rotundate areoli are pearly white, the edges 

 of the former and the nerves passing through the latter with very pale 

 j^ellowish or white scales ; the nerves through the rotundate areola 

 very much mixed with brown •, a streak just above the inner margin 

 more or less yellow (it is, however, wanting in some specimens and is 

 replaced by a hyaline space). Hind wings : the fringe line broadly 

 brownish black, widest in the middle and gradually narrowing to the 

 base of the wings ; fringes to all the wings ashy gray, with the apices 

 of the scales whitish, much whiter towards the base of the hinder 

 wings. Coxae growing dusky, the front ones conspicuously white, 

 the hinder ones variegated with white. Femora of a dusky colour, 

 the front ones approaching a clay-colour on the upper side, hinder 

 ones have the outer margins somewhat yellowish. Tibiae of a dusky 

 colour, the front ones yellowish above, the hind ones are sprinkled 

 with chalk-coloured scales ; the spurs, the terminal hairs at the joints 

 and tufts on the outer margin more or less yellow. Tarsi : upper 

 side whitish, clay-colour or yellow, beneath brownish. Abdomen 

 above iridescent, brownish black, besprinkled with yellow scales; 

 especially on the middle of the segments ; on the under side 

 the whole (in some specimens) is covered with pale yellow scales; 

 on the posterior margins of the second, fourth and sixth segments 

 with a narrow silver-white or snow-white belt. The terminal tuft in 

 the male dusky above and yellow beneath ; in the female dull yellow, 

 and dusky intermixed in the centre above, dull yellow at the sides 

 and dusky beneath. 



Dr. Staudinger gives three varieties in his * Berlin Species ' : — 

 " a. Abdominis segmentis 2 — 7 postice tenuiter niveo sive flavido 

 annulata." ■■>.: 



" 0. Abdomen linea laterale, latu distincta flavescente. >* 



" y. Neuris antennarum pauci tantem dentes aculeis instruct! ; areas 

 tres permaguae, externae areola quinta ceteris non brevior." 



I can add to the above two more varieties, viz. : — 

 5". Abdomine nigro attenuatissimo versus anum cum annulo sub- 

 tili albo in marginibus posterioribus 2, 4 segmentorum S.. ,,.,r^,. 



