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oblique irregular-sliaped angular band, the apical area and exterior border black ; 

 before the apex is a short white oblique band and a curved series of four spots ; a 

 pale marginal line ; interspace at end of cell whitish in the female : hindwing with 

 the basal area, a confluent discal fascia, and the costal border ochreous-brown ; a 

 transverse discal row of five black spots, each spot with slightly pale outer ring, a 

 submarginal row of lunular spots, and a marginal row of larger spots. 



Expanse, ^ 1\, 2 2f inches. 



Larva blackish-brown, with a longitudinal pale interrupted line on each side ; 

 the segments armed with short branched spines. Feeds on Artemisia. Pupa 

 tuberculate, head bluntly cleft, pale ochreous or brown, more or less spotted with 

 yellow. 



" Found everywhere, but more plentiful in the higher districts " (Machvood). 



Genus CETHOSIA. 



Cethosia, Fabricius, Illiger's Mag. vi. p. 280 (1807); Doubleday, Gen. D. Lep. p. 150. 

 Alazonia, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Sehmett. p. 46 (1816). 



Forewing triangular; costa arched, apex convex, exterior margin oblique, 

 sinuous ; costal vein extending two-thirds of the margin ; first subcostal branch 

 emitted immediately before end of the cell, second at one-third beyond, third at one- 

 half, fourth and fifth at nearly two-thirds beyond the cell ; upper discocellular 

 shortest, bent inward contiguous to subcostal and thence deeply concave below, 

 lower slightly concave ; cell broad, truncate at the end ; two upper median branches 

 from end of the cell, lower at more than one-third before its end, upper much curved 

 from its base ; submedian recurved : hindwing broad ; exterior margin convex, 

 deeply sinuous ; costal vein extending to apex, basal spur curved outward and 

 emitted at some distance above base of subcostal ; first subcostal branch emitted at 

 one-fourth before end of the cell; discocellulars curved obliquely outward, radial 

 from their middle ; two upper median branches from end of the cell, lower from 

 opposite second subcostal ; submedian straight, internal recurved at its base. Body 

 moderately stout; palpi porrect, finely pilose, second joint projecting one-third 

 beyond the head, third joint short, pointed ; legs slender ; antennge with a slender 

 club. • 



CETHOSIA KIETNERI (Plate 27, Fig. 3 a, b). 

 Cethosia Nietneri, Felder, Reise Novara, Lep. iii. p. 380, pi. 48, f. 5, 6 (1867). 



Male. Upperside blue-black ; forewing with the lower basal area ochreous 

 merging to ochreous-white ; some pale streaks across the cell ; a bluish-white streak 



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