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apcal patch on forewing of male sliowing either a smaller white or entirely blue 

 centre with larger glossy-blue border ; the discal patch on the hindwing is also blue 

 centred. The female has the submarginal row of spots smaller on the forewing, and 

 also a dark blue oblique subapical fascia. Underside of both sexes alike, both 

 having a pale fascia indicated obhquely before the apex and another across the 

 hindwing. 



Expanse, $ 3-J-, ? 3f inches. 



This may probably be a seasonal variety of A . Bolina. 



APATURA MISIPPUS (Plate 29, Fig. 1 a, b, c). 



Papilio Misippus, Linnseus, Mus. Ulr. p. 264 (1764); Syst. Nat. i. 2, p. 767 (1767). 



Biadema Misipims, Butler, Catal. Fabr. Lep. B. M. p. 97; Trans. Eut. Soc, Lond. 1869, p. 278. 



Papilio Diocippus, Cramer, Pnp. Exot. i. pi. 28, f. B, C (1775), 5 . 



Papilio Bolina, Drury, Illust. Exot. Ent. i. pi. 14, f. 1,2,^; Cramer, Pap. Exot. i. pi. 65, f. E, F, $. 



Papilio Inaria, Cramer, Pap. Exot. iii. pi. 214, f. A, B {Dimorphic 9). 



Male. Upperside blackish violet-brown : forewing with a large oval purple- 

 white upper discal oblique patch and a small spot near the apex : hindwing with a 

 large cii-cular similar-coloured patch in middle of the disc. Female red : forewing 

 with the costal border and apical area to posterior angle blackish violet-brown ; an 

 oblique macular purple-white subapical band and a small spot near the apex ; a 

 marginal double row of broken white lunules : hindwing with a black costal Spot and 

 marginal band, the latter traversed by a row of broken white lunules. Underside. 

 Male : ferruginous-brown, discoidal area of forewing red : forewing with prominent 

 white oblique band, apical spot, and black-bordered discoidal spots : hindwing with 

 a broad medial transverse white band marked by a black costal streak ; a similar 

 streak bordering its inner costal end, another at base of costal vein ; a black lunular 

 streak also crossing anal end of the band ; a marginal row of small white spots, and 

 both wings with a marginal double series of white lunules. Female paler ferruginous 

 than upperside, the apex of forewing also ferruginous, the discoidal white spots 

 distinct : hindwing with a narrow black costal streak and another at end of the 

 cell. 



Blmori)Mc female [Fig. 1, &]. This differs from ordinary female in the absence 

 of the black ground colour, and the oblique white band, these parts being of the 

 same ferruginous colour as the other parts of the wing. 



Expanse, 5 3, ? oj inches. 



Larva purple-brown, numerously covered with minute white spots, cylindrical, 

 thickest towards the middle ; head armed with two erect rugose spines, the segments 



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