PROTHOE. 3S1 



Key to the forms of Prothoe. 



a. Upperside : ground-colour black. 



a'. Upperside fore wing : discal blue band 



medially marked with white P.francki, race 



V ' . Upperside fore wing : discal blue band [angelica, p. 381. 



medially not marked with white P. regalis, p. 382. 



b. Upperside: ground-colour, fore wing creamy 



yellow, hind wing bluish white P. calydonia, race be- 



lisama, p. 382. 



392. Prothoe francki, Godart, Encycl. Meth. ix, Suppl. 1823, p. 825. 



Race angelica (PI. VIII, fig. 60, £ ). 

 Prothoe angelica, Butler, A. M. N. H. (5) xvi, 1885, pp. 53, 54 ; 

 de N. Butt. Ind. ii, 1886, p. 295, front plate, fig. 120 J ; Moore, 

 Lep. Ind. iv, 1899-1900, p. 124, pi. 326, figs. 1, la-lc, tf $ . 



Race angelica, Butler. — <$ . Upperside : black basal area of 

 fore wing and posterior two-thirds of the hind wing from base to 

 near termen irrorated with greenish scales, turning to blue out- 

 wardly on the hind wing. Pore wing : discocellulars with an 

 angular black mark bordering them on the inner side, followed by 

 a very broad blue discal band from costa to tornus ; this band 

 traversed medially by a series of white markiags from costa to 

 interspace 1, the white markings more or less faint posteriorly on 

 the wing ; two preapical spots and a subterminal spot in inter- 

 space 5 white. Hind wing touched with white at the apical angle 

 and with a pale blue subterminal interrupted line between veins 

 1 a and 4. Underside pale ochraceous greyish brown. Pore wing : 

 the greater portion of interspaces 1 a and 1 fuliginous black ; cell 

 with the following black markings : three heavily lined circular 

 basal marks, a narrow zigzag medial band, and a transverse heavily 

 lined loop along the discocellulars ; the discal band and three 

 white spots of the upperside indicated by obscure bluish-white 

 markings ; an irregular upper postdiscal black subtriangular patch 

 traversed below the costa by a narrow, uninterrupted, short, trans- 

 verse band of the ground-colour, the margins of this patch highly 

 sinuous ; a basal and subterminal black spot in interspace 2 ; a basal, 

 medial and subterminal black spot in interspace 3 ; an irregular, 

 elongate, inwardly constricted black mark in interspace 4 ; a black 

 spot above it in interspace 5, and a subterminal broken transverse 

 black line from interspace 5 to costa just before the apex. Hind 

 wing variegated at base and in cell by a number of transverse 

 heavily lined black markings and loops ; a black irregular upper 

 discal patch ; an elongate conspicuous series of broad cone-like 

 greyish-green markings defined inwardly and outwardly by black 

 lines and irrorated with dusky black scales ; an ochraceous-red 

 spot near apex of interspace 1 ; the anterior portion of the tail 

 and the interspace above it subterminally black. Antennae dark 

 ochraceous red ; head, thorax and abdomen dark greyish brown ; 



