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apical spur and a pair of short apical ones. Fore wing olive - 

 green, partly relieved with white, which gives it a sage-green 

 appearance in certain lights ; hind margin a little more 

 deeply sinuate than in R. floralis and more convex in lower 

 half, and here hardly at all dentate ; three olive-green trans- 

 verse lines nearly as in floralis, the first straight, shaded 

 with, white on outside, the second slightly convex, the third, 

 which crosses R 3 half-way between cell and distal margin, 

 more strongly convex in anterior third and here more distal 

 than in floralis ; between second and third lines a narrow 

 band consisting of two rather faint olive-green lines which 

 costally are curved basad ; beyond this band a diffuse white 

 costal spot ; terminal area a little paler green, relieved with 

 white, the proximal margin of this terminal border dentate, 

 the grey shading projecting at R 2 to near the discal line ; 

 hind margin red at base. Hind wing carmine, costal area down 



Fig. 46. — Rhodoprasina callantha Jord., <J. 



to R 1 and anal area dull olive-green, the former more sharply 

 defined than in floralis ; the red area extending to termen 

 between R 1 and R 3 , but washed with olive-green at the 

 termen. 



Underside paler green than upper, with a distinct yellowish- 

 green tint ; fore wing as in floralis, with a large carmine patch 

 from near base to just beyond apex of cell ; a discal line 

 slightly S- shaped, bounded with white costally on the proximal 

 side, the white scaling also forming a diffuse costal spot 

 proximally of the white line, but connected with it ; between 

 this line and the termen a diffuse dark olive -green dentate 

 line corresponding to the distal boundary of the olive-green 

 area of the upper side. Hind wing : costal margin slightly 

 but distinctly concave from near base, convex at three - 

 fourths where the distal transverse line reaches the costal 

 margin ; three lines as in floralis, but the second line placed 

 much nearer to the first than to the third ; proximally of second 



