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Costa, 80 ; outer margin, 63 ; inner margin, 41 mms. 

 Of the posterior wings, width 36 and length 50 mms. 



Habitat, West Java. 



? . Anterior wings. From the base to midway light 

 warm-brown; from thence to the hind margin dark 

 brown ; i-4th of the discoidal cell nearest the discocellular 

 nervule greyish white, encroaching on the darker colour 

 by grey atoms ; the usual series of grey white discal rays 

 each divided by the nervules, and extending from the 

 discocellular branches to near the hind margin (also in 

 the space between the 4th and 3rd subcostal branches) as 

 far as the 1st median branch, the one bordering the 2nd 

 median branch at 2-5ths of its length from the median 

 vein, and the next at 3-5ths : a thin short ray is divided 

 by the submedian fold, and the submedian nervure 

 ' broadly divides a broad ray or patch of grey at a little 

 more than half way from the base, extending nearly 

 to the anal angle. The fringe lunules are narrow, 

 and almost continuous with each other from the anal to 

 the apical angles, and are creamy white ; the nervules are 

 stout and their slender branches broadly defined by the 

 dark brown which margins them. Posterior wings : from 

 the base to 2-31-ds of the cell, and all the subcostal dark 

 area, a dark brown ; a broad discal area of greenish 

 yellow occupies 1.3rd of the cell, and the greater portion 

 of the disc, becoming less ample between the 3rd median 

 nervule and the submedian nervure as far as the abdomi- 

 nal margin, which is a sordid creamy or buff white, a part 

 of the light spaces between the 2nd and 3rd median 

 branches being of the same colour ; the marginal band is 

 broad, black and lunated, each lunation uniting with the 

 base of the internervular black discal cone, whose apices 

 all point towards the base of the wing, and are six in 

 number, — the 6th, enclosed by the 3rd median branch 

 and the submedian fold being much smaller, and uniting 

 with a dark brown spot near the anal angle — these two 

 latter being clouded with darker greyish macula produced 

 by black atoms ; the yellow area is rendered green by 

 dark hairs in the discoidal cell, and darkish atoms on the 

 disc, being most numerous and conspicuous at the base 

 of the internervular black cones ; the creamy-white fringe 

 lunules are conspicuous and well separated from each 

 other by the marginal dentations of the wing. 



Undersurface : anterior wings, similar to the upper side 

 except that the brown is lighter and more silky from the 

 base, the veins and pseudoneura are well pronounced, 

 and the light rays and marks are warmer in tone towards 

 the hind margin. Posterior wings : the arrangements of 

 markings and other details the same as on the upper 

 surface, but the black cones are more sharply outlined, — 

 are disconnected at their base from the marginal luna- 

 tions, — the 6th cone is as long as any of the others, but 

 narrower, and is united half way of its length with the 

 black abdominal margin, — the light and discal areas are 

 creamy white instead of yellow, as on the upper side, but 

 slightly suffused with yellow at the base of some of the 

 black conical marks ; a greyish white subapical-shaped 



mark terminated with a cuneiform spot ; the 3 lowest 

 marginal lunations are divided and modified by grey 

 atoms so as to constitute central black marks, and den- 

 tated black spots at the terminals of the nervules ; there 

 are 2 small black spots at the anal angle, and the sub- 

 median vein is margined a part of its length by creamy 

 white ; the abdominal fringe is black, and rather short. 

 Head and thorax black ; eyes dark brown ; the pronotal 

 red nearly hidden by the pilose covering, the pectoral red 

 spots beneath are almost concealed by the pilose covering 

 of the breast and femorae ; abdomen dark brown above, 

 laterally light yellow; beneath, all the segments black 

 divided by thin yellow articulations ; — the usual lateral 

 black dots are exchanged for rather large black spots ; 

 the anal segment very black. 



_ Length of anterior costa 88 mms., width of wing 50, 

 hind margin 66, and inner margin 49 mms. ; width of 

 posterior wing 44, length 61 mms. 



Measure- [ 1st pair: femur, 12 ; tibia, 10; tarsi, (?) mms. 

 ment of j2nd ,, : ,, 13; ,, 12; ,, 21 ,, 

 Legs. (3rd „ : ,, 11; „ 12; „ 16 „ 



Antennae or abdomen, 30 mms. ; thorax with head, 22 

 mms. ; articulations of antennae, 48 mms. 



Hab. : West Java, at a height of 4000 feet. 



The 2 of this species is most like the same sex of 

 P. Darsius of Gray, P. Helena, Linn., and Minos, Cram. 



I am greatly obliged to Mr. H. Grose-Smith for the 

 pleasure of figuring and re-describing this grand species. 



? . An example in the author's collection, while exhibit- 

 ing the same pattern on both surfaces, has all the discal 

 black conical and subconical spots of the lower wings 

 smaller than in the above 2 , while the light yellowish 

 area of the under surface is also considerably whiter. In 

 addition, on the left anterior wing (only) the subcostal 

 neuration is abnormal. [See PI. 33, fig. A. r. & N.I.] ; the 

 1 st subcostal nervule branches off at the usual point, pro- 

 ceeds a little way, till at a second point approximately 

 parallel to the end of the cell, it bifurcates into two veinlets : 

 the 3rd, 4th, and 5th branches commence in the usual way, 

 but the subcostal vein is slightly distorted at the spot 

 where the 2nd branch should originate — the hiatus being 

 only noticeable on a close observation ; it is really as if 

 the 1st branch were divided into 2 branchlets, the 2nd 

 branch were absent, and the other 3 branches were in the 

 normal position. Length of costa 76 mms. 



Hab., W. Java. 



$ . In the author's collection, differs little from the $ 

 described above. Length of costa 70 mms. 



Hab., W. Java. 



