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Length of costa, 79 mms. ; of posterior margin, 66 

 mms. ; of interior margin, 39 mms. ; width of wing, 45 

 mms. ; length of costa of hind wing (i.e., from the base to 

 the apex), 34 mms. ; of posterior margin, 35 mms. ; of 

 abdominal margin, 38 mms., greatest width of wing, 35 

 mms., and length, 44 mms. 



Length of thorax and head, 11 mms. ; of abdomen or 

 antennae, 31 mms. 



Length 

 of legs : 



1st pair: femur 11; tibia 8; tarsi, 12 mms. 

 2nd ,, ,, 11 ; ,, 12 ; ,) 15 1. 

 3rd „ „ 11 ; . ., 13 ; „ 15 „ 



Habitat : Babuyanes ; Polillo ; E. Mindanao, Phil- 

 ippine Islands. 



? . Anterior wings dark fuscous brown ; with a bluish 

 silky sheen playing over the brown, most intense at the 

 base within the cell ; all the nervures and nervules very 

 dark, stout, and proceeding each midway through more 

 or less broad opal-white rays and bands — the discal rays 

 being somewhat fuscous in tint towards the posterior 

 margin, and the discocellular bands from the base ; the 

 pseudoneura are strongly marked ; there is also a very 

 narrow short whitish ray near the outer margin divided by 

 the submedian fold ; the fringe lunules are fairly promi- 

 nent, and of the same colour as the rays. 



Posterior wings a rich gamboge yellow ; with a broad 

 discal band of black strongly lunated within (or towards 

 the cell) and still more strongly lunated or scalloped 

 without (or towards the hind margin) ; the submarginal 

 black band is broad and strongly indented ; the two 

 bands therefore absolutely enclose the discal areas of 

 yellow, causing them to form a series of 7 irregular lunate 

 or dentate marks, divided by the nervules — the 1st apical, 

 quadrate, the 2nd subquadrate and lunate, the 3rd broad 

 and bidentate ; the next three more narrow and bidentate, 

 and dusted with black atoms, their bases being whitish ; 

 and the 7th at the anal angle almost like a broad note of 

 interrogation ; the abdominal margin is brown ; all the 

 yellow and brown almost from the median nervure being 

 shot with an opalescent white ; the veins very black, and 

 very prominent also on the black or dark bands ; the base 

 of the wings with the precostal nervure brown ; a few 

 white atoms on the submarginal band near the yellow ; 

 the fringe lunules are white ; as in the <? the yellow of 

 the wings, when viewed obliquely or on a level with the 

 eye, at a point opposite the light, becomes a glorious 

 opalescence of blue, green, and pink. The anterior wings 

 as in the <? are somewhat concave at the posterior mar- 

 gin ; and the posterior wings have the outer margin lunate. 



The underside of the anterior wings with markings 

 similar to those above, except that the white area of the 

 discoidal cell is rather more extensive, and together with 

 the two lowest white rays of the disk is sparsely dusted 

 with black atoms from the base. The posterior wings 

 with their markings similar to those of the upper surface, 

 except that the 7 submarginal dentate or subdentate marks 

 are fuscous white instead of yellow. The yellow of the 

 hind wing is also opalescent in the position mentioned 

 above, but in a fainter degree. 



The thorax and head a warm brown ; eyes silky brown ; 

 antennae black; pronotal collar crimson scarlet ; abdomen 

 ochraceous or opal-whitish, and tuft reddish-brown ; 

 subdorsum yellow, with black marks in each segment ; 

 lateral black dots. Thorax beneath with broad crimson 

 pectoral marks between the legs, and on the pronotum ; 

 legs black ; haustellum black. 



Length of costa, 82 mms. ; of posterior margin, 61 

 mms. ; of inner margin, 43 mms. ; width of wing above, 

 49 mms. Length of costa of posterior wing about 45 

 mms. ; of posterior margin, 39 mms. ; of abdominal or 

 inner margin, 43 mms. ; width of wing, 35, and length, 

 53 mms. 



Le " gth Lid 



oflegs( 3rd 



1st pair 



femur, g; tibia, 8; tarsus, 11 mms. 

 II; 13; n 15 m 



„ 10; 12; ,, 15- 



The figures on Plate 67 are all drawn from Felder's 

 types, for the loan of which 1 am greatly indebted to the 

 Hon. Walter Rothschild. 



A $ example in the British Museum is more brilliantly 

 opalescent on both surfaces than in Felder's type, so also 

 is one in Mr. Henry Grose-Smith's collection. A 3 

 in the Hewitson collection is larger than Felder's type, 

 and the red pronotal collar is almost concealed by the 

 black, while in all the British Museum specimens (which 

 include also the great Godman and Salvin collection) the 

 yellow of the posterior wings beneath are shot with a rich 

 emerald green when viewed obliquely against the light. 



Hab. ? Luzon ; Mindanao, Philippine Islands. 



The figs, on Plate 69 are from specimens in the collec- 

 tion of Mr. Henry Grose-Smith ; and I here thank him 

 for the kind loan of them. 



The $ of this species is sufficiently distinct from, and 

 the 2 abundantly unlike that of any other species. 



