4ci 



grey, with a double row of spots on either side, and a 

 central median line black. 



" Primaries narrow, with hardly any perceptible anal 

 angle, the outer and inner margins meeting in a continu- 

 ous regular curve. The Secondaries are elongated and 

 narrow, and the inner margin deeply incised ; the 

 elongated hairs of the inner margin are pale yellow. 



" Larva (half grown) dark brown ; spines carmine ; 

 urticating process pale yellow. The head bears 4 spines 

 (2 long and 2 short). The 1st and 2nd segments 8 each, 

 the 3rd to the 5th 6 each, the 6th to the nth 4 each, the 

 1 2th 2 [Woodford's notes] ." 



In addition to these descriptions, I add the following 

 notes descriptive of examples in Mr. H. Grose-Smith's 

 museum, figures of which will be found on the plates 

 devoted to this species. 



S . The subapical patch of the primaries smaller than 

 usual, and divided by 2 stout black nervules, golden 

 opposite the light, a rich deep green obliquely against the 

 light. The green of all the wings a deeper suffused green, 

 especially towards the outer and anterior margins of the 

 secondaries. A sub-marginal green-golden band in the 

 secondaries extending from the anal angle to the 1st 

 subcostal nervule, and divided by the intervening ner- 

 vules into 5 confluent patches, of which the 3 central 

 contain golden spots. Length of costa 70 mms. Plate 

 21a, figs. 1, 2. 



5 . Marks in the discoidal cell of the primaries occupy 

 not quite half its area, and broadly divided by the black 

 of the wings. The basal half is a rich yellow, somewhat 

 indented, and rendered irregular in outline by yellow 

 atoms ; the central cellular half is creamy white, irregu- 

 larly indented, not quite reaching the subcostal nervure ; 

 all the other marks of each wing about the same as in 

 other examples, except the subcostal hastate yellow 

 patch, which extends only half way from the anterior 

 angle towards the base, and contains a large sub-orbicular 

 black spot. Underside of secondaries with the precostal 

 or internal cell, the greater portion of the costal margin, 

 and a small area of the discoidal cell at the base, yellow ; 

 no discal white spot in the space between the 1st and 2nd 

 branches of the median vein of the upper wing on either 

 surface, where there usually is a rather large mark ; and 

 on each surface of the same wing is a small white discal 

 spot outside the 3rd median branch, where usually no 

 spot is found ; 3 other small white spots on the upper 

 parts of the upper surface of the primaries, one in each 

 neural space. Length of costa 101 mms. [Plate 22a, 

 Figs. 1, 2.] 



$ . Primaries intensely black ; basal portion of wing to 

 2-3rds of the cell a rich Veronese green ; secondaries with 

 the same quality of green — golden green of wonderful 

 intensity if viewed opposite the light, but obliquely 

 against the light shot with purple reflections, and fiery- 

 orange on the under wing. The subapical patch intensely 

 golden when viewed opposite the light, and shaded into 

 golden or Veronese green in other positions and lights, much 

 larger too than in the $ cited above; the green outside the 

 internal nervure becomes in some lights nearly as golden 

 as the subapical patch. The discal portion of the lower 

 wings with groups of black atoms, whereof the most 

 extensive is situated between the 3rd and 2nd median 

 branches, causing the lower part of this space to be 



almost entirely black and to unite with the black of the 

 exterior margin ; the submarginal golden-green band of 

 the lower wings extends over the same space as in the S 

 cited above, but two of the enclosed quadrate spots are 

 larger, and the third is very small ; abdominal fold lucent 

 grey-brown. 



Abdomen, brownish ochraceous white with yellow anal 

 segment, and streaky spots on each side of 3 of the upper 

 segments ; 3 segments near the base of abdomen darker 

 than the rest of the body. Underside of wings golden 

 green, intensely golden in some lights, like a rich silk. 



Length of costa 76 mms. [PI. 21a, Figs. 3, 4.] 



2 . The white patch of the discoidal cell of the primaries 

 occupies rather more than 2-3rds of the cell from the 

 base, is suffused with yellow at and from the base, 

 graduating into the creamy white, and contains a moder- 

 ately long cuneiform black mark midway, nearly close to 

 the subcostal nervure ; on the under surface this latter 

 mark is absent, the light patch is almost entirely yellow, 

 and contains a few black spots ; the space on the upper 

 surface bounded by the internal and part of the submedian 

 nervures from the base is yellow, with yellow atoms below 

 the internal, and a line above the submedian touching 

 the median nervure, of the same colour ; these marks 

 absent on the under surface. Secondaries above with 

 the anterior margin to the base and within the 

 precostal, and a small basal portion of the cell yellow, 

 the cell modified by black atoms : beneath a corre- 

 sponding area of the same pure colour, producing a very 

 broad and conspicuous mass of yellow, with the whole of 

 the remainder of the base of the wing sprinkled with yellow 

 atoms ; the white spots and marks of all the wings of the 

 upper surface are rendered ochraceous yellow on the under- 

 side of the primaries, and nearly entirely yellow or 

 partially tinged on the secondaries. Some lines of yellow 

 atoms also along the anterior veins of the primaries. 



Thorax, head, and antennae black ; abdomen grey 

 ochraceous white, beneath yellow, with black subdorsal. 



Length of costa 100 mms. ; of posterior margin 73 

 mms.; of anterior margin 51 mms.; width of wing 55 

 mms. ; of hind wing, costa 67 mms. ; length of wing 75 

 and width 47 mms. Length of abdomen 41 mms. ; of 

 antennae 37 mms. ; of thorax with head 26 mms. 



T ,1 ( 1st pair — femur, 12; tibia, n; tarsi, 12 mms. 



L ^ th J 2nd „ „ 15 „ 14 „ 19 „ 



oflegs ( 3 rd ;; ;; 4; ,, &\ 



See plate 22a, fig. 3, and pi. 22b, fig. 1. 



19 



? . Wings greyish brown, white marks somewhat warm 

 ashy-white ; very little pale yellow in the primary 

 discoidal cell ; the same on the subcostal patch near the 

 base ; yellow of the subcostal mark of the secondaries 

 very pale ; under surface the same, but with more and 

 intense yellow in the cell ; a spot between 2nd and 3rd 

 subcostal nervules formed by yellow atoms, also a few 

 atoms of the same colour between the 1st and 2nd. Hind 

 wing with a yellow patch of scales on the brown at the 

 base, and around the precostal and base of the median 

 nervure in the cell ; a yellow mark between the costal and 

 subcostal, next below partially yellow, next 3 white, the 

 next pale yellow, and the abdominal margin more yellow — 



