64 . AKGYNNIS PAPH1A. 



spot in front of each subdorsal spine, though finely 

 edged outwardly with brownish-ochreous, and also 

 behind the spine with the same colour, and two faint 

 curving lines of it breaking there the black ; the ground 

 colour of the sides, just as far as the lowest row of 

 spines, is velvety-brown, adorned along the middle by 

 a series of rather fusiform, black, velvety marks, one 

 on each segment, intersected in the middle by the 

 lateral spine, and finely edged with brownish-ochreous ; 

 some short rudiments of other fine ragged lines of this 

 colour occur on parts of the ground, but become very 

 faint along the spiracular region, where a few freckles 

 appear of lighter ochreous. The oval spiracles are 

 black. The spines are of a reddish-ochreous colour, 

 with their extreme tips and branches black. The 

 belly is of a dull blackish-brown, abruptly contrasted 

 with the side, and rather inclining to chocolate-brown 

 at the segmental divisions ; the w^arts paler and glisten- 

 ing, hairs black. The anterior legs black, shining, and 

 hairy, as are the ventral and anal prolegs above, but 

 pinkish and smooth below, with a fringe of blackish 

 hooks on the feet. 



The chrysalis, about an inch long, when seen side- 

 ways is deepest across near the end of the wing-covers, 

 and the largest projecting points; seen in front it is 

 broadest across the bases of the well-defined wing- 

 covers, which project laterally in curved ridges from 

 the thorax — itself rather sharply keeled in the centre, 

 — from this is a deep depression, and thence again the 

 abdomen swells out in a backward tapering curve to 

 the point by which it is suspended ; in the subdorsal 

 region, on each side of the back, is a row of obtuse, 

 tapering, prominent points, smaller in the depression, 

 and much smaller still on the thorax ; a larger pair at 

 the head are suggestive of ears. The pupa skin is of 

 a dull fawn-colour, varied with paler and with fine 

 brown reticulation. There is a line of brown along the 

 spiracles, and a stripe of a darker brown on each side 

 beneath the abdomen ; a fine, rather wavy, line of dark- 



