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J. Wood-]Mason — On Hebomoia Roepstorffii. 



[No. 3, 



XI Y. — Description of the Female 0/ Hebomoia Roepstorfl&i. 

 By J. Wood-Maso^". 



(Received October 27 ; — Bead November 3rd, 1880.) 



HeBOHOIA RoEPSTOEPI'n. 

 Wood-Mason, antea, p. 134, 



?. Uppeesibe. .Fore-yjzKywith the orange patch devoid of amethys- 

 tine gloss, externally more broadly bordered with fuscous (which at each 

 veinlet gives off inwards an angular process the extremity of which is 

 continued on as a very narrow edging to each side of the veinlet), but inter- 

 nally much less distinctly so than in the male ; with the cell more clouded 

 ■with dark scales ; and with the sulphur-colour at the inner angle more 

 diffused. Ilind-wing with a marginal row of large subtriangular fuscous 

 spots placed upon the veinlets from the first subcostal to the first median 

 (the two last obsolete), decreasing from the second in the direction of 

 the anal angle, and connected together at the extreme margin of the wing 

 by a narrow edging of the same colour, which extends to the anal angle ; 

 "with a submarginal series of six roundish spots, similarly decreasing from 

 the fii-st, and alternating with those of the marginal series, each being 

 placed upon a fold, the first and largest on the fold between the costa and the 

 fi^rst branch of the subcostal, and the last on that between the first and 

 second median veinlets; and with the sulphur-colour around the four inter- 

 mediate submarginal spots stained with orange. Uxdeeside of loth icings 

 paler. 



Length of fore-wing 1*7 ; whence expanse = 3*5 inches. 

 Hab. South Andaman. 



Described from a specimen in the collection of Captain Gr. F. L. 

 Marshall, E. E., who courteously offered me the loan of the insect for 

 description as soon as he had seen the description of the male published in 

 the last number of this Joui-nal. 



In Captain Marshall's specimen of the male the submarginal spots 

 of the fore-wing are obsolete. 



