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the fourtlh hy median nerviire^ and the seventh is much reduced and 
attenuated (rarely obsolete), heing immediately preceded hy a conspi- 
cuous crimson-red liinide (additional to the inferior one also present in 
Policenes) ; spots of submarginal series much larger and broader, espe- 
cially the upper non-lunulate ones ; hoary-grey scaling beyond three 
lower spots of this series more conspicuous and of a more pronounced 
lunulate form. Under side. — Mnch paler, glistening didl-hrown or 
yellowish-broivn^ with a slight violaceous lustre; nearly all the greenish- 
white markings someiuhat enlarged ; no perceptihle hoary-grey suffusion 
hetioecn diseal and suhmargincd series of spots. Fore-ioing : on costa, 
at base, a narrow edging of crimson-red ; first and third disco-cellular 
hccrs outiuardly, and second inwardly, edged ivith hlack ; a series of black 
lunules inwardly edging submarginal series of spots ; inner-marginal 
area, on both sides of -broad lower portion of discal band, blackish ; 
along hind-margin a series of very indistinct small blackish nervular 
marks. Hind-icing : a very narrow crimson-red mark at base ; a black 
spot on costa between sub-basal stripe and broad commencement of 
discal macular band, and a black diffused outer border to the same 
band in its upper part ; hctiuecn costal and subcostal nervures, on inner 
side of discal 7nacular hand, a consp)icuous elongated black spot^ inwardly 
edged loith crimson-red; below this, in discoidal cell, a very much 
smaller similar spot, usually ill-defined ; spots of submarginal series 
distinct, all lunulate, inwardly edged with black (densely bluish-scaled 
between third and first median nervules) ; on hind-margin a series of 
black sub-lunulate marks, the three lower ones large, conspicuous, 
inwardly bounded by bluish ; crimson-red anal-angular mark inwardly 
white-edged and bounded by black on both sides, immediately sur- 
mounted by a narrower similarly-coloured mark. 
Abdomen black above, white beneath ; on sides transversely striped 
with cream-colour and black, — the two creamy stripes next base tinged 
with crimson-red. 
$ Like $ ; but (as in $ Policenes) with the basal stripe in hind- 
wing enlarged and forming a rather wide inner-marginal border. 
The large size of Antheus, its want on the under side of the 
hind-wings of all but the two uppermost and lowermost of the long 
series of crimson-red marks, and the transverse striping of the abdo- 
men, are conspicuous features which at once distinguish the species 
from Policenes} The very nearly allied P. Evombctr, Boisd., from 
Madagascar, may be readily recognised by the confluence in both 
wings (in the fore-wings only on inner margin) of the enlarged central 
band and the sub-basal stripe, and the absence of any crimson spot on 
the upper side of the hind-wings. It should, however, be noted that 
^ I have not seen P. Lurlinus, Butl. {Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hid., 5th Ser., xii. p. 106, 
1883), from Victoria Nyanza, but from Mr. Butler's description (of the <J only), its differ- 
etices from Anthews appear to be very slight, consisting chiefly in its larger size (exp. about 
4 in.) aad greater width of all the green markings. 
