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VANESSA ORITHYA. 
PLATE XV. Fig. 3. 
Codart Pap. N. Oritliya, Linn. Fabr. — Roesel's Beslust. In- 
sect. vol. iv. pi. 6, fig. 2 Pap. Orithya, Cramer , PI. 1 9, 
fig. C, D ; PI. 32, fig. E, F ; PI. 281, fig. E, F : PI. 209, 
fig. A, B, C, D. 
This very elegant species, which is a native of China 
and the island of Java, is subject to much variation 
in its colour and markings. In its most ordinary 
state the colour of the surface is velvet-black in the 
male and dark brown in the female, with two large 
ocelli on each wing having a violet-blue pupil and 
a yellowish-red iris. The costa of the primary wings 
is generally dull white, and towards the base are 
two or three transverse stripes alternately blue and 
tawny-yellow ; towards the apex are three whitish 
bands, the interior one broadest, the middle one 
interrupted by the ocellus, the third narrow and ly- 
ing along the external margin. The secondaiy wing8 
are surrounded by a white hand divided throughout 
its whole length by a double undulating black line ; 
the space between this band and the middle of the 
wing bluish-green in the male, a colour which 
scarcely appears in the female, and the anterior 
portion generally black in the former sex. Under 
side pale, the transverse stripes much elongated and 
