THE WHITE ADMIRAL 
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pupa turns a bronze-black all over, except for. the white 
markings, which are conspicuous. It loses almost all the 
metallic lustre of silver-gilt. The pupal state lasts about 
thirteen days. 
Imago. The average expanse of the wings in the male is 
60 mm. ; in the female, 64 mm. The sexual difference is 
slight. The female is rather larger and generally browner ; 
the rust-coloured circles at the anal angle of the hind wings 
are usually brighter and more developed ; the ground colour 
of the under surface is lighter than 
in the male. 
The ground colour is brownish- 
black ; a broad white median band 
crosses both fore and hind wings ; 
this is broken in the middle of the 
fore wing, where a small white spot 
exists (in some specimens missing); 
and there is a larger white spot 
between this and the outer margin. 
There are also two white spots 
between the band and the apex, 
and a faint greyish spot in the dis- 
coidal cell. Between the outer 
margins and the bands are three 
indistinct rows of deep black spots; 
those of the outer row are lunate 
in shape. The fringes are black 
and white. The under side is 
similar in pattern to the upper, 
but has a pure white mark in the 
discoidal cell, and other white basal markings on the fore 
wing, also a marginal row of white lunules on both wings. 
The pure white bands are rather broader than those on the 
upper surface. The ground colour of the male is rich deep- 
tawny and paler orange-tawny in the female. The basal and 
whole of the inner marginal area is a delicate pale pearly- 
blue-grey, which is separated from the white band by an 
irregular tawny bar ; the cell of the fore wing and base 
of the hind wing are checkered with black and the’ middle 
of the fore wing is clouded with greyish-brown. The sub- 
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Larva of the White Admiral, 
fully grown. 
B.B. 
