. Butterflies. Vol. Lepidoptera. CETHOSIA.—CYNTHIA. 405. ig. vo black, with an ochraceous black-centred spot; interspaces 1-5 bluish white on disc, with very broad median short streaks, fol- lowed by a series of large oval spots of the black ground-colour; terminal and costal margins very broadly black, traversed by a post- discal row of transverse short, white, inwardly-turned lunules, and a subterminal row of much more slender, outwardly-turned, similarly coloured lunules. Cilia white. Underside : basal and discal areas of both fore and hind wings bluish green, variously barred and sp
. Butterflies. Vol. Lepidoptera. CETHOSIA.—CYNTHIA. 405. ig. vo black, with an ochraceous black-centred spot; interspaces 1-5 bluish white on disc, with very broad median short streaks, fol- lowed by a series of large oval spots of the black ground-colour; terminal and costal margins very broadly black, traversed by a post- discal row of transverse short, white, inwardly-turned lunules, and a subterminal row of much more slender, outwardly-turned, similarly coloured lunules. Cilia white. Underside : basal and discal areas of both fore and hind wings bluish green, variously barred and spotted with black, the short white streaks between the veins beyond apex of cell as on the upperside; a postdiscal band of pinkish white, somewhat obscure on the fore, more clearly denned on the hind wing, traversed by a series of oval black spots, followed by a broad subterminal even band of ochraceous yellow, inwardly margined by a row of black dots; terminal margins broadly black, traversed by a series of slender outwardly turned white lunules, each lunule with a short white median streak from the margin. Antennae black; head and thorax black above, greenish white spotted with black beneath; abdomen ochraceous, barred with black, beneath whitish with numerous black dots.— 2 • Similar, all the black markings smaller; the base posteriorly of the fore wing on the upperside greenish blue, no trace of ochraceous. Exp. & 2 82-110 mm. (3'22-4-32"). Hob. Ceylon. Larva. " Cylindrical, purplish black with red transverse bands, the sixth and eighth segments with a yellow band. Head armed with two long branched spines, the segments with two dorsal and two lateral rows of long, slender, finely-branched spines. Feeds on ; (Moore.) Pupa. " Brown mottled with ochreous-white, abdominal seg- ments tubercular ; wing-case dilated and exfoliated beneath. Head-piece with two pointed ; (Moore.) Genus CYNTHIA. Cynthia, Fabr. Illig. Mag. vi, 1807,
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