. Butterflies. Vol. Lepidoptera. PAREBA. 469 6 2 • Fore wing elongate ; costa straight, slightly arched along its apical third; apex rounded; termen very oblique; tornus rounded; dorsum straight; cell elongate, somewhat more than half the length of the wing; upper discocellular obsolete or very short, middle deeply concave, lower inclined very obliquely outwards ; vein 3 from well before lower apex of cell, 4 from apex; origin of veins 6, 10 and 11 variable, 6 sometimes from upper apex of cell, sometimes a little below it, 10 always out of 7 but at varying distance from upper apex of ce
. Butterflies. Vol. Lepidoptera. PAREBA. 469 6 2 • Fore wing elongate ; costa straight, slightly arched along its apical third; apex rounded; termen very oblique; tornus rounded; dorsum straight; cell elongate, somewhat more than half the length of the wing; upper discocellular obsolete or very short, middle deeply concave, lower inclined very obliquely outwards ; vein 3 from well before lower apex of cell, 4 from apex; origin of veins 6, 10 and 11 variable, 6 sometimes from upper apex of cell, sometimes a little below it, 10 always out of 7 but at varying distance from upper apex of cell, 11 free or from upper apex of cell, 12 long, terminating on apical third of the costal margin. Hind wing elongate : costa sharply straight; apex rounded ; termen strongly curved ; tornus rounded; dorsum straight, slightly convex towards base; cell long ; vein 3 from before lower apex of cell, 4 from apex; 6 and 7 stalked, more or less well beyond upper apex of cell; 8 very long, straight, running parallel to costal margin, terminating at apex. Antenna? a little less than half length of wing; club gradual, rounded at apex, slightly flattened ; palpi short, cylindrical, sparsely hairy ; eyes naked.— $ . Last segment of abdomen, after impregnation, with a corneous appendage or pouch somewhat like that of Parnassius. 453. Pareba vesta, Fabr. (Papilio) Mont. Ins. ii, 1787, p. 14; M. 8f cle N. Butt. Inch i, 1883, p. 318 ; Moore, Lep. Ind. v, 1901-1903, p. 31, pi. 387, figs. 1, 1 a-lf, larva & pupa, tf $ . c? . Upperside yellow. Fore wing: veins along the costal margin broadly and apical half of those along the terminal margin narrowly black; a broad curved mark along the discocellulars, the apex and terminal margin more or less broadly also black, the last traversed by a series o£ spots of the ground-colour. Hind wing: apical half of the veins from 1 a to 8, subterminal zigzag and. Fig. 84.—Pareba vesta. terminal slender Hues, black, the subterminal line coalescing wit
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