Upper Side. Antennæ brown. Thorax, abdomen, and wings dark brown; a row of ash-coloured crescents cross the latter from the middle of the posterior to the anterior edges, uniting with a bar of the same colour, which crosses the posterior wings, meeting below the abdomen: another row of ash-coloured marks, like beards of arrows, are placed between the above-mentioned row and the external edges, which are bordered with some faint lightish marks. Posterior wings with an additional row of light arrow beards running along the external edges, which are also bordered with faint lightish marks like the anterior.
Under Side. Palpi white. Breast and legs light clay-coloured. Wings paler than on the upper side, being greyish brown. The light-coloured bar, crossing the wings and meeting below the abdomen, is very conspicuous on this side. The markings are much the same as on the upper. Margins of the wings dentated.
VANESSA AMESTRIS.
Plate [XX]. fig. 3, 4.
Order: Lepidoptera. Section: Diurna. Family: Nymphalidæ, Swains.
Genus. Vanessa, Fabr. Latr. God. Hamadryades, Hübn. Papilio (Nymph. Phal.), Drury.
Vanessa Amestris. Alis dentatis, anticis falcatis posticis rotundatis; omnibus suprà fuscis ad extimum fasciis tribus macularibus transversis, intermediâ ferrugineâ, (ad apicem maculis duabus albis) cæteris cœrulescentibus subtus marmoratis. (Expans. Alar. 2 unc. 6 lin.)
Syn. Papilio (N. P.) Amestris, Drury, App. vol. 3.
Papilio (N.) Amestris, Fabr. Ent. Syst. III. 1. p. 116. 360.
Papilio (N.) Zingha, Fabr. loc. cit. No. 358.