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62 WHITE ADMIRAL.
large white spots, rather outside the centre, the middle one
being very much smaller than the others. There are two
other small white spots near the corner, forming, as it were,
the right boundary of the white bar, the rest of it being filled
up Avith the general colour of the wing; between the bar and
the base of the wing is another dull white mark. There are
also one or two small faint white oblong spots near the middle
of the outer margin of the fore wings, and they are fringed
with white.
The hind wings have the same white bar continued through
their centre, narrowing to the end: they are also fringed with
white. There is an obscure red spot, within which are two
black dots near the inner lower corner. Inside the fringe is a
band of a darker colour than the ground of the wings, and
within this two others of interrupted spots of the same, and
two others are obscurely visible within the white bar.
Underneath, the general ground colour of the fore wings is
fulvous red, and all the white marks from above shew through,
and the dull ones are all clear. The centre of the wings about
the lower part of the bar has a tinge of ash-colour and faint
bronze. The fringe is alternate brown and white, the latter
being intersected by the former being waved. This is succeeded
by another curved line, leaving three small crescents of white,
and a larger one again within the uppermost of the three;
these two last being the ones on the upper side that shew
through; after this the line fades nearly away in the fulvous
ground colour of the wings. There are four short dark waved
cross lines, two on each side of the white spot between the bar
and the base.
The hind wings have two rows of blackish brown dots
between the bar and the margin, then one or two indistinctly
defined white marks, then a row of crescent-shaped white marks,
very faintly discernible towards the outer corner, and then the
white margin, indented with the fulvous brown of the wings,
shewing through between it and the last-named row of white
crescents in the shape of a waved line.
The caterpillar is green, with the head and legs reddish.