The forms are connected with one another by intergradations; moreover, the specific identity of 3 of the varieties (pomponius, rurik, lysithous) has been proved by breeding.

Larva on Anona , resting by day on the upperside of a leaf at the middle vein, on the lower branches and root-shoots, near Petropolis all the year round, except in June and July (middle of the dry season); black with yellow longitudinal stripes and white-yellow saddle-spot.

(14b), the white band of the forewing very broad, continued over the cell to the costal margin; f. harrisianus Swains.

), the white band of the forewing broad posteriorly, strongly narrowed anteriorly, not entering the cell, the part from the lower angle of the cell to the costal margin narrow or absent, as in the preceding form the posterior submarginal spots of the hindwing large; f. oedipus Fldr.

), hindwing with small submarginal spots, the band usually only extending to the 1. median, sometimes longer and more distal (ab.