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the seventh is smaller. Across the disc is a large violaceous tawny patch nearly 

 straight on its inner and curved outwardly on its outer margin. 



Underside fuliginous brown. Anterior wings, with the apical third nuicli 

 paler ; an ill-defined brownish white space about the middle of the costa, two 

 violaceous white patches on the disc beyond the middle situate on each side of the 

 lowest median nervule, beyond which, on each side of the submarginal fuscoiis line, 

 are two brownish white streaks ; a few white scales near the base outside the costa, 

 under which, along the top of the cell, are two spots and two patches of white scales. 

 On the posterior wings the fulvous space is pale tawny white, the three upper and 

 two lowest spots much larger and surrounded with a fulvous zone; the two middle 

 spots are absent. 



Female. — Koth wings more fuliginous brown; anterior wings with abroad oblique 

 baud of white from the nuddle of the costa to a little before the lowest median nervule, 

 divided by the brown veins ; the outer edge of the band very in-egular and merging 

 into the fuliginous apical area, which is paler than the base ; a dusky brown patch 

 along the inner margin, which extends upwards nearly to the lowest median nervule ; 

 an indistinct row of pale whitish lines extends from the middle to the outer angle 

 inside the submarginal dark line. Posterior wings resemble the male, but the fulvous 

 area is jjaler ; there is no discal violaceous or white patch, and the middle spots are 

 not obsolete, as in the male, but are smaller than those above and below them, though 

 not centred with a white dot. 



Underside: anterior wings with the white baud as above, in other re.spects 

 resembling the Trude. Posterior wings also resemble the male, but the middle spots 

 are represented. 



Expanse of wings : male, 3] inches ; female, Si. 



Very close to H. pandarus Linn, and //. tydea Felder, and intermediate between 

 them and H. dsois Hew. I have had some hesitation in describing this as a species 

 in a genus in which both the spots and colom'ing are so inconstant ; but a long sei'ies 

 from Humboldt Bay, in which there is little variation in either sex, induces me to 

 consider it sufficiently distinct either as a species or subspecies. 1 am aware that 

 this species is in many collections under the name of H. deois. 



104. Mynes geoflFroyi Guerin. 

 This is the typical form, with the basal and middle portions of the underside of 

 the posterior wings of both sexes black. In some of the male specimens the black 

 border on the upperside of the posterior wings is very much broader than in others. 

 A considerable series of both sexes is in the collection. 



105. Mynes semperi Staudinger. 

 I have followed Dr. Staudinger in allocating this name to the form in which the 

 underside of the posterior wings of both sexes is centred with white, shading into 

 pale yellow in the cell, beneath it towards the anal angle, and to the abdominal 

 margin, though I consider it doubtful whether it is a distinct species. The specimens 

 approach very closely to Mr. Semper's figures of Mynes gv-crini Wallace, Nos. 10, 11, 

 and 12 on PL IX. of the Jau-nial iles Museum Godeffroy; but on the upperside 

 the subapical white spots on the anterior wings are very indistinct, and the marginal 

 black band on the posterior wings continues broadly and uninterruptedly to the anal 

 angle, being margined with grey more narrowly on its inner side. On the underside 

 the basal red streak on the costa of the posterior wings is uniformly smaller, and the 



