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and grachiallv liecoming smaller. Posterior wings white, with large yellow patches 

 between the veins, an irregular ill-defined dusky space at the base covering the inner 

 part of the cell and part of the interspaces above and below it ; abroad outer-marginal 

 grey band, in which a little before the margin are situate a row of six diamond- 

 shaped yellow spots between the veins. Both wings on the underside are sericeous. 



Expanse of wings: If inch. 



This species is not close to any described species ; it somewhat approaches 

 D. niffidius Misk. The male, which is in ^Ir. Eothschild's collection, is not now 

 before me, but writing from recollection it scarcely diflVrs from the female, except 

 that on the upi)erside of the ]iosterior wings the dark marginal band is narrowei'. 



T). Asthipa melusine sp. nov. 



M.u.E. — Uppei'side: black with white hyaline .spots; resembles A. Icirhyi 

 Grose Smith, but the hyaline portion of the wings is not tinged with yellow. On 

 the anterior wings the three elongate hyaline spots which cross the disc beyond 

 the cell towards the apex are differently arranged, being more obliquely situated ; 

 the lowest of them is not concave on its outer edge; the interspace between the 

 two ujipermost median nervules is not hyaline as in A. kirhyi, but there is a 

 minute hyaline s\X)t above the middle median nervule at its junction with the 

 disco-cellular nervule, which is absent in .some .specimens, and there is no hyaline 

 spot in the cell above the median nervure. On the posterior wings the hyaline 

 spots or spaces in and around the cell are very like those in A. kirhi/i, but those 

 between the subcostal and discoidal nervules are outwardly concave instead of being 

 acute. There are no submarginal rows of spots. 



On the underside the outer row of submarginal spots in the anterior wings 

 of A. kirhyi is represented only by four minute spots at the apex, and on the 

 posterior wings the inner row of submarginal spots becomes obsolete between the 

 median nervules, though this feature is not constant. Both wings are blacker, 

 wider, and rounder than in A. kirhyi, and on the anterior wings the outer margin 

 is less concave. 



'Vhe female re.sembles the nude, Init the wings are rounder; on the underside 

 of the anterior wings there is a doable row of submarginal sjiots, the outer row, which 

 does not extend bej'ond the submediau nervure, consisting of minute spots in 

 j)airs between the veins; on tiie posterior wings there is also a double row of 

 submarginal sjiots, the inner row becoming olisolete towards the anal angle. 



Expanse of wings : male, 2g inches; feraide, 2f inches. 



There was a good series of this species in the collection. The principal difference 

 between it and A. kirhyi is the ab.sence of the hvaline spaces in the cell and between 

 the two upper median nervules, and its much blacker colour. 



4. Mynes websteri sp. iio\. 

 Malk. — i'ppei'side : anterior wings greenish white, with the ajiical third black, 

 the inner edge of the black area, which is irregular, extending oblii|iiely from the 

 costa at two-thirds from the base to the outer angle; the black markings on the 

 underside show indistinctly through the white area. Posterior wings with the space 

 above the costal nervure to the costal margin greyish black, and a rather narrow 

 sinuate black band along the outer margin, inside which is a series of black bars, those 

 towards the apex the broadest, thence to the anal angle narrower and becoming 

 obsolete, the space between the bars and the marginal band occupied liy a sinuate 



