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P. Sinope and P. sinoria by the curved patch of four increashig oval white spots 

 just beyond the middle of the primaries ; these spots are separated only by the 

 black veins, as in the Moduza ; the general colour of the insect is darker than in the 

 known species, being the same as in the Moduza, the external border is also blacker, 

 and the discal bands of secondaries are less curved and of moi'e equal width, the 

 streak limiting the basal area in these wings is also replaced by two approximated 

 angulated black stripes, which are much nearer to the inner discal band than the 

 streak in the other species, so that the disc is in reality crossed by three equidistant 

 blackish bands : in addition to corresponding differences on the under surface, the 

 extei-nal border is tinted with pearly-whitish, the sub-marginal and marginal lines 

 are blacker ; the basal half of the wing is bounded by a black line, corresponding 

 with the outer stripe of the central band on the upper surface ; the abdominal area 

 is also more broadly greenish than in P. Sinope and P. sinoria : expanse of wings 

 54 mm. 



Island o£ Nias. 



5. Hypolimnas antUope, Cramer. 



Olive-brown, the basal half of the wings suffused with darker rufous-brown ; 

 this colour on the primaries ends abruptly in an oblique line just beyond the cell ; a 

 large bifid, sub-apical, white spot, being the commencement of a series of discal 

 spots parallel to the outer margin, the others are, however, all small, six on the 

 primaries, and five on the secondaries ; external border narrowly blackish, and 

 traversed by two series of more or less lunate white spots ; body dark olive-brown ; 

 under surface more olivaceous than above, not at all rufous ; all the white spots 

 larger, tlie discal sei'ies of secondaries consisting of ten spots, the first of which is 

 larger than the others, and cream-coloured, as also is the large sub-apical spot on 

 the primaries ; the spots on the external border more sharply cut, and of a purer 

 white than above ; primaries with the costa to the end of the cell rather broadly 

 black, interrupted within the cell by five white spots : body brown, palpi and front 

 legs blackish, fringed with white : expanse of wings, 98 mm. 



" Paso, Amboina ; by a stream, 11th May, 1882 " {R. 0. Forbes). 



From two tine examples in the Museum collection, there were 

 others in Mr. Forbes' papers : the species has hitherto been incorrectly 

 identified with a much smaller insect belonging to a different section 

 of the genus: H. antilope belongs to the H. jacintha group, and, 

 doubtless, has a blue-blotched male ; Mr. Wallace's male evidently 

 belongs to the same section of the genus with his ''^ Diadema anomala" 

 which follows H. antilope in his " Notes on Eastern Butterflies," Trans. 

 Eut. 8oc., 1869, pp. 284, 285. The types of Wallace's species passed, 

 with his collection, into Mr. Hewitson's hands ; but, I am unable to 

 recognise his male of H. antilope ; no typical female exists in the col- 

 lection, and the only female from Amboina is what I believe to be a 

 pale variety of H. -porphyria, of Cramer, it certainly belongs to that 

 section of the freuus. 



