﻿LYCiENIDiE 
  (oriental). 
  — 
  THYSONOTIS. 
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  above, 
  bluish-white 
  below 
  ; 
  anteniife 
  black, 
  with 
  a 
  long 
  gradually-formed 
  club, 
  

   and 
  banded 
  with 
  white 
  below 
  ; 
  thorax 
  purplish-blue, 
  with 
  a 
  greyish-white 
  tuft 
  

   behind 
  ; 
  pectus 
  black 
  ; 
  abdomen 
  black, 
  greenish-blue 
  at 
  the 
  base, 
  and 
  more 
  or 
  

   less 
  white 
  at 
  the 
  incisions 
  ; 
  white 
  beneath. 
  The 
  legs 
  are 
  damaged. 
  

   Hab. 
  New 
  Guinea 
  (No. 
  437). 
  

  

  In 
  the 
  Collection 
  of 
  Dr. 
  Staudingor. 
  

  

  A 
  large 
  species, 
  allied 
  to 
  T. 
  Wallacci, 
  Feltler, 
  and 
  T. 
  Glaucopls, 
  Grose 
  Smith, 
  to 
  which 
  it 
  

   approaches 
  very 
  closely, 
  but 
  there 
  is 
  less 
  indication 
  of 
  any 
  white 
  markings 
  above, 
  and 
  the 
  white 
  

   space 
  beneath 
  is 
  smaller. 
  

  

  YI.— 
  THYSONOTIS 
  CARISSIMA. 
  i 
  . 
  Fig. 
  0. 
  $. 
  Figs. 
  7, 
  8. 
  

  

  Exp. 
  Ij 
  to 
  1} 
  inches. 
  

  

  Male. 
  Upperside 
  lilac-blue, 
  with 
  narrow 
  black 
  borders. 
  Anterior 
  wings 
  

   with 
  a 
  large 
  sub-triangular 
  white 
  patch, 
  nuich 
  dusted 
  with 
  blue 
  along 
  the 
  

   nervures, 
  spreading 
  from 
  the 
  lower 
  and 
  outer 
  part 
  of 
  the 
  cell 
  and 
  beyond, 
  to 
  

   the 
  submedian 
  nervure. 
  Posterior 
  wings 
  with 
  a 
  slender 
  black 
  tail 
  at 
  the 
  

   extremity 
  of 
  the 
  lowest 
  median 
  nervule, 
  and 
  with 
  a 
  moderately 
  broad 
  white 
  

   oblique 
  band 
  towards 
  the 
  base, 
  dusted 
  with 
  blue 
  between 
  the 
  median 
  and 
  sub- 
  

   median 
  nervures, 
  but 
  white 
  below, 
  and 
  extending 
  over 
  the 
  whole 
  inner-marginal 
  

   area. 
  

  

  Underside. 
  Anterior 
  wings 
  white, 
  costal 
  area 
  with 
  a 
  broad 
  band, 
  greyish 
  

   above, 
  but 
  black 
  below, 
  in 
  and 
  beyond 
  the 
  upper 
  half 
  of 
  the 
  cell. 
  Fringes 
  

   white, 
  with 
  a 
  continuous 
  black 
  marginal 
  stripe 
  at 
  their 
  base, 
  within 
  which 
  are 
  

   two 
  rows 
  of 
  submarginal 
  black 
  streaks 
  between 
  the 
  white 
  nervures, 
  the 
  outer 
  

   ones 
  sub-linear, 
  but 
  the 
  inner 
  ones 
  becoming 
  broad 
  as 
  they 
  approach 
  the 
  inner 
  

   margin. 
  Posterior 
  wings 
  of 
  a 
  more 
  creamy-white, 
  the 
  upper 
  part 
  of 
  the 
  base 
  

   greenish, 
  followed 
  by 
  a 
  broad 
  oblique 
  band, 
  not 
  quite 
  extending 
  to 
  the 
  costa. 
  

   Fringes 
  whitish, 
  with 
  a 
  black 
  stripe 
  as 
  on 
  the 
  anterior 
  wings, 
  within 
  which 
  is 
  a 
  

   row 
  of 
  white 
  streaks 
  separated 
  by 
  the 
  nervures, 
  which 
  are 
  here 
  brownish-grey, 
  

   not 
  white. 
  "Within 
  these 
  is 
  a 
  broad 
  black 
  band, 
  cut 
  by 
  the 
  brown 
  nervures, 
  and 
  

   containing 
  a 
  row 
  of 
  semicircular 
  black 
  spots 
  surrounded 
  by 
  metallic-green, 
  

   shading 
  into 
  pinkish-white 
  towards 
  the 
  costa. 
  

  

  Body 
  blue 
  and 
  white 
  above, 
  mostly 
  whitish 
  beneath 
  ; 
  antennae 
  black, 
  

   banded 
  with 
  white 
  below 
  ; 
  face, 
  palpi, 
  and 
  legs 
  striped 
  with 
  black 
  and 
  white. 
  

  

  Fimalc. 
  Upperside 
  white, 
  with 
  broad 
  black 
  borders, 
  and 
  bluish-green 
  

  

  