﻿LYC-ENID^ 
  (oriental). 
  WAIGEUM. 
  35 
  

  

  II.— 
  WAIGEUM 
  SUBCiERULEU:\r. 
  $ 
  . 
  Figs. 
  4, 
  5. 
  

  

  Exp. 
  1| 
  inches. 
  

  

  Female. 
  Upperside 
  brown, 
  with 
  grey 
  fringes, 
  and 
  the 
  base 
  with 
  some 
  

   scattered 
  bhie 
  scales. 
  A 
  common 
  white 
  band 
  runs 
  from 
  above 
  the 
  upper 
  median 
  

   nervulc 
  of 
  tlio 
  anterior 
  wings, 
  and 
  curves 
  inwards 
  to 
  the 
  base 
  of 
  the 
  inner 
  

   margin 
  on 
  the 
  posterior 
  wings 
  ; 
  near 
  its 
  outer 
  edge 
  is 
  a 
  conspicuous 
  oval 
  

   discoidal 
  spot. 
  

  

  Underside 
  black, 
  the 
  hind 
  margins, 
  the 
  costa, 
  and 
  th(> 
  liase 
  of 
  the 
  inner 
  

   margin 
  of 
  the 
  anterior 
  wings 
  brown. 
  Anterior 
  wings 
  with 
  a 
  broad 
  blue 
  sub- 
  

   costal 
  band, 
  slightly 
  divided 
  by 
  the 
  nervures, 
  looped 
  downwards 
  at 
  the 
  end 
  as 
  

   far 
  as 
  the 
  lowest 
  median 
  nervulc, 
  and 
  retracted 
  through 
  the 
  middle 
  of 
  the 
  cell. 
  

   A 
  sul)inarginal 
  row 
  of 
  ol)long 
  spots, 
  excavated 
  and 
  filled 
  up 
  on 
  the 
  inner 
  side 
  

   with 
  black 
  blotches 
  ; 
  the 
  nervures 
  between 
  being 
  brown. 
  A 
  white 
  band 
  com- 
  

   mences 
  within 
  the 
  loop 
  below 
  the 
  uppermost 
  median 
  nervule, 
  and 
  extends 
  across 
  

   the 
  disc 
  to 
  the 
  hmer 
  margin, 
  where 
  it 
  is 
  broadest. 
  A 
  transverse 
  white 
  band 
  

   crosses 
  the 
  posterior 
  wings 
  ; 
  a 
  blue 
  band 
  surrounds 
  the 
  basal 
  black 
  portion, 
  and 
  

   the 
  white 
  band 
  is 
  narrowly 
  edged 
  outside 
  with 
  blue, 
  which 
  curves 
  outwards 
  just 
  

   below 
  the 
  costa. 
  The 
  outer 
  half 
  of 
  the 
  posterior 
  wings 
  is 
  black, 
  crossed 
  by 
  two 
  

   broad 
  bands 
  of 
  blue, 
  the 
  outermost 
  of 
  wliich 
  is 
  the 
  narrower, 
  and 
  is 
  split 
  up 
  

   into 
  lunules 
  gradually 
  increasing 
  in 
  size 
  to 
  the 
  anal 
  angle 
  ; 
  the 
  nervures 
  crossing 
  

   the 
  inner 
  of 
  the 
  two 
  bands 
  are 
  mostly 
  whitish. 
  

  

  Body 
  brown, 
  antenna) 
  black 
  ; 
  brown 
  below, 
  narrowly 
  ringed 
  with 
  white 
  

   above 
  ; 
  orbits 
  blue 
  in 
  front, 
  and 
  white 
  behind 
  ; 
  abdomen 
  banded 
  with 
  white 
  ; 
  

   back 
  of 
  pectus, 
  and 
  alxlomen 
  beneath, 
  white 
  in 
  the 
  middle. 
  

  

  Hab. 
  "Waigiou 
  (Von 
  Platen). 
  

  

  In 
  the 
  Collection 
  of 
  Dr. 
  Staudinger. 
  

  

  III.— 
  WAIGEUM 
  EIBBEI. 
  ^ 
  . 
  Fig. 
  6. 
  $ 
  . 
  Figs. 
  7, 
  8. 
  

  

  Pleheius 
  liihhei, 
  Rober, 
  " 
  Correspondenzblatt 
  des 
  Entomologischeu 
  Vereins, 
  

   ' 
  Iris 
  ' 
  zu 
  Dresden," 
  I., 
  p. 
  52, 
  pi. 
  iv., 
  fig. 
  2 
  (March, 
  18G(3). 
  

  

  ll'aiijeum 
  liihhei, 
  Staudinger, 
  " 
  Deutsche 
  Entomologiscbe 
  Zeitschrift: 
  ' 
  Iris 
  ' 
  

   (Dresden)," 
  YIII., 
  p. 
  157 
  (1895). 
  

  

  Exp. 
  1|— 
  If 
  inches. 
  

  

  Male. 
  Anterior 
  wings 
  with 
  the 
  costa, 
  apex 
  and 
  hind 
  margin 
  black 
  ; 
  the 
  

  

  