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  LYC^NID^ 
  (oriental). 
  — 
  THYSONOTIS. 
  

  

  X.— 
  THYSONOTIS 
  PLATENI. 
  s 
  . 
  Figs. 
  5, 
  6. 
  

  

  Exp. 
  If 
  inches. 
  

  

  Idah. 
  TJppERSiDE 
  violet-blue, 
  with 
  moderately 
  narrow 
  black 
  borders 
  and 
  

   black 
  cilia, 
  except 
  at 
  the 
  apex 
  of 
  the 
  anterior 
  wings, 
  where 
  they 
  are 
  white. 
  

   Posterior 
  wings 
  with 
  the 
  white 
  band 
  of 
  the 
  underside 
  showing 
  faintly 
  through 
  ; 
  

   and 
  the 
  basal 
  half 
  of 
  the 
  inner 
  mara-in 
  white. 
  

  

  Underside 
  black, 
  with 
  a 
  broad 
  white 
  bar 
  running 
  from 
  the 
  inner 
  margin 
  of 
  

   the 
  posterior 
  wings 
  obliquely 
  to 
  above 
  the 
  second 
  discoidal 
  nervule 
  of 
  the 
  

   anterior 
  wings. 
  Anterior 
  wings 
  with 
  a 
  broad 
  blue 
  band 
  running 
  from 
  the 
  base 
  

   for 
  three-quarters 
  of 
  the 
  length 
  over 
  the 
  upper 
  half 
  of 
  the 
  cell 
  and 
  beyond 
  it. 
  

   The 
  white 
  baud 
  is 
  excavated 
  on 
  its 
  outer 
  edge 
  below 
  ; 
  and 
  indented 
  on 
  its 
  

   upper 
  edge, 
  before 
  its 
  extremity. 
  Posterior 
  wings 
  with 
  an 
  oblique 
  blue 
  bar 
  

   over 
  the 
  black 
  basal 
  part 
  of 
  the 
  wing 
  ; 
  and 
  the 
  broad 
  black 
  border 
  with 
  a 
  row 
  of 
  

   six 
  conical 
  blue 
  spots, 
  commencing 
  at 
  the 
  anal 
  angle, 
  containing 
  large 
  black 
  

   spots 
  ; 
  towards 
  the 
  aj^ex 
  is 
  a 
  trace 
  of 
  another 
  blue 
  spot, 
  and 
  outside 
  them 
  is 
  a 
  

   row 
  of 
  narrow 
  white 
  streaks. 
  Cilia 
  dark 
  grey, 
  whitish 
  on 
  the 
  upper 
  half 
  of 
  the 
  

   anterior 
  wings. 
  

  

  Body 
  black, 
  bluish-white 
  beneath, 
  face 
  with 
  a 
  rather 
  broad 
  blue 
  stripe 
  

   within 
  each 
  eye, 
  thorax 
  clothed 
  with 
  bluish 
  hair, 
  abdomen 
  with 
  bluish-white 
  

   incisions. 
  

  

  Hab. 
  Waigiou 
  (Von 
  Platen). 
  

  

  In 
  the 
  CoUectiou 
  of 
  Dr. 
  Staudinger. 
  

   Allied 
  to 
  T. 
  Ctdius, 
  Feld. 
  

  

  XL— 
  THYSONOTIS 
  HAMILCAR. 
  i 
  . 
  Fig. 
  7. 
  s 
  • 
  Fig. 
  8. 
  

  

  Thysonotis 
  Tlamilcar, 
  H. 
  Grose 
  Smith, 
  "Annals 
  and 
  Magazine 
  of 
  Natural 
  

   History," 
  ser. 
  6, 
  vol. 
  14, 
  p. 
  25 
  (July, 
  1894). 
  

  

  Exp. 
  lf-1;^ 
  inches. 
  

  

  j\Ialc. 
  Upperside 
  lilac-blue, 
  with 
  narrow 
  black 
  borders 
  and 
  fringes 
  ; 
  the 
  

   white 
  band 
  of 
  the 
  underside 
  indistinctly 
  showing 
  through, 
  especially 
  on 
  the 
  

   posterior 
  wings, 
  which 
  have 
  a 
  white 
  band 
  on 
  the 
  outer 
  half 
  of 
  the 
  costa, 
  and 
  a 
  

   slender 
  tail 
  at 
  the 
  end 
  of 
  the 
  lowest 
  median 
  nervule. 
  

  

  Underside. 
  Anterior 
  wings 
  white, 
  with 
  the 
  costa 
  and 
  hind 
  margin 
  rather 
  

   broadly 
  black, 
  most 
  broadly 
  towards 
  the 
  hinder 
  angle, 
  where 
  it 
  is 
  intersected 
  by 
  

   an 
  obsolete 
  whitish 
  line. 
  Posterior 
  wings 
  white, 
  with 
  a 
  broad 
  oblique 
  black 
  

   liand 
  running 
  from 
  the 
  base 
  of 
  the 
  inner 
  margin 
  to 
  below 
  the 
  subcostal 
  nervure 
  ; 
  

  

  