﻿LYCBNID^ 
  (oriental). 
  — 
  HOLOCHILA. 
  

  

  Underside 
  brownish-white, 
  both 
  wings 
  with 
  the 
  discs 
  crossed 
  by 
  a 
  narrow 
  

   grey 
  line 
  before 
  the 
  middle, 
  between 
  which 
  and 
  the 
  outer 
  margin 
  is 
  situate 
  a 
  

   row 
  of 
  narrow 
  grey 
  lunules 
  between 
  the 
  veins, 
  each 
  luuule 
  with 
  a 
  grey 
  dot 
  

   below 
  it 
  on 
  the 
  outer 
  margin. 
  

  

  Female. 
  Like 
  the 
  male, 
  but 
  the 
  costal 
  and 
  outer 
  margins 
  are 
  very 
  broadly 
  

   dark 
  grey. 
  

  

  In 
  both 
  sexes 
  the 
  outline 
  of 
  the 
  posterior 
  wings 
  between 
  the 
  median 
  

   nervules 
  is 
  squarer 
  than 
  in 
  any 
  of 
  the 
  other 
  described 
  species. 
  

  

  Hab. 
  Humboldt 
  Bay, 
  Dutch 
  New 
  Guinea 
  (Sept.-Oct., 
  1892), 
  (Doherty). 
  

  

  Four 
  males 
  and 
  three 
  females 
  received. 
  In 
  the 
  Collections 
  of 
  the 
  Hon. 
  W. 
  Eothschild 
  and 
  

   Mr. 
  H. 
  Grose-Smith. 
  

  

  III.— 
  HOLOCHILA 
  SILICEA. 
  g 
  . 
  Figs. 
  6, 
  7. 
  9 
  . 
  Fig. 
  8. 
  

  

  Holochila 
  Silicca, 
  H. 
  Grose-Smith, 
  " 
  Novitates 
  Zoologicae," 
  I., 
  p. 
  580 
  

   (July, 
  1894). 
  

  

  Exp. 
  If 
  inches. 
  

  

  Male. 
  Upperside 
  dull 
  slate-colour, 
  very 
  slightly 
  tinged 
  with 
  bluish-green 
  

   in 
  certain 
  lights 
  ; 
  rather 
  less 
  opaque 
  than 
  H. 
  xihsimili.'i, 
  Felder. 
  

  

  Underside 
  greyish-white. 
  Anterior 
  wings 
  with 
  a 
  grey 
  streak 
  at 
  the 
  end 
  

   of 
  the 
  cell, 
  and 
  two 
  rows 
  of 
  grey 
  lines 
  across 
  the 
  disc, 
  the 
  inner 
  row 
  curving 
  

   inwardly 
  at 
  its 
  upper 
  end, 
  the 
  outer 
  row 
  being 
  submargiual 
  and 
  following 
  the 
  

   contour 
  of 
  the 
  outer 
  margin. 
  Posterior 
  wings 
  with 
  two 
  rows 
  of 
  grey 
  markings 
  

   across 
  the 
  disc, 
  the 
  outer 
  row 
  being 
  lunulate 
  ; 
  two 
  vertical 
  lines 
  and 
  a 
  round 
  

   s])ot 
  below 
  the 
  costal 
  nervure 
  at 
  equal 
  distances 
  ; 
  two 
  similar 
  lines, 
  one 
  across 
  

   the 
  middle, 
  the 
  other 
  at 
  the 
  end 
  of 
  the 
  cell 
  with 
  two 
  spots 
  on 
  either 
  side 
  of 
  

   the 
  former, 
  a 
  row 
  of 
  three 
  spots 
  between 
  the 
  veins 
  below 
  the 
  median 
  nervure, 
  

   and 
  a 
  row 
  of 
  spots 
  between 
  the 
  veins 
  on 
  the 
  margin. 
  

  

  Female. 
  Upperside 
  darker 
  than 
  the 
  male 
  but 
  paler 
  than 
  the 
  female 
  of 
  

   H. 
  Absimilis, 
  with 
  a 
  dusky 
  bluish-grey 
  patch 
  in 
  the 
  middle 
  of 
  the 
  anterior 
  wings, 
  

   and 
  a 
  very 
  slight 
  indication 
  of 
  a 
  pale 
  patch 
  between 
  the 
  subcostal 
  nervures 
  on 
  

   the 
  posterior 
  wings 
  towards 
  the 
  apex. 
  Underside 
  as 
  in 
  the 
  male. 
  

  

  Hab. 
  Biak 
  (Doherty). 
  

  

  In 
  the 
  Collections 
  of 
  Mr. 
  H. 
  G-rose-Smith 
  and 
  the 
  Hon. 
  W. 
  Eothschild. 
  

   Two 
  males 
  and 
  three 
  females 
  were 
  received. 
  

  

  