﻿LYC.EXID.E 
  (Oriental). 
  

  

  PLATE 
  XVII. 
  

   IIYPOCHRYSOPS. 
  IV. 
  

  

  XYL— 
  HYPOCHRYSOPS 
  EQFINUS. 
  <J. 
  Figs. 
  1, 
  2. 
  

  

  Iliiporhriisops 
  Hiijimts, 
  H. 
  Grose-Smith, 
  " 
  Novitates 
  Zoologicae," 
  Yol. 
  Y., 
  

   p. 
  104 
  (March, 
  1898). 
  

  

  Exp. 
  li 
  inches. 
  

  

  3f(tle. 
  Upperside. 
  Both 
  wings 
  dark 
  purple, 
  the 
  anterior 
  wings 
  with 
  the 
  

   apex 
  broadly, 
  and 
  the 
  costal 
  and 
  outer 
  margins 
  more 
  narrowly, 
  black. 
  Posterior 
  

   wings 
  with 
  the 
  costal 
  and 
  outer 
  margins 
  brownish-black. 
  

  

  Underside, 
  with 
  the 
  cell, 
  costal 
  margin, 
  and 
  apical 
  third 
  bright 
  rufous 
  ; 
  

   the 
  cell 
  is 
  bordered 
  on 
  the 
  upperside 
  by 
  a 
  metallic 
  blue 
  line, 
  and 
  traversed 
  

   longitudinally 
  by 
  another 
  line 
  of 
  the 
  same 
  colour, 
  bent 
  towards 
  its 
  end 
  into 
  

   the 
  form 
  of 
  an 
  irregular 
  S 
  placed 
  horizontally 
  ; 
  a 
  bar 
  at 
  the 
  end 
  of 
  the 
  cell, 
  

   several 
  spots 
  across 
  the 
  upper 
  part 
  of 
  the 
  disc, 
  and 
  a 
  submarginal 
  row 
  of 
  spots, 
  

   all 
  metallic 
  blue 
  ; 
  below 
  the 
  rufous 
  area 
  the 
  ground-colour 
  is 
  rufous-brown, 
  

   becoming 
  darker 
  below 
  the 
  cell 
  and 
  a 
  little 
  beyond 
  it. 
  Posterior 
  wings 
  bright 
  

   rufous, 
  crossed 
  by 
  six 
  metallic 
  greenish-blue 
  bands, 
  of 
  which 
  the 
  second 
  and 
  

   third 
  from 
  the 
  base 
  are 
  parallel, 
  the 
  outer 
  bands 
  being 
  more 
  or 
  less 
  broken 
  up 
  

   into 
  spots, 
  a 
  submarginal 
  row 
  of 
  similar 
  spots 
  ; 
  the 
  disc 
  is 
  traversed 
  by 
  a 
  broad, 
  

   irregular 
  band 
  of 
  black 
  markings, 
  the 
  veins 
  crossing 
  this 
  band 
  being 
  rufous. 
  

   Cilia 
  of 
  both 
  wdngs 
  black. 
  

  

  Hab. 
  Eon 
  Island 
  (W. 
  Dohcrty). 
  

  

  lu 
  the 
  Collection 
  of 
  the 
  Hon. 
  Waltov 
  EothsihilJ. 
  

  

  VOt,. 
  III., 
  OCTOBER, 
  1898. 
  

  

  