﻿LYCENID.E 
  (oriental). 
  — 
  HOLOCHILA. 
  19 
  

  

  Hal). 
  Mailu, 
  British 
  New 
  Guinea 
  (Anthony). 
  

  

  In 
  the 
  Collection 
  of 
  the 
  Hon. 
  Walter 
  Rothschild. 
  

  

  Nearest 
  to 
  H. 
  Fulgens, 
  Grose-Smith 
  ; 
  it 
  is 
  the 
  same 
  shape 
  as 
  that 
  species. 
  

  

  XXYIIL— 
  HOLOCHILA 
  SUBOYATA. 
  ^ 
  . 
  Figs. 
  11, 
  12. 
  ? 
  . 
  Fig. 
  13. 
  

  

  Holochila 
  Subovata, 
  H.Grose-Smith, 
  " 
  Novitates 
  Zoologies?," 
  Vol. 
  I., 
  p. 
  570 
  

   (July, 
  1894). 
  

  

  Exp. 
  Rather 
  more 
  than 
  1 
  inch. 
  

  

  3/alr. 
  Upperside. 
  More 
  violaceous-piu-ple 
  than 
  II. 
  Inteusa 
  and 
  //. 
  Ilias. 
  

   Anterior 
  wings 
  with 
  the 
  costal 
  margin 
  narrowly, 
  the 
  apex 
  more 
  broadly, 
  and 
  

   outer 
  margin 
  more 
  narrowly 
  bordered 
  with 
  brown-black. 
  Cilia 
  on 
  both 
  wings 
  

   white, 
  conspicuously 
  tipped 
  with 
  black 
  at 
  the 
  ends 
  of 
  the 
  veins. 
  Anterior 
  wings 
  

   broader 
  than 
  in 
  the 
  above-described 
  species, 
  and 
  slightly 
  convex 
  on 
  the 
  outer 
  

   margin. 
  Posterior 
  wings 
  narrowly 
  edged 
  with 
  black. 
  

  

  Underside 
  rather 
  brownish-white, 
  outer 
  margin 
  very 
  narrowly 
  black. 
  

   Cilia 
  white, 
  tipped 
  with 
  black 
  at 
  the 
  ends 
  of 
  the 
  veins. 
  

  

  Female 
  scarcely 
  differs 
  from 
  the 
  same 
  sex 
  of 
  //. 
  Intensa 
  and 
  //. 
  ///«.'!, 
  but 
  

   tlie 
  pale 
  middle 
  space 
  extends 
  rather 
  more 
  towards 
  the 
  base, 
  and 
  the 
  cilia 
  

   art' 
  marked 
  conspicuously 
  with 
  black 
  at 
  the 
  end 
  of 
  the 
  veins. 
  

  

  Hab. 
  Huml)oldt 
  Bay. 
  

  

  In 
  the 
  CoUeetioDs 
  of 
  the 
  Hon. 
  Walter 
  Eotlisehild 
  and 
  Mr. 
  H. 
  Grose-Smith. 
  

  

  