﻿LYC^NID^ 
  (Oriental). 
  

  

  PLATE 
  XXIII. 
  

   GENUS 
  HYPOLYaENA, 
  FELD. 
  

  

  I.— 
  HYPOLYCENA 
  ALCESTIS. 
  S. 
  Figs. 
  1, 
  2. 
  ?. 
  Fig. 
  3. 
  

  

  ThecJa 
  Ahrstix, 
  H. 
  Grose-Smith, 
  "Entomologists' 
  Monthly 
  Magazine," 
  

   No. 
  301, 
  p. 
  300 
  (.Tune, 
  1889). 
  

  

  Exp. 
  li 
  inches. 
  

  

  Male. 
  UrPERsiDE 
  pale 
  silvery-hlue. 
  Anterior 
  wings, 
  costal 
  margin, 
  and 
  

   apex 
  rather 
  broadly, 
  and 
  outer 
  margin 
  rather 
  narrowly 
  greyish-black. 
  Posterior 
  

   wings 
  with 
  a 
  l)road 
  submarginal 
  band 
  of 
  greyish-l)lack 
  spots, 
  crowned 
  with 
  

   whitish 
  lunular 
  markings, 
  above 
  which 
  is 
  a 
  row 
  of 
  indistinct 
  grey 
  markings, 
  

   the 
  middle 
  spot 
  nearly 
  obsolete 
  ; 
  below 
  the 
  spots 
  is 
  a 
  row 
  of 
  narrow 
  whitish 
  

   lines, 
  outer 
  margin 
  greyish 
  black, 
  two 
  tails 
  tipped 
  with 
  white. 
  

  

  Underside 
  bluish-grey. 
  Anterior 
  wings 
  with 
  a 
  submarginal 
  row 
  of 
  narrow 
  

   pale 
  grey 
  lunules 
  crowned 
  with 
  dark 
  grey, 
  inside 
  which 
  is 
  a 
  row 
  of 
  dark 
  grey 
  

   markings, 
  obsolete 
  towards 
  the 
  costa 
  ; 
  a 
  pale 
  grey 
  line 
  edged 
  internally 
  by 
  dark 
  

   grey 
  at 
  the 
  end 
  of 
  the 
  cell. 
  Posterior 
  wdngs 
  with 
  a 
  row 
  of 
  black 
  spots 
  crowned 
  

   with 
  white 
  and 
  dark 
  grey 
  markings, 
  as 
  on 
  the 
  upperside, 
  but 
  the 
  black 
  spot 
  

   before 
  the 
  anal 
  angle 
  is 
  obsolete 
  ; 
  above 
  these 
  is 
  an 
  interrupted 
  pale 
  silvery-blue 
  

   narrow 
  band, 
  inside 
  which 
  is 
  a 
  row 
  of 
  confluent 
  red 
  spots 
  edged 
  on 
  each 
  side 
  

   by 
  black, 
  and 
  pale 
  grey 
  beyond, 
  the 
  fourth 
  red 
  spot 
  the 
  largest, 
  extending 
  out- 
  

   wardly 
  to 
  the 
  row 
  of 
  black 
  spots 
  ; 
  the 
  red 
  spot 
  above 
  the 
  obsolete 
  black 
  spot 
  is 
  

   sagittate, 
  a 
  black 
  line, 
  edged 
  by 
  grey 
  on 
  both 
  sides 
  above 
  the 
  anal 
  angle, 
  a 
  

   narrow 
  dark 
  line, 
  edged 
  internally 
  by 
  pale 
  grey 
  at 
  the 
  end 
  of 
  the 
  cell. 
  

  

  Femak 
  resembles 
  the 
  male, 
  but 
  is 
  larger 
  and 
  more 
  grey. 
  

  

  Hab. 
  Guadalcanar 
  and 
  Tulagi, 
  Solomon 
  Islands 
  (Woodford). 
  

  

  In 
  Mr. 
  Grose-Smith's 
  Collection. 
  

  

  VOL. 
  III., 
  APKIL, 
  1900 
  L 
  L 
  

  

  