N YMPHALIDiE . — D AN AIN^E . — ASTHIPA . 



row of submargiual spots, the inner row becoming obsolete towards the anal 

 angle. 



Body markings as in J. Kirhiji. 



Hal). Sattclberg, near Finsch Hafen, German New Guinea (Webster and 

 Cotton, 1894). 



la the Collections of the Hon. Walter Rothschild and of Mr. H. Grose Smith. 



There was a good series of this species in the Collection. The principal difference between 

 it and A. Kirbiji is the absence on the anterior wings of the hyaline spaces in the cell and between 

 the two upper median uervules, and its much blacker colour. 



VI.— ASTHIPA KIEBYI. $ . Figs. 4, 5. ? . Fig. 6. 



Axthipa Kirhiji, H. Grose Smith, " Novitates Zoologicae," I., p. 339 

 (April, 1894). 



Exp. i . 2| inches ; ? . 2| inches. 



Male. Upperside scarcely distinguishable from A. Schenk'd, Koch, but the 

 hyaline portion of the wings is less brightly suffused with yellow, and on the 

 posterior wings the hyaline spots or spaces which surround the cell are much 

 more restricted. 



The UNDERSIDE rcsembles the upperside, but is whiter, and on the posterior 

 wings the spot which lies between the costal and subcostal nervures is con- 

 siderably less elongate. 



The Female resembles the Male, but is paler, and the wings are more 

 romided. 



Head and thorax black, spotted with white ; abdomen smoky grey above, 

 whitish beneath. 



Hab. Stcphansort, German New Guinea (Webster, 1894). 



In the Collections of the Hon. Walter Rothschild and of Mr. H. Grose Smith. 

 A good series of both sexes was received. 



