NYMPHALID^E.-DANAINJE, 



ASTHIPA II. AND RAVADEBA. 

 ASTHIPA. II. 



v.— ASTHIPA ItlELUSINE. i. Figs. 1, 2. 5. Fig. 3. 



Asthipa Melusine, H. Grose Smith, " Novitates Zoologicas," I., p. 586 

 (July, 1894). 



Exp. $ . 2| inches ; ? . 2f inches. 



JJalf. Upperside black with white hyaline spots ; resembles A. Kirhiji, 

 Grose Smith, but the hyaline portion of the wings is not tinged with yellow. 

 On the anterior wings the three subapical elongate hyaline spots are differently 

 arranged, being more obliquely situated ; the lowest of them is not concave on 

 its outer edge ; the interspace between the two uppermost median nervules is 

 not hj-aline as in J. Kirhiji, but there is a minute hyaline spot above the middle 

 median nervule at its junction with the discocellular nervule, which is absent 

 in some specimens, and there is no hyaline spot in the cell above the median 

 nervure. On the posterior wings the hyaline spots or spaces in and around the 

 cell are very like those in A. Kirbiji, but those between the subcostal and dis- 

 coidal nervules are outwardly concave instead of being acute. There are no 

 submarginal rows of spots. 



On the UNDERSIDE the outer row of submarginal spots on the anterior wings 

 oi A. Kirhyi is represented only by four minute spots at the apex, and on the 

 posterior wings the inner row of submarginal spots becomes obsolete between 

 the median nervules, though this feature is not constant. Both wings are 

 blacker, wider, and rounder than in A. Kirhiji, and on the anterior wings the 

 outer margin is somewhat less concave. 



The Female resembles the 3Iale, but the wings are rounder ; on the under- 

 side of the anterior wings there is a double row of submarginal spots, the outer 

 row, which does not extend beyond the submedian nervure, consisting of minute 

 spots in pairs between the veins ; on the posterior wings there is also a double 



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