NYMPHALID.E.-MOEPHIX.E, 



TEXARIS. I. 



I.— TEXAPJS BAEBATA. $ . Figs. 1, 2. 



Tenaris Barhata, Kirby, " Annals and Magazine of Natm-al History," ser. 0, 

 vol. 4, p. 161 (August 1889). 



Exp. 3f inches. 



Male. Upperside pure white. Anterior wings with the inner margin 

 conyex beyond the base, the costa and apex evenly edged with black al)Ove the 

 subcostal nervure, invading the upper part of the cell, and extending below the 

 apex as far as the first discocellular nervule. Posterior wings narrowly dusted 

 with blackish at the tip as far as the second subcostal ner\Tile, and again from 

 the anal angle half-way along the inner margin, the upper ocellus showing 

 indistinctly through, but the black, blue-dusted lower ocellus, with its white pupil 

 well marked, though the outer rings are less distinct; below the base of the 

 median nervure is a large brush of reddish-brown hair, and the hair between 

 the median and first submedian nervures is yellow for a third of the length of 

 the wing, and white beyond ; the hair between the first and second suIj- 

 median nervures, parallel to the dusky stripe on the inner margin, is also reddish- 

 brown. 



rxDERSiDE. Anterior wings as above. Posterior wings with the whole of 

 the base from the costa to the inner margin yellow, slightly interrupted at the 

 base of the cell ; ocelli of moderate size, black, with inner crescents of blue 

 dusting, and white pupils ; the concentric rings are yellow and bro'WTi ; the 

 upper ocellus is so close to the tip of the wing that the costa cuts off half the 

 upper edge of the outer brown ring ; the lower ocellus is placed near but well 

 within the hind margin. 



Head, legs, pectus, and front of thorax above dark brown ; thorax grey, with 

 a dusky median stripe, including a short black one in front ; head behind the 

 antennae, palpi, and abdomen yellow ; palpi blackish on the sides above. 



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