NYMPHALID^.-MOEPHINiE. 



TENARIS. II. 



IV.— TENAEIS EOTHSCHILDI. i . Figs. 1,2. s • Fig. 3. 



Tenaris Bothschildl, Henley Grose Smith, in " Novitates Zoologies," I., 

 p. 359 (April 1894). 



Exp. $ 3-| inches ; ? 3|- inches. 



" Male. Uppeeside. Both wings white, with the costa, apex, and inner 

 margin of the anterior wings brownish-grey, the two latter rather broadly. 

 Posterior wings with the outer margin narrowly, rather more broadly towards 

 the apex, brownish-grey ; between the two lowest median nervules is a black 

 ocellus having a white pupil, partially surrounded with bluish-grey scales. 



" Underside. Anterior wings as above, except that the inner margin is not 

 dusky. Posterior wings with the base and costal margin rather broadly, and 

 outer margin towards the apex narrowly, brownish-grey. Across the disc is a 

 curved row of five ocelli, each with a white pupil, and pale blue scales round, 

 placed in pale fulvous zones, which are again surroimded by narrow fuscous 

 rings ; the fulvous zones surrounding the two upper and the two lower ocelli 

 respectively being confluent ; the fulvous zone round the middle ocellus is 

 distinct ; of the ocelli the uppermost and lowest are the largest and equal in 

 size ; the three others are much smaller and are connected by the fuscous rings. 



" Female. Upperside. Anterior wings resemble the male, but the inner 

 marginal dusky band is more dilated. The posterior wings are margined very 

 broadly with fuliginous gi'eyish-brown, in which is situate the black ocellus 

 (with white pupil as in the male), with an indistinct pale greyish ring partly 

 surrounding it. 



" Underside as above ; but the ocelli on the posterior wings are larger, and 

 the fuliginous gi-eyish -brown area is irrorated with grey scales." 



Hab. Humboldt Bay (Doherty). 



" A fine pair of this remarkable insect is in the Collection of the Hon. Walter Rothschild. 

 In the arrangement of the spots on the underside of the posterior wings, it resembles a variety of 



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