NYMPHALID.E. — N^'^rPHALIN.E. — TERINOS. 



Exp. 2f inches. 



Female. Upperside. Anterior wings dark brown, witli a broad submarginal 

 band, buff, crossed by tawny nervures in the apical region, I)ut becoming 

 narrower, and shading into brown from above the middle of the hind margin to 

 the hinder angle ; there arc also two patches of rich purplish-blue scaling above 

 the subcostal nervure, one at the end of the cell, and the other at about three- 

 lifths of the length of the wdng, both slightly continued below the subcostal. 

 Posterior wings dark brovra, shading into reddish-brown between the cell and 

 the inner margin, and into buff between the outer and anal angles ; towards the 

 apex they also incline to grey. 



Underside reddish-grey, with rather indistinct and irregular greenish-grey 

 lines ; incisions marked with white ; anterior wings whitish before the apex, 

 the blotch continued to the hinder angle by two broad pale stripes, the outer- 

 most with a slight purplish tinge ; hind wings with a row of brown spots, not 

 ocellated, between the third and fourth zigzag lines, counting from the margin ; 

 the two outer lines are marginal and submarginal, whiter than the others, and 

 the marginal line expands into a broad stripe between the outer and anal 

 angles. 



Body dark brown above, buff beneath, tarsi reddish. 



Hab. Humboldt Bay, New Guinea; taken Sept.-Oct., 1893 (Doherty). 



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

 A tine series of both sexes of this beautiful insect was comprised in Mr. Doherty's Collec- 

 tion from Humboldt Bay. 



