NYMPHALID^:. — NYMPHALIN^E. THALEUOPIS. 



II.— THALEROPIS KILU8A. i . Fic.;^. 8, 4. 



ThaJrropix l\ihis((, H. Grose Smith, "Annals and Magazine of Natural 

 History," sew (i, vol. 7, p. 125 (January, 1891). 



Exp. If inches. 



" Male. Upperside. Anterior wings dark I)rown, witli tin- l)aso, a s])ot 

 near the end of the cell, an obhque spot beyond tlie cell, another snialkr Itelow 

 it and nearer the margin between the upper and middle median nervules, and a 

 transverse space extending over the disk from the middle median nervule to the 

 inner margin about its middle, interrupted in the middle below the cell, liglit 

 brown. 



" Posterior wings elongate to the anal angle, which is acuminate, light 

 brown, with a broad dark brown irregular band on the costal margin extending 

 nearly to the apex, paler in the middle on the margin ; the apex, costal nervure, 

 and subcostal nervules tipped with dark brown, and a submarginal row of five 

 dark brown lines (the two uppermost macular) between the veins from the dis- 

 coidal nervule to near the anal angle. 



" Underside. Anterior wings black at the base, gradually becoming paler 

 to the outer margin, where they are pinkish-brown ; the spots as above, but 

 paler, the spots beyond the cell being pinkish-brown, and the light brown 

 discal space being more restricted below the cell towards the base ; an indistinct 

 submarginal row of dark spots following the outer margin. 



" Posterior wings pinkish-brown, darker from the base to the middle, the 

 outer edge of this space being fairly well defined and angulated outwardly on 

 the first and third median nervules. 



" Nearest to T. Cleochares, Hew. The shape of the anterior wings resembles 

 r. Ionia, Eversm., but is more sharply scalloped on the outer margin of anterior 

 wings, and the posterior wings are more elongate and acuminate at the anal 

 angle than in either of the two last-named species." (H. G. S., he, cit.) 



The Figures on the Plate are not quite correct in this respect, the posterior 

 wings being represented as too round and not sufficiently acuminate at the anal 

 angle. 



Hab. North-west Madagascar (Last). 



In the Collection of Henley Grose Smith. 



