NYMPHALIDaE.-NYMPHALIN^. 



D0LE8CHALLIA. I. 



I.— DOLESCHALLIA RICKARDI. i. Fig. 1. 



Doleschallia Piidardi, H. Grose Smith, " Annals and Magazine of Natural 

 History," ser. 6, vol. 6, p. 171 (1890). 



Doleschallia Ffeili, Honrath, " Berliner Entomologische Zeitschrift," xxxvi. 

 p. 438, pi. XV. f. 7 (1892). 



Exp. 2-| inches. 



"Male. Upperside. Both wings dark brown, rather paler towards the 

 base. Anterior wings crossed beyond the cell by an oblique band of three 

 rather broad blue spots, irrorated with white, extending from the costa to the 

 upper median nervule ; across the disk is a large blue patch, divided by the 

 median nervules, extending at the upper end into the end of the cell, and at 

 the lower end as far as the submedian nervure, where it is narrower than at the 

 top and slightly curves outwardly ; a curved row of five subapical white spots. 



" Underside. Both wings dusky brown, paler towards the apex and outer 

 margin of anterior wings [and towards the outer margin of posterior wings] 

 and crossed by an irregular black line, which, on anterior wings, is narrowly 

 margined externally from the costa to the upper median nervule by bluish white, 

 thence internally to the middle of posterior wings by dusky white ; outside the 

 black line on both wings is a rather broad, ill-defined, darker brown band ; on 

 anterior wings three irregular bright brown lines cross the cell beyond the 

 middle, the line nearest the base bordered externally and irregularly with bluish 

 white ; the five white subapical spots as above, beneath which are three nearly 

 obsolete ocelli. Posterior wings beyond the middle with two conspicuous and 

 several other nearly obsolete ocelli ; a bluish-white spot on the cell on the 

 median nervure edged externally with black, and a less conspicuous one below 

 the costal nervure. A reddish shade on the inner side of the short tail at the 

 anal angle." (H. G. S., loc. cit.) 



Hab. New Ireland (Eev. E. H. Eickard). 



In the Collections of Henley Grose Smith and Herr Honrath. 



Allied to D. Dascon and D. Dascijliif, Godm. and Salv. 



HeiT Honrath's figure represents a worn specimen from the same locality. 



VOL. II., JANUARY, 1893. L 



