NYMPHALID.i:. — NYMPHALIN.E. — DOLESCHALLIA. 



II.— DOLESCHALLIA SINIS. ? . Figs. 2, 3. 



I'^.x)). ;} inches. 



FriHiilr. Upperside brown, with more than the basal iialf of the wings 

 tawny, brightest on the anterior wings, which have also a subapical curved row 

 of five white spots. Incisions of all the wings white. 



Underside rich brown, more tawny towards the edges ; anterior wings 

 with two slaty-grey stripes in the cell, the first edged outside, and the second 

 on both sides, with a brown line ; beyond this are two more brown lines further 

 apart. At two-thirds of the length of the costa commences a common dark- 

 line, W-shaped above, where it is edged outside with dusky white, and then 

 running obliquely, straight, or only slightly undulated, to the inner margin of 

 the posterior wings above the base of the tail. The four white spots as above, 

 but partially surrounded with blackish ; below there is a fifth white dot, and 

 there is another white spot between the submedian nervure and the lowest 

 median nervule. Opposite spots two to four are three black dots marked with white 

 on a rather indistinct brown submarginal line. Posterior wings with a sub- 

 marginal line on the tawny marginal space, on the inner side of which the wing 

 is scaled with bluish white ; edged again within, near the tail, by blackish. On 

 the disk are two large eyes, the pu})il black, surmounted by a patch of bluish- 

 white scales, the iris tawny on the inside and light brown on the outside, and 

 an outer dark brown ring. Nearer the base are some light brown streaks, the 

 lowest of wdiich ends in a triangle filled up with bluish white. 



Hab. New Guinea : {type) Ceram. 



In the Collections of Messrs. Godman aud Saivin and H. Grose Smith. 



III.— DOLESCHALLIA SCIRON. i . Figs. 4, 5. ? . Fig. 6. 



])i)lcsrli(tlli(i Si-iroii, Godman and Salvin, "Annals and Magazine of Natural 

 History," ser. 6, vol. 1, p. 98 (1888). 



Exp. 3 to 3^ inches. 



3Ial<'. Anterior wings with the hind margin slightly emarginate. 



Upperside. Anterior wings rufous brown at the base, followed by a curved 

 tawny band, rounded towards the costa. Just beyond it, above the low'est sub- 

 median nervule, is a white dot ; and below it a black spot on the edge of the 

 tawny band. Apical half of the wing blackish brown, with two tawny spots 



