NYMPHALID^. NYMPHALIN.E. DOLESCHALLIA. 



placed obliquely beyond the end of the cell, and four small subapical white 

 spots. Posterior wings rufous brown, darker towards margins, with two 

 obsolete black spots on the disk, representing the eyes of the underside, and a 

 blackish submarginal band. 



Underside rufous brown, with a common blackish line, shaped as in 

 D. Sinis, mostly edged with whitish, which expands into a wide macular band 

 outside the W-shaped part. Anterior wings with two white bands in the cell, 

 the innermost edged outside, and the outermost on both sides with lilack ; 

 below the cell and between them is another white streak ; outside them is a 

 dark grey streak bordered on both sides with black, and followed by whitish 

 scaling; on the disk is a series of more or less distinct white spots and eyes, with 

 white pupils, black iris, and whitish rings ; there is also a siibmarginal brown 

 line, partly bordered above and below with whitish ; on the hind margin is a 

 rich tawny band. Posterior wings greenish on the disk, and marked with two 

 large eyes, with a black pupil surmounted by a white dot, a light brown iris, 

 shading into rufous within, and an inner yellow and outer brown ring. A 

 brown submarginal line, within which, and also along the lower part of the 

 inner marginal region, the wing is dusted with whitish. Towards the base are 

 two conspicuous triangular white spots, partly surrounded with black, and 

 between them are two parallel brown lines. 



Female. Upperside. Anterior wings scarcely emarginate, rufous towards the 

 base, followed by a very broad tawny band, leaving only the apical third and 

 the hind margin blackish. At the end of the cell is a curved brown band, and 

 there is also a row of four small white subapical spots. Posterior wings as in 

 the male, but rather lighter in colour, and much more rounded. 



Underside as in the male, but the white markings are more bluish, 

 whereas in the male they are almost silvery white. On the anterior wings the. 

 transverse line is hardly W-shaped above, and the white spots on the disk only 

 form indistinct eyes at the lower end of the series. 



Hab. Guadalcanar, Solomon Islands. 



In tlie Collections of Messrs. Godman and Salvin, H. Grose Smith, and others. 

 Allied to D. Browni, Godm. and Salv. Also inhabits Ahi, Fauro, and Treasury Islands. 

 (G. & S.) 



