NYMPHALID^.-NYMPHALIN^. 



HYPOLIMNAS. I. 



I.— HYPOLIMNAS BAETTELOTI. i . Figs. 1, ± 



IIijpoliiinKis Barttcloti, Henley Grose Smith, "Proceedings of the Zoological 

 Society of London," 1890, p. 468. 



Exp. 3^ inches. 



MaJr. Upperside. Anterior wings dark brown, a sinuate rather narrow 

 oblique white band in the cell at two-thirds of its length, an oval spot at the 

 end of the cell, with a few white scales above it ; a brownish-white patch on the 

 disc about its middle, divided into three by the upper and middle median 

 nervules, the middle part elongate-ovate, the upper part subovate, smaller, the 

 lower part linear, almost obsolete. Beyond this is a row of five round spots, 

 the uppermost and lowest the largest, but smaller than in H. DiiiarrJm, Hew., 

 the tliree others minute ; the cilia at the apex, and also minutely between the 

 veins, white. Posterior wings paler brown, the nervures and rays between dark 

 brown ; a stramineous patch interrupted by the dark nervures and rays occupies 

 the cell and the space above it, as far as the subcostal nervure and slightly 

 below the cell ; on the margin two minute white spots between each of the 

 veins from the subcostal nervure down to the upper median nervule ; the cilia 

 between these veins also spotted with white. 



Underside. Anterior wings paler than above towards the apex, and 

 blacker towards the base, and the spots larger ; above the white spot at the end 

 of the cell are two indistinct white streaks, and between the spot across the cell 

 and the base are four other white spots ; a series of small white submarginal 

 spots between the veins, commencing above the upper median nervule, and 

 running down to the posterior angle. Posterior wings as above, the central 

 patch being whiter and more extended, a submarginal row of minute white 

 spots as above, but four instead of two between each of the veins ; the cilia also 

 spotted as above. 



Hab. Forest, of Central Africa (Bonny). 



In the Collection of Henley Grose Smith. 



Allied to H. Dinarcha, Hewitsou, but the wings are browner and broader, and th" row of 

 spots beyond the middle differ in size from those in that sjjecies. 



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