NTirPHALID^. — NYMPHALIN.?:. — HYPOLIMNAS. 



II.— HYPOLIMNAS STANLEYI. $ . Figs. 3, 4. 



Ihljiiiliiiiuas Staulnii, Henley Grose Smith, " Proceedings of the Zoological 

 Society of London," 1890, p. 467. 



Exp. 4 inches. 



Male. Upperside. Anterior \vings black, with a large, very oblique, elon- 

 gate central spot white, finntly tinged witli pink ; the upper part is bifid, and 

 extends into tlic cell (where there is a minute spot above it) and al)ove the 

 median nervurc ; the lower part occupies the area between the median nervules, 

 except a small space in the angle formed by the junction of the lowest median 

 nervule, and extends outwardly to nearly four-fifths of the length of tlie wing, 

 being irregularly defined on its upper and outer edge ; it also extends slightly 

 Ix'low the lowest median nervule, where it is represented by some irregularly- 

 marked white scales. There is a suliapical white patch divided into two by the 

 lowest subcostal nervule, the upper part being the smallest. 



Posterior wings dark brown, with a white centre, which is shaded exter- 

 nally with pinkish-blue, and traversed across the disc as far as the cell by the 

 Ijlack nervures and rays between ; a row of very minute bluish-white spots 

 between the veins near the margin. 



Underside. Anterior wmgs black at the base, shading into brown towards 

 the apex ; the patch and apical spot as above, but larger, especially that part of 

 the patch which lies within the cell, where it extends upwards till it joins the 

 small white spot ; nearer the base is another small elongate white spot, and 

 there are several more small white spots at the base ; on the margin, from above 

 the upper median nervule to the posterior angle is a row of small white spots, 

 in pairs, alternately longer and shorter. 



Posterior wings with the base and the space between the costal margin and 

 the subcostal nervure broadly bright brown, the veins and a ray between 

 them dark lirown; the central area (as well as the abdominal fold) is white, 

 sliading into dull brown towards the outer margin and anal angle, and traversed 

 l)y the dark brown veins, with rays of the same colour between; a series of 

 minute spots on the margin. 



Head marked with a few white spots ; antennte black ; throat and abdomen 

 black above, brown beneath. 



Hal). Great Forest of Central Africa (Bonny). 



In the Collection of Henley Grose Smith. 

 Very unlike any other species of the group. 



