NYMPHALID.E.-NYMPHALIN.E. 



HYPOLIMNAS. II. 



III.— HYPOLBINAS PALEUTES. i. Fig. 1. $. Figs. 2, 3. 



HjjpoUmnas Fakutes, H. Gvose-Qmith, "Annals and Magazine of Natural 

 History," Ser. 6, Vol. XIX., p. 176, February, 1807. 



Exp. i 31 inches ; ? 3f inches. 



JJale. Upperside resembles H. Dcois, Hew., but on the posterior wings the 

 pale discal patch is more widely suffused by violaceous, and the outer edge of 

 the patch is less acutely angulated in the middle ; there is only a faint indication 

 of the orange-tawny patch at the anal angle, and there is a distinct submarginal 

 row of spots centred, except the fourth, with violet. 



Underside darker than in H. Dcois ; the anterior wings are almost without 

 the pale space in the middle of the costal margin, and, instead of two indistinct 

 pale lines parallel with the outer margin, there is only an indication of one line 

 close to the margin. The posterior wings are dusky brown, except a narrow pale 

 space (narrower and less extended than in //. Lcoi.s) inside the discal row of 

 spots, which are six in number, centred with violaceous, more conspicuously 

 than in H. Dcois, in which the black spots are centred with white dots ; the 

 two spots nearest the anal angle are partly surrounded by dusky tawny ; only 

 the spot above the upper median nervule is obsolete, and the row of pale lines 

 near the outer margin of H. Dcois is absent. 



Female. Upperside dusky brown ; a very indistinct, almost invisible, 

 oblique paler band crosses the wings beyond the cell ; a white streak at the 

 middle of the costa and a submarginal row" of white dots across the disk between 

 the veins, except on either side of the upper median nervule. On the posterior 

 wings is a curved row of black spots across the disk, centred with white, of 

 which the second and sixth are the largest and the fourth the smallest ; inside 

 the row of spots, between it and the cell, is a slight irroration of white scales. 



Underside as above, but paler. On the posterior wings the discal row of 

 spots, in which the central spots are much larger, is bordered on either side by 

 a paler dusky space, and the dark outer marginal band is divided by a pale 

 brown sinuate line, crossed by the dark veins. 



Hab. Kiriwini, Trobriands (Meek). 



In the Collections of Mr. Grose-Smith and others. 

 VOL. III., JULY, 1897. c 



