NYMPHALID.E.-NYMPIIALIN^E. 



HYPOLIMNAS. III. 



v.— HYPOLIMNAS PALLAS. Figs. 1, 2. 



Hypolimnas Pallas, H. Grose- Smith, " Annals and Magazine of Natural 

 History," Series 6, Vol. XIX., p. 406 (April, 1897). 



Exp. 3 1 inches. 



31ale. Upperside. Both wings brown. Anterior wings crossed obliquely 

 half-way between the end of the cell and the apex by an obscure ferruginous 

 band, commencing on the costa and becoming obsolete between the two 

 upper median nervules some distance before reaching the outer margin ; a 

 subapical oval white spot, followed by an elongate ferruginous streak extending 

 nearly to the oblique ferruginous band. Posterior wings with a broad fulvous 

 submarginal band across the disc, in which between the veins is a row of black 

 spots, some of which are centred by a minute white spot. 



Underside. Paler brown. Anterior wings with three spots, edged with 

 black, in the cell at its upperside, and an irregular brownish-white streak a 

 little beyond the end of the cell, followed by an irregular triangular broad 

 band of brownish-white, placed obliquely, the base of the triangle resting on 

 the costa and its apex, which is elongated outwardly, terminating on the upper 

 median nervule ; a pale brownish-white patch a little before the apex ; a row of 

 seven black spots centred with white crosses the disc beyond its middle, outside 

 w^hich are two submarginal sinuate pale brown lines. Posterior wings closely 

 resemble those of H. Formosa, Her.-Schaff,, but the pale band, which crosses 

 the disc of that species in which the spots are situate, is more obscure. 



Hab. New Hebrides. 



In Mr. H. Grose-Smith's CollectioiL 



Nearest to H. Formosa, but a much larger insect, and the wiugs are more elongate. 

 VOL. III., JAXUAEr, 1898. i" 



