NYMPHALID.E.-NYMPHALIX.E. 



LIMEXITIS. I. 



I.— LIMENITIS HOLLANDI. i . Figs. 1, 2. 



Limcnltis HoUamUi, Doherty, " Journal of Asiatic Society of Bengal," 

 Vol. LX., Part II., Ko. 2, p. 177 (1891). 



Fantoporia HoUandii, Moore, " Lepidoptera Imlica," Vol. III., p. 207. 



Exp. 2|- inches. 



" Male. Above, black ; cilia alternately black and white, a double undulating 

 submarginal pale line, touched with whitish apically on the fore-wing; two 

 united white spots placed obliquely subapically above the radial veins, with or 

 without a smaller one below them. A broad common white band, very slenderly 

 cut by dark veins, edged outwardly with purple, across both wings, extending 

 on the fore-wing nearly to the upper median vein, the upper (fourth) piece small, 

 the inner edge of the band straight, the outer irregular. Hind wing with the 

 white band extending nearly to the submedian vein, w-here it is tapering, both 

 its edges nearly straight. 



Below, chestnut-red of different shades, the basal two-thirds of the cell 

 mostly white, with a crooked dark mark, an irregular white spot at the end of 

 the cell, its low^er side tapering ; the white band extends nearly to the lower 

 radial vein ; two submarginal pale lines, the inner mostly bluish-white with 

 three white subapical spots, a chestnut longitudinal streak in the interno-median 

 space. 



Hind wing with the two submarginal lines regular, grey, undulating, base 

 chiefly white with transverse streaks of chestnut, namely, two in the cell, 

 two between the costal and first subcostal vein, one along the precostal vein, 

 and a long one from the costa tapering to the submedian vein ; the white band 

 broad." 



Hab. Do Donggo country, Sambawa, above 2,000 feet (Doherty). 



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



VOL. III., JULY, 1899. z 



