NYMPHALID.E — NYMPHALIN.E. — PROTIIOE. 



narrower, macular, or even reduced to a spot on the inner margin ; that on the 



anterior wings is also narrower ; inner margin not white at the base. On the 



UNDERSIDE, the submarginal spots on the anterior wings are more distinct. 



Hal). Bougainville Island ; Solomon Islands. 



The types, one of wbich is figured, are in Herr Carl Ribbe's Collection ; other specimens 

 are in the Hon. W. Rothschild's Collection at Trintf. 



II.— PROTHOE LAYARDI. g . Figs. 3, 4. 



Prothoe Laijardi, Godman and Salvin, "Proceedings of the Zoological 

 Society of London," 1882, p. 758. 



Exp. 4.3 inches. 



3falc. IJppERSiDE black, anterior wings with an oblique row of four long 

 subapical spots, the two lowest longest, narrowest, and interrupted. Posterior 

 wings W'ith a very large greenish-white patch, more cream-coloured in the 

 middle, covering almost the whole of the disc, except at the edges, beyond the 

 discoidal cell. 



Underside lighter brown, with several white spots in the cell ; the sub- 

 apical spots are whiter, smaller, and more sharply defined ; the third is repre- 

 sented by two separate small spots, and the fourth by one only. Posterior wings 

 with several white spots at the base and in the cell ; and with four rows of 

 slender bluish crescents, the two inner rows open basally, and the two outer 

 rows marginally. Outside these is a further row of five marks, the two upper- 

 most linear, nearly obsolete, the third yellowish, the fourth very large, orange- 

 yellow, and of irregular shape ; the fifth yellow, and forming a broad shallow 

 arch. The fourth and fifth are placed on the lobe. 



Body black, orbits and palpi beneath white ; legs streaked with white. 



Hab. New Iceland (Eev. G. Brown, and Mr. E. L. Layard). 



In the Collections of Messrs. Godman and Salvin, and of Mr. H. Grose-Smith. 

 Belongs to the group of Profhoe Ausiralis, Gucrin ; but has a great general resemblance to 

 the group of Pa^rilio {Nestorides, Hiibner) of which P. Gamhrisius (Cramer) is typical. 



