PAPILIONID.E. PIERIN.T:. — HUPHINA. 



VII.— HUPHINA PERICLEA. ? . Figs. 4, 5. 



ricris Pcrich'K, Feld., " Reise der Novara," Vol. II. p. 169. 



rU'ris Narsi'.f, Wallace, " Transactions of the Entomological Society," 

 Vol. IV., p. 333 (November, 1807.) 



Exp. If inches. 



Fciiuth'. Upperside, Anterior wings white, with the costa and base dusky 

 and the apical third brownish-black, broadest on the costal margin, becoming 

 rather narrower at the outer angle, deeply indented by the white ground-colour 

 between the two lowest median nervules, and above the uppermost median 

 nervule ; two oval white spots in the black area before the apex, with indications 

 of two others below them. Posterior wings white, with the outer fourth 

 brownish-black, indented I)y the ground-colour above the uppermost median 

 nervule, and above the discoidal nervule ; a round white spot in the black area 

 towards the apex and another smaller spot above it. 



Underside. Anterior wings with the dark apical area as on the upperside, 

 but becoming rusty ochreous towards the apex, with three or four dusky wliite 

 spots between the veins in the middle of the dark area, tinged with yellow 

 towards the base. Posterior wings, pale dusky ochreous, with the outer fourth 

 darker ochreous, in which are indistinct pale patches towards the apex, the basal 

 portion of the costa orange. 



Hab. Moreton Bay. 



In the CoUectiou oi H. Grose-Smith. 



The insect here figured is the specimen refeiTecl to by Mr. Wallace as the female of 

 P. Naiseg in the Collection of Mr. W. W. Saunders, whence it passed into Mr. Grose-Smith's 

 Collection. Mr. Kirby rightly gives P. Nurses as a synonym of P. Periclea. The type male of 

 P. Periclea in the Felder Collection is now before me. On the upperside there are three more 

 white spots in the outer marginal dark area of the anterior wings, and the outer marginal dark 

 area of the posterior wings is narrower ; on the underside, the inner three-fourths of the pos- 

 terior wings is rather darker, the outer fourth being somewhat paler. There can be little doubt 

 that this is the dry season form of H. Lanassa, Boisd., H. Nabis, Lucas, and H. Perithea, Feld., 

 as lucidly explained by Dr. Butler in his paper on this species in the " Annals and Magazine of 

 Natural History," Vol. XVII., Ser. ti, p. 231. The specimen in the Hewitsou Collection, labelled 

 underneath " Nurses," is not a male but a female, to which the body of a male has been attached ; 

 Mr. Hewitsou named it '" Periimtle," which is obviously an error. 



