126 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



Lachnoptera Jole, Fabr., from West Africa, ranch resembles 

 Cirrochroa, but tlie tips of the fore wings are less prominent, 

 and the hind wings are broader; it expands about two 

 inches and a half, and is tawny, with a double festooned 

 submarginal line, and traces of a third, broken into lunules. 

 The hind wings have a very large patch of raised brown 

 scales on the cosla, and the black spots are centred with 

 silvery beneath, and edged inside with an irregular silvery 

 band. 



Cynthia Arsinoe, Cram., is an insect expanding from two 

 and a half to four inches across. The hind wings are nearly 

 square, with a projecting angle or short tail, and with two 

 eye-spots towards the hind margin. The male is tawny, with 

 a nearly straight brown band running fVom the middle of the 

 costa of the fore wings to the anal angle of tlie hind wings ; 

 on the under side it is joined by an oblique band running 

 from the tip of the hind wings to the anal angle, just within 

 the eyes. The female is greenish brown above, with a broad 

 whitish band crossing both wings, and growing narrower 

 towards the inner margin of the hind wings. This species is 

 very common in the East Indies, and is also found in Africa. 

 It is either very variable, or there are several closely-alHed 

 species. 



The next three genera, Messaras, Atella, and Euptoieta, 

 are of small extent, and contain species expanding about 

 two or two and a half inches. The hind wings are rounded 

 and scalloped, generally with a slight angular projection in 

 the middle, which is prolonged into a short tail in Atella 

 Egista. The fore wings are rather broad, with the costa 

 more or less arched, and the hind margin is either almost 

 straight or slightly rounded in Messaras, and slightly concave 

 in the other genera. The species of Messaras are lawny 

 brown towards the base, with a broad straw-coloured or 

 orange band across the fore wings, and sometimes the hind 

 wings also; the latter are frequently marked with a row of 

 dark spots, within which is a bluish or lead-coloured line 

 above, which is silvery below. The tip of the fore wings is 

 broadly brown ; and in the common Australian M. Madestes 

 the borders of all the wings are deep black. M . Erymantlns 

 is a common East Indian species. The others chiefly inhabit 

 the Moluccas and the Papuan Islands. The species oi' Atella 

 are chiefly Indian or Papuan. A. Phalavta is uniform 

 fulvous, with the wings edged with festooned lines, within 

 which is a row of black spots on all the wings, and the cell 



