NYMPHALID £. 
MESSARAS. 
MESSARAS MAZONIDES. 1, 2. 
Uprrersipr. Male, from the base to near the middle, rufous; crossed at the 
middle by a broad transverse orange band, clouded where it meets the inner margin, 
and marked with a black spot. Beyond the band dark brown, with a submarginal 
band of black. Posterior wing rufous; crossed before the middle by a transverse 
narrow band of orange, margined on both sides with black, followed (touching it) by 
an indistinct band of lilac, by a band of six black spots, and by two submarginal 
bands of the same colour. The outer margin brown, 
Unpersipe yellow. Both wings with four transverse rufous bands; the first 
before the middle and very narrow; the second and third zigzag, inclosing between 
them a band (broken in the middle) of black spots. The black spot near the inner 
margin of the anterior wing large; the second band of the posterior wing margined 
inside with silvery white. 
Expan. 2;%, in. Hab. Celebes. 
In the Collections of W. W. Saunders and W. C. Hewitson. 
MESSARAS MADESTES. 3, 6. 
Uprrrsipr. Female dark brown. Both wings crossed transversely at the 
middle by a broad common band of orange, marked on the anterior wing by a round 
black spot. Anterior wing with two orange spots near the apex. 
Unpersipre. Both wings, from the base to the central band (which is light 
yellow), rufous-yellow, rufous beyond the central band; both with a submarginal row 
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