of the Genus Adolias. 63 



i Nymphalis Disconthea, Godart, Enc. Meth. ix. p. 384 



(1819). 

 Aconthea primaria, Horsfield, Catal. Lep. Mus. E. I. C. t. 8, 



f. 6 (1829). 

 Hab. Java. 



In Collection of East India Company, British Museum, W. W. 

 Saunders, Esq., W. C. Hevvitson, Esq. 



Adolias Aconthea. — Male. Upperside dark glossy olive brown : 

 fore-wing with broad transverse indistinct band of irregular 

 shaped spots, suffused anteriorly, and along the margins with 

 black, the inner margin of these spots being convex, the outer 

 zigzag, with the point inward ; markings at the base of wing 

 black : hind-wing with inner zigzag narrow dark band, and outer 

 row of small black triangular spots ; markings within discoidal cell 

 black. Underside pale-brown, marked as above, but the fore- 

 rving with the transverse band whitish, patch at apex of both 

 wings whitish. 



Female paler olive-brown : fore-wing with brownish white 

 band, suffused with dark brown on costal margin : hind-wing 

 with inner row of small brownish-white spots, and outer row of 

 triangular black spots ; base of wings with black marks. Under- 

 side pale brown, with band of fore-wing whitish ; hind-wing with 

 the inner row of whitish spots larger. 



Expanse of male 2f , female 2f inches. 



The transformations of Adolias Acoyithea are figured in the 

 "Catalogue of the Lepidopterous Insects in the Museum of the 

 East India Company," plate 6, fig. 1, 1 a, discovered in Java by 

 Dr. Horsfield. Feeds on the Mango. 



2. Adolias Porta, Moore. (PI. III. fig. 1, ^, ? .) 



Adolias Porta, n. sp. — Male, Upperside dark brown, with a 

 vinaceous tinge : fore-wing with a paler transverse band, margined 

 broadly on both sides with black, the anterior portion within, from 

 costal margin on both sides, with a series of small white patches ; 

 marks within discoidal cell bl.ick, with dark brown centres : hind- 

 wing with an inner blackish band and outer row of small black 

 spots. Underside paler, marked as above. 



Female. Upperside pale brown '.fore-wing with broad whitish 

 curved ti-ansverse band, with patch on costa and dark margins : 

 hind-wing with rather broad inner band, and outer zigzag line, 

 the point between each vein with a minute darker dot ; space be- 



