Eastern Picr'ulce. 393 



2. Thestias Rcinrvardlii, Vollenhoven. 

 Thestlas Reinnardtli, Voll. Tijd. v. Ent. iii. p. 126; Mon. Pier. 



p. 50, pi. vi. f. 1, $. 



Female. — Above, upper wings black, the internal border broadly 

 white, the base dusky, a white oblique spot across the origin of the 

 subcostal nervules, a smaller one below it, and three ovate spots 

 near the outer margin ; lower wings white, the base dusky, and a 

 broad black outer border. In one specimen the markings of the 

 upper wings are more developed, and of a yellow colour. Be- 

 neath, upper wings pale yellow, more or less irrorated with dusky, 

 a large brown discoidal spot, beyond which is an irregular brown 

 band, merging in a large patch at the outer angle ; lower wings 

 ochre-yellow, sparely irrorated on the disc, and densely on the 

 outer margin, a small discoidal spot, and between it and the border 

 a row of six or seven rufous-brown spots, dusky-margined, the 

 third and fourth largest, and the whole nearly confluent. 



Hub. — Baly, Lombock, Flores (Coll. Wall.). 



A well-marked species, variable in the female, and restricted to 

 the islands between Java and Timor. 



3. Thestias hnlice, Boisduval. 

 Thestias balice, Bd. Sp. Gen. p. 593, $. 

 Ifai.— Java (B. M.), $. 



4. Thestias Vollenhovii, Wallace. 

 Thestias balice, Voll. Mon. Pier. p. 50, $, ? Qiec Boisd.). 

 ^«ft.— Timor (Coll. Wall.), ^,2. 



Vollenhoven's description is correct. Boisduval's refers to the 

 Java form, which is sufficiently distinct. 



5. Thestias venatrix, n. sp. 



Male. — Above, yellovv ; the hind wings with a very narrow dark 

 edge, extending slightly on the nervures at the outer angle ; fore 

 wings with a large triangular orange-red patch in the middle, 

 surrounded by a black border, narrow within and on the costa, 

 wider at the apex and outer margin, the nervures and a discoidal 

 spot black; the base of the wing bluish, and of the costa brown. 

 Beneath: upper wings yellow, their margins and the whole of the 

 lower wings pale yellow, thickly irrorated with reddish-ochre, 

 discoidal spot on the lower wings of the same colour and small, on 

 the upper wings larger and black. 



Smaller than T. balice, to which it is allied. 



//rt/^.— Moulmein (B. M.). 



