426 Mr. A. G. Butler's descriptions of some netv species 



brown; whitish bands better defined; marginal brownish 

 border narrower : expanse 3 inches, 4 lines. 

 Hub. ? 



Subfam. Nymphalin^. 

 Genus Panopea, Hiibner. 



Panopea Drucei, n. sp. (PI. VI. fig. 3.) 



Primaries above black ; a subcostal spot at end of basal 

 third of cell, an oblique quadrifid band cut by the median 

 nervure and its two first branches, an oblique subapical 

 band, composed of a subcostal dot and three large spots, 

 a waved submarginal series of seven spots (smallest at the 

 centre of the series), and some geminate dots near centre 

 of outer margin, pearlv-white ; fi-inge white-spotted ; 

 secondaries whitish-buff, becoming white at basi-costal 

 area ; base, costa, and a broad marginal border, black- 

 brown, changing to ]iale brown toAvards anal angle ; ner- 

 vures and internervular folds black ; a submarginal series 

 of six large white spots ; a double, interrupted, marginal 

 rosy -white line ; fringe white-varied : body black-brown, 

 head and prothorax black, Avhite-spotted ; primaries below 

 with apical costal half olivaceous-brown ; all the white 

 marldngs more consjiicuous than above ; a white costal 

 spot at base ; secondaries with the dark-brown area re- 

 placed by pale olive-brown ; two continuous marginal 

 white lines ; base dark brown, white-spotted ; thorax 

 black, white-spotted ; abdomen brown, venter whitish : 

 expanse 3 inches, 3 lines. 



Hab. — Madagascar. 



A very handsome species. 



Genus Hestina, "Westwood. 



Hestina mimetica, n. sp. 



Allied to H. Nama; differs in its much smaller size ; 

 browner tint ; the divergence, towards costa of primaries, 

 of the double discal, from the double submarginal series of 

 spots; the broader division betAveen the discal spots on 

 median interspaces ; the regularly-formed angulated sub- 

 marginal lunules on all the wings ; the lilacine tint of 

 internal area of primaries ; the uniform red-broAvn tint of 

 the ground colour on under surface ; the black proboscis : 

 expanse 3 inches, 3 lines. 



Ilab. — Java. 



