408 Colonel C. Swiulioe on neio 



small spots above curling inwards to near the costa ; a snb- 

 niargiiial row of spots, decreasing in size hindwards, and 

 a nnugiual row of small spots, the first six from the apex 

 in pairs : hind wing darker than the fore wing, uniform in 

 colour, some small dots at the base ; a submarginal complete 

 row of small spots and some spots close to the margin, obso- 

 lete on the upper half. 



? . Somewhat paler in colour, the spot-markings above and 

 below larger, those on the underside very prominent. 



Expanse of wings, ^ 3^%, ? Scinches. 



Hah. (!!eram Island. 



The fore wings in the male are shorter and more rounded 

 than is usual in the genus Salpinx, giving the insect the 

 appearance of a CalUpIaa. 



Family Nymphalidae. 



Gyrestis atosia, nov. 



^ . Mucli the same pattern as irmce *, Forbes, from 

 Sumatra ; belongs to the mcetialis group, represented in the 

 Indian region by the 7iivea-\ group figured by Bingham in 

 the ' Fauna of British India/ Butterflies, ii. p. 351 (1905) ; 

 but Bingiiam has figured nivalis I of Felder, from Java, 

 instead of nivea, a perfectly distinct species, with a broad 

 black costal border from the base to the apex of the fore wing, 

 type in Coll. Rothschild. In atosia the band is similar, but 

 the transverse lines are dark chocolate-brown, the costal band 

 of the fore wing is complete and contains three white spots 

 — one subapical, the others on each side of it ; the marginal 

 band is broader, its inner edge is bent in a curve between 

 veins 5 and 3, the edges of the bend connected together by a 

 thick transverse line, and there is a white streak near the 

 hinder angle above the orange-ochreous patch ; the hind 

 wing is marked much as in nivca, except that the white 

 streak in the marginal band from the apex downwards is 

 much narrower, the transverse lines on both wings thicker 

 and more prominent, the short bands downwards from the 

 costa of fore wing broader and more complete, the outer one 

 fining to a point on vein 4, the middle one across the cell, 

 and a subbasal one which crosses tlie wing and is continued 

 across the hind wing to the orange-ochreous anal patch ; the 



* 'A Naturalist's Wanderings in the Eastern Archipelago,' p. 274 

 (1885). 



t Zinken-Sommer, Xova Acta Acad. Le^p.-Car. 1831, p. 138, pi. xiv. 

 fig.l. 



X Reise Nov. Lep. 1886 p. -414. 



