358 Mr. W. C. Hewitson on new Species of Butterjlies. 



spot : crossed towards the outer margin by a series of black 

 pyramidal spots, bordered inwardly (between them and the 

 wliite band) by lilac ; the last black spot near the anal angle 

 bordered on both sides with lilac. Posterior wing crossed 

 beyond the middle by a broad lilac band, irrorated with white 

 and bordered outwardly by a series of lunular black spots, 

 which have below them hastate lilac spots. 



Underside lilac-white. Anterior wing with the bands as 

 above, bordered by pale ochreous brown. Posterior wing with 

 five subbasal spots, bordered with black ; the transverse band 

 indistinct, except near the costal margin, where it has a rufous 

 border on both sides. 



Exp. 3ttj- inches. 



Adolias Ciharitis. 



Upperside. Female dark rufous brown. Both -wnngs with 

 the usual spots in and below the cell : both crossed beyond 

 the middle, from the costal margin of the anterior wing 

 to the anal angle of the posterior wing, by a broad band of 

 white divided by the nervures, sinuated deeply on its inner 

 margin at its fourth spot, bordered outwardly by a series of 

 hastate black spots crowned with lilac. Anterior wing with 

 a small white spot between the band and the apex. 



Underside pale green. Both wrings with the bands and 

 spots as above, bordered inwardly with black. 



Male like the female, except that the Avhite band of the 

 posterior wing is narrower, and on the miderside bordered on 

 both sides with black spots. 



Exp. cJ 2^, ? ^ inches. 



This is the largest known species of the Trigerta group, to 

 which it belongs. 



Melanitis Cottonis. 



Upperside. Male dark red-brown. Both wrings with the 

 outer margins rufous. Anterior wing with the costal margin 

 lilac-blue. 



Underside as above, undulate with grey, the outer margins 

 broadly undulate with grey and brown. Anterior wing with 

 a large triangular grey spot, undulate with brown near the 

 apex. Posterior wing with a white spot near the middle of 

 the costal margin. 



Female like the male, except that it is much larger and 

 paler, and that the anterior wing has on its upperside some 

 grey spots on the costal margin. 



Exp. S 21, ? 3iV inches. 



I prefer to consider this a distinct species rather than to 

 place it as a variety of M. undularis. Both sexes are alike, 

 are without spots, and have a broad ruh)us margin. 



