176 Mr. H. Grose Smith on new 



submedian nervure is centred with white. On the posterior 

 wings the discal row of spots is smaller than in H. pandarus. 



Expanse of wings, (J 3|, ? 3f inches. 



Hab. Fergusson Island [AleeJc). 



Nearest to //. pandarus and //. Saundersi, Wall. 



Hypolimnas paleutes. 



(J . Upperside resembles //. deoi's, Hew., but on the poste- 

 rior wings the pale discal patch is more widely suffused by 

 violaceous, and the outer edge of the patch is less acutely 

 angulated in the middle ; there is only a faint indication of 

 the orange-tawny patch at the anal angle, and there is a 

 distinct submarginal row of spots centred, except the fourth, 

 with violet. 



Underside darker than in H. deois ; the anterior wings are 

 without the pale space in the middle of the costal margin, 

 and, instead of two indistinct pale lines parallel with the 

 outer margin, there is only an indication of one line close to 

 the margin. The posterior wings are dusky brown, except a 

 narrow pale space inside the discal row of spots, which are 

 six in number, centred with violaceous, more conspicuously 

 than in //. deois^ in which the black spots are centred with 

 white dots ; the two spots nearest the anal angle are partly 

 surrounded by dusky tawny ; only the spot above the upper 

 median nervule is obsolete, and the row of pale lines near the 

 outer margin of //. deois is absent. 



? . Upperside dusky brown ; a very indistinct, almost 

 invisible, oblique paler band crosses the wings beyond the 

 cell ; a white streak at the middle of the costa and a sub- 

 marginal row of white dots across the disk between the veins, 

 except on either side of the upper median nervule. On the 

 posterior wings is a curved row of black spots across the 

 disk, centred with white, of which the second and sixtii are 

 the largest and the fourth the smallest ; inside the row of 

 spots between it and the cell is a slight irroration of wiiite 

 scales. 



Underside as above, but paler. On the j)osterior wings 

 the discal row of spots, in whicli the central spots are much 

 larger, is bordered on either side by a paler dusky space, and 

 the dark outer marginal band is divided by a pale brown 

 sinuate line, divided by the dark veins. 



Exjianse of wings, ^ ^\, ? v^f inches. 



Hah. Kiriwini, 'J'robriands [Meek). 



