126 LLOYD'S NATUPAL HISTORY. 



blotch on the hind-wings in the male, and connected sub- 

 marginal orange markings. The female has two converging 

 rows of large white spots on the fore-wings, and a broad sub- 

 marginal orange band on the hind-wings, containing a row of 

 oval black eyes, ocellated with pale blue. This band is repre- 

 sented on the under side of the hind-wing in both sexes, and 

 the blue pupils of the eyes are much larger. 



H. salmaris (Drury) is a common African Butterfly, four 

 inches in expanse, and broadly banded with blue and white on 

 a black ground. 



The African genus Enralia, Westwood, has rather longer 

 and narrower fore-wings than typical Hypolimnas. The spe- 

 cies are black-bordered, with white hind-wings, a white sub- 

 apical band on the fore-wings, and a broader oblique one 

 nearer the base, or a white space on the inner-margin. They 

 mimic various species of the genus Amauris in the Danaina. 



Pseudacrcea, Westwood, is another African genus, which is 

 usually placed in the neighbourhood of Hypolimnas > though 

 Schatz and Rober consider it more nearly allied to Limenitis 

 in its neuration. The species are black, with red spots and 

 markings, or black and white, and closely resemble the larger 

 species of Gnesia and Planema in colour. Some of the smaller 

 species, however, which are found both in Africa and Mada- 

 gascar, measure about two inches across, have shorter wings, 

 green or white towards the base, and have but little resemblance 

 to Acrczintz. 



There are several peculiar East Indian genera of rather 

 small extent, which are almost confined to the Asiatic conti- 

 nent, and are most numerous in Northern India. One of 

 these is Hestina (Moore), the type of which, H. assimilis 

 (Linn.), is a common insect in India and China. It is about 

 three inches in expanse, and is of a dark brown, with buff 

 streaks and spots arranged in transverse lines op the fore- 



