Rhopulocera from Xort/i yew imtnta. 18.3 



yellow area is thus terniinatetl outwardly Iti a deep curve : 

 secondaries with a broad blackish stripe below the costa 

 terniiiiati!)i; just short of the apex ; a trace of a black aub- 

 teriniiial spot on veins 1 a, *2, and 3. 



Underside : both wings paler than above, especially the 

 primaries, the blackish areas showing through as deep rusty 

 red. Primaries with a Hue silver line along the upper 

 margin of the cell, below which is a rusty dash ; one or two 

 slM)rt, taint, silver, transverse dashes in the cell ; throe small 

 silver 8ix>ts in a triangle beyond the cell ; a subterminal row 

 of fine mternervular silver dashes trom the apex to vein 2; 

 the black of the upperside does not show through at all 

 below this vein. Secondaries : base of costa rusty red ; a 

 broad deep rusty-red stripe below the costa right into the 

 apex ; on its upper margin are two creamy-white spots 

 above the cell, the outer one the larger of the two ; beyond 

 these is a pale bluish-silvery small spot, followed just above 

 the apex by a whitish 8|)0t; cell tilloi in with deep rusty 

 red, intercepted near the base with a white mark, and further 

 out with a white inverted V-shaped mark, followed outside 

 the cell by another similar white mark ; below the angle of 

 Vein 2 is a bright red quadrangular mark, edged finely with 

 bluish silver, and beyond this with creamy white ; nearer 

 the base than this is another double red spot on the inner 

 margin, edged with silver and black ; the posterior series of 

 ppots is resolved into a confluent red band, edged laterally 

 with creamy white, very deeply angulated outwards between 

 veins 3 and 4 ; the spot between veins 2 and 3 reaches 

 nearly to the angle of the latter and has a central cream spot; 

 along vein 1 a is a red dash extending outwards and edged 

 finely with black and silver, followed by a broad spot to 

 vein 1 edged with black and silver ; termen broadly palo 

 reddish, more marked at the tornus, with a double internal 

 fine edging of black and creamy white, and having a central 

 line of bluish silver, interrupted at the veins; termination of 

 veins 1 a, 2, and 3 black. 



Expanse 48 mm. 



JJab. VVendisi, Geelvink Bay. 



Type in Cull. G. II. Kenrick. 



On the upperside this species has some resemblance to 

 JI. chrysarytjra, Grose-JSmith, but the underside is totally 

 dissimilar. 



