398 Mr. A. G. Butler on new Species of Butterflies, 



Body : thorax brown, spotted with green ; palpi green ; ab- 

 domen olivaceous brown. 



Eocpanse of wings 1 inch 11 lines. 

 Hab, New Caledonia. 



3. Diadema Mena. 

 Hestina Mena, Moore, MS. 



Upperside — front wings pale greenish ; nervures, end of cell, 

 and a submarginal band along the hind margin broadly rich 

 brown; two indistinct inner submarginal bands of brown scales: 

 hind ivings pale ochreous, nervures rich brown ; a submarginal 

 row of brown lunules between the nervures along the hind 

 margin. 



Bodyhxoyin above; head and thorax streaked with ochreous; 

 antennse black. 



Underside — front wings pale greenish ; end of cell, base of 

 nervures, an indistinct band of scales between the nervures just 

 beyond the cell, and an indistinct submarginal row of spots 

 along the hind margin brown ; termination of nervures fulvous: 

 hind wings pale ochreous ; nervures brown ; a submarginal band 

 of indistinct brown spots between the nervures along the hind 

 margin ; front margin darker ochreous. 



Body rich brown ; tibiae and tarsi of front legs and tarsi of 

 middle and hind legs alternately brown and white. 



Expanse of wings 3^ inches. 



Hub. North India. 



This insect was named by Mr. Frederick Moore, of the Indian 

 Museum. 



4. Heterochroa Lydia. 



Upperside rich brown, with a central white band, faintly 

 tinted with violaceous, extending, entire, from the first discoidal 

 nervure of the front to the anal angle of the hind wings, con- 

 tinued above the first discoidal to the subcostal nervure in the 

 form of two minute and indistinct white spots ; a large angular 

 orange blotch near the apex of the front wings, extending from 

 the costa to the first discoidal nervure ; a small orange blotch 

 at the anal angle of hind wings ; two submarginal dark-brown 

 bands, interrupted by the nervures, near the hind margin of 

 front wings, and three similar bands on the hind wings ; base 

 irrorated with orange scales ; cell of front wings crossed by five 

 equidistant, oblique, black lines, the one nearest the base more 

 oblique than the others, extending half across the cell; three 

 similar short black lines below the cell; hind-wing cell only 

 crossed by two black lines, and closed by a third ; inner margin 

 pale brown. 



