468 TEE CRUISE OF TEE 'CURAgOA: 



Genus Danais, Latreille. 

 PLATE XLVIII. Figs. 1,2. 



DANAIS INSOLATA, Bnih-i: 



Ann. and Mag. Kat. Hist. s. 4, vol. v., p. 360, n. 2 (1870). 



S, 5 Wings above brown, the disc obsoletely streaked wth 

 fulvous between the nervures ; front wings with the external area 

 snow-white, divided by the nervures (especially at anal angle), 

 interrupted by an oblong costal patch, and separated at apex into 

 five marginal points ; hind wings with a white marginal band, 

 separated by the nervures into eight subdivided square spots ; 

 margin black. 



Wings below paler ; hind wings more fulvous tlian above, the 

 marginal spots entire ; expanse of wings 2 inches 11 lines. 



Two specimens {S , $ ). South Sea Islands. Coll. Brit. Museum. 



Genus Diabema, Boisdural. 

 PLATE XLVni. Figs. 3, 4. 



tllADEMA BOLINA, Idnnceus, var, 



? Very like the female of the variety P. Lasinassa Fabr., but 

 Vvith the black suffusion of front wings confined to the discoidal 

 and anal areas ; hind wings without dusky scaling on disc, and 

 with central spot pearly white ; it differs below in being paler, 



