EURYTELID/E. AMECHANIA 



AMECHANIA INCERTA. 



Upperside. Male, anterior wing grey-brown, with a broad central longitudinal 

 band of white from the inner margin to beyond the third median nervule ; the end of 

 the cell, three lines which cross the cell longitudinally, the nervures, a deeply indented 

 zig-zag line near the outer margin (bordered inwardly with light yellow) and two large 

 spots (each with a centre of white), all black. Posterior wing white, tinted with yellow 

 towards the outer margin, the nervures, a deeply indented line near the outer margin 

 and four large spots (each with a centre of white), all black : the outer margin grey- 

 brown. 



Underside as above, except that the outer margins are almost white. 



Expan. 4-i in. Hab. Tondano (Celebes). 



In the Collection of A. R. Wallace. 



The very remarkable butterfly which is figured in the accompanying plate seems to set at nought 

 the labours of those who would link the creation together in one continuous chain. It is unlike any- 

 thing that has been seen before, and is out of place, and destroys the harmony of every genus with 

 which I have attempted to place it. In general aspect and colour it accords best with the female of 

 Danais Vitrea, the male of which is figured in the " Voyage au Pole Sud." In the deeply indented zig- 

 zag line near the outer margins it resembles the different species of Cethosia. There is no butterfly 

 with which I have compared it (and I have placed it side by side with every species with which it has the 

 slightest analogy) to which it is so nearly allied as to Melanitis Bioculatus, which is the female of Bois- 

 duval's Dyctis Agondas. I am not by any means content with the position in which I have placed it. 

 and am quite prepared to see it put with either the Morphidse or the Nymphalidas. It may have more 

 analogy with Diadema (affinity it has with none), as Mr. Westwood, who has been so kind as to examine 

 it at my request, thinks it has, but the slender body and clubless antennas do not fit it for such a 

 position. It has been most liberally lent to me from the very valuable private collection of Mr. 

 Wallace. 



