NYMPHALIDjE. 

 LIMENITIS. I. 



LIMENITIS LYNCIDES. L, 2. 



Upperside. Male, rufous-brown. Anterior wing rufous near the base, marked 

 with several black lines and spots ; the rest of the wing dark brown. Crossed at the 

 middle by a transverse unequal band of white divided into five by the nervures. 

 Posterior wing rufous, with a small white snot near the middle of the costal margin. 

 Crossed near the base by two short parallel black lines, followed before the middle by 

 two spots and an undulating line of black reaching from the white spot to the inner 

 margin. Crossed beyond the middle by a row of ova! black spots and a transverse 

 band of brown. Both wings with two submarginal black lines. The margins 

 brown, dotted with white between the nervules. 



Underside grey, slightly rufous. The bands and spots as above, except that the 

 anterior wing has two rows, each of three spots, between the white band and the 

 apex ; that the brown band of the posterior wing is changed into a second row of in- 

 distinct black spots. 



The female is larger, but does not otherwise differ from the male. 



Expan. 2^§ in. Hab. Celebes. 



In the Collections of W. W. Saunders and W. C. Hewitson. 



LIMENITIS LYMIRE. 3, 6. 



Upperside. Male, blue-black. Anterior wing lighter at the base, marked 

 with three indistinct black spots. Crossed obliquely at the middle by a row of five or 

 six grey-white spots (the third spot from the costal margin only sometimes visible). 

 Posterior wing crossed before the middle by a broad band of white. The ventral 

 fold light brown. The anal angle orange. Both wings crossed beyond the white 

 spots and band by four lines of grey-white, the first and third lines deeply waved 

 and forming with the second line two rows of black spots. The outer margin slightly 

 dotted with white. 



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