XYMTHALIDJE HARMA. 



HARMA HYPATHA. 7, 8. 



Upperside. Female dark brown : both wings crossed by a broad submarginal 

 band of orange-yellow, marked near its upper border by indistinct brown lunular 

 spots ; on its lower border by dark brown spots, some of which are lunular, and on 

 the underwing form the crown of arched spots of yellow. Anterior wing crossed in 

 the cell by two zigzag black lines ; at the end of the cell by an indistinct line of 

 black, and beyond the cell by a rufous spot bordered with black : crossed beyond the 

 middle by a band of three triangular white spots. Posterior wing with two circular 

 spots within the cell, and two others below them indistinctly defined, sometimes 

 united in one. 



UNnERSiDE lilac and grey-brown. Both wings crossed at the middle by an 

 undulating band of crimson bordered outwardly with lilac-brown, both from this 

 band to the outer margin grey- white, clouded with grey and rufous-brown ; the 

 lunules and spots nearly as above. Anterior wing with the black lines of the cell 

 bordered (the one inwardly, the other outwardly) with lilac ; some rufous spots near 

 the base, a lilac spot near the middle of the costal margin, two lumdar lilac spots 

 towards the middle of the inner margin, all bordered above with black. 



Expan. 4^ - inch. Hab. Old Calabar. 



In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson. 



This species is placed in the British Museum Collection as the female of H. Fumana of 

 Westwood. The two insects bear very little resemblance to each other on either side of the wings. 

 As far as we know the sexes of Harma, they have a rather close resemblance to each other on the 

 underside. I prefer to consider this as a distinct species at present. 



