N Y M PHAL1DI. 



ADOLIAS. 



ADOLIAS AEETES. 1, 2. 



Upperside. Male dark brown; anterior wing with several indistinct light 

 brown spots near the base: crossed obliquely beyond the middle by a band of six 

 white spots and nearer the apex by three small spots also white, which meet the 

 fourth spot of the band just described, and with it form a triangle. Posterior v 

 crossed transversely beyond the middle by a band of grey, divided by the nervures 

 which are black. Both wings crossed by a submarginal band of black spots bordered 

 outwardly with grey. 



Underside rufous-brown ; anterior wing as above, except that there is a 

 quadrifid spot in the cell margined on both sides with black and that the indistinct 

 spots of the upperside are here white ; posterior wing with three lilac spots bordered 

 with black within the cell ; two lunidar spots of the same colour near the middle and 

 a submarginal band of black spots. 



Female considerably larger, light brown above, does not differ from the uiali 

 on the upperside in the marking of the anterior wing. The posterior wing with 

 three pale rufous oblong spots near the middle; crossed beyond the middle by two 

 bands of pale rufous spots, with between them oblong spots of dark brown. 

 Underside as in the male, except that it is much paler. 



Expan. S S^q in., $ 3-^- in. Hab. Celebes. 



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



The female of this species bears considerable resemblance lo that of Dirtea (var. Boisdu 

 figured in G. I!. Gray's " Lepidopterous Insects of Nepal," PI. X 



