N Y M P H A L I D M. 

 ADOLIAS. IV. 



ADOLIAS ACONTIUS. 11. 

 Adolias Acontius, Hewitson, Annls. and Mag. of Nat. His., 1S74. 



Upperside. Female dark rufous-brown. Anterior wing with the usual spots 

 in the cell : crossed from the middle of the costal margin to a little beyond the first 

 median nervule by a band (broader as it proceeds) divided by the nervines into seven 

 white spots — the first minute, the last which is below the median nervule small: a 

 band of three spots, commencing nearer the apex, joins the band just described at 

 its fourth spot : crossed towards the outer margin by a series of black pyramidal 

 spots bordered inwardly (between them and the white band) by lilac ; the last 

 black spot near the anal angle bordered on both sides with lilac. Posterior wing 

 crossed beyond the middle by a broad lilac band irrorated with white and bordered 

 outwardly by a series of lunular black spots which have below them lilac spots. 



Underside green-blue near the base, lilac at the outer margin. Anterior wing 

 with the bands as above bordered by pale ochreous brown. Posterior wing with four 

 subbasal spots bordered with black ; the transverse band indistinct except near the 

 costal margin where it has a rufous border on both sides. 



Exp. Byu inches, llab. Andaman Islands. (Wimberley.) 



In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson. 



ADOLIAS CENESPOLIS. 14. 



Adolias Cenespolis, Hewitson, Entom. Man. Mag. page, 183, 1S75. 



Upperside. Female rufous-brown tinted with lilac beyond the middle. Both 

 wings crossed near the middle by a common band of white spots smaller towards the 

 inner margin of the posterior wing : both wings crossed beyond the middle by a 



Puhlhhcd July Ul, 1875.] 



