ERYCINID.E — SOSPITA. 



SOSPITA STATIRA. 9, 10, IT, 12. 



Upperside. Male dark brown ; the posterior wing with a submarginal band 

 of orange spots. 



Underside brown ; anterior wing with a small spot near the base, three trans- 

 verse bands, two spots near the apex and a minute spot at the apex all white ; posterior 

 wing with three white spots within the cell : a curved band of oblong black spots at 

 the middle, the two spots neai'cst the inner margin bordered above and below with 

 grey-white : a second submarginal band of oblong black spots bordered above and 

 below with white : followed by a band of orange marked on the outer mai"gin with 

 black spots : a spot of white at the anal angle. 



Female rufous-brown ; anterior wing with the outer half black : crossed beyond 

 the middle by a broad orange-yellow band followed by a minute white spot ; the apex 

 with two minute white spots ; posterior wing crossed at the middle and again near 

 the outer margin by short cm'ved bands each of three black spots : the outer margin 

 also marked with black spots with rufous lumdar spots between them. Underside 

 with the base of the anterior wing and the whole of the posterior wing rufous ; 

 anterior wing black with the central transverse band as above, a round black spot 

 near the base, a curved band of white spots towards the apex as in the male, two 

 spots of white nearer the apex and two at the apex also white ; posterior wing as in 

 the male, except that the three spots near the base are black, and that the central 

 curved band of black spots is broken in the middle. 



Expan. 3i-y in. Ilab. Mysol. 



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



I have named one of these very beautiful new butterflies after its discoverer Mr. Wallace. No 

 naturalists who have ever yet left the shores of Europe to explore the unkuon-n glories of the tropics 

 have so well deserved the gratitude of entomologists as Mr. Wallace and Mr. Bates have done, and if 

 they had taken their colleclions to the Continent they might have had their names repeated ad nauseam, 

 but I do not believe that this would have been to the taste of my countrymen. Such a mark of the 

 approbation of his brother naturalists might have been considered an honour worth winning, if bestowed 

 upon those only who have earned it by years of devotion to the cause, but when given indiscriminately, 

 and to those who have never done anything to deserve it, it becomes of little value. 



