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61. Hypolimnas misippus, Linn. (PL B., figs. 8 c?,8a $).— Male upperside 

 rich velvety dark brownish black. Forewing : a broad, oval, oblique white 

 spot from below vein 3 to vein 7 and a preapical smaller similar white spot ; 

 both spots crossed by black veins and surrounded by irridescent blue. 

 Hindwing with a much larger, similarly rounded, white spot surrounded by 

 irridescent blue, but the veins crossing it yellowish, not so prominent as on 

 the forewing ; two or three minute specks of white at the tornus. Cilia of 

 both fore and hindwings white alternated with black. Underside forewing : 

 bases of interspaces 1 and 2 and cell rich light castaneous, discal area 

 fuscous brown ; apical half golden brown ; basal half of costal margin flecked 

 with white ; cell anteriorly black with three white spots ; a narrow, transverse, 

 very short, white mark beyond apex of cell ; a very broad somewhat oval 

 discal white patch from costa to middle of interspace 2 edged with diffuse 

 dusky black ; the preapical white spot as on the upperside but not surrounded 

 with blue, continued posteriorly as a transverse series of small postdiscal 

 white spots ; an outer transverse series of white lunules divided by a sinuous 

 black line followed by a terminal black line. Hindwing : basal and postdis- 

 cal areas chestnut-red ; a black spot at base of vein 8 defined by white lines ; 

 a very broad medio-discal white band from costa to dorsum, crossed at apex 

 of interspace 1« by a transverse black mark, beyond the middle of inter- 

 space 7 by a broad black bar and, in interspace 7, bordered inwardly by 

 black ; a postdiscal series of small white spots in continuation of those on 

 the forewing ; an inner subterminal series of paired, sub triangular, small 

 white spots, an outer subterminal line of slender white lunules, an interven- 

 ing black sinuous line between the two series and a black terminal line. 

 Cilia of both wings white alternated with black. Antennae, head, thorax 

 and abdomen dark brown ; beneath, the palpi and thorax white, the abdo- 

 men black banded white. Female is polymorphic, that is, has several 

 different forms. 



First form.— Upperside: rich tawny. Forewing: the costa, the apical 

 half of the wing and the termen black, the inner margin of this 

 black area follows a line crossing the cell obliquely and curving round to 

 near the apex of interspace 1« ; a white spot beyond apex of cell ; an 

 oblique band of elongate white spots, a more transverse, short, subapical 

 series of three or four much smaller white spots, and an inner and an outer 

 subterminal transverse series of very small, slender, white lunules. Hind- 

 wing : a transverse round spot in centre of interspace 7, a dusky spot show- 

 ing through from underside at end of cell, the terminal margin broadly 

 black, the latter traversed by two transverse series of paired, white, small 

 lunules. Cilia of both wings alternated white and black. Underside : paler 

 tawny yellow, the disc of the forewing deeper tawny ; the markings are 

 much as on the upperside but differ as follows : — Forewing : three white 

 spots along the anterior margin of cell, the black on the apical area beyond 



