468 THE CRUISE OF TEE ' CUBAQOA.' 



Genus Danais, Latreille. 

 PLATE XLVIII. Figs. 1, 2. 



DANAIS INSOLATA, Butler. 

 Ann. mid Mac/, Nat. Hist. s. i, vol. v., p. 360, n. 2 (1870). 



$ , 2 Wings above brown, the disc obsoletely streaked with 

 fulvous between the nervures ; front wings with the external area 

 Snow-white, divided by the uerVUres (especially at anal angle), 

 interrupted by an oblong costal patch, and separated at apex into 

 five marginal points ; hind wings with a white marginal band, 

 separated by the nervures into eight subdivided square spots ; 

 margin black. 



Wings below paler ; hind wings more fulvous than above, the 

 marginal spots entire ; expanse of wings 2 inches 11 lines. 



Two specimens {$ , § ). South Sea Islands. Coll. Brit. Museum. 



^enus DiademA, Boisduval. 

 PLATE XLVIII. Figs. 3, 4. 



BIADSMA BOLINA^ Linnceus, Ya.r. 



$ Very like the female of the variety P. Lasinassa Fabr., but 

 •with the black suffusion of front wings confined to the discoidal 

 and anal areas ; hind wings without dusky scaling on disc, and 

 with central spot pearly white ; it differs below in being paler, 



