﻿476 
  Colonel 
  C. 
  Swinhoe 
  on 
  new 
  sjjecies 
  of 
  

  

  variegated, 
  the 
  first 
  two 
  pale 
  blue, 
  the 
  next 
  two 
  brown 
  aud 
  blue, 
  

   the 
  remainder 
  more 
  or 
  less 
  blue. 
  Fore 
  wings 
  with 
  the 
  veins 
  

   thickly 
  marked 
  with 
  greenish 
  brown, 
  running 
  into 
  the 
  interspaces, 
  

   leaving 
  a 
  few 
  pale 
  sulphur-yellow 
  basal 
  streaks, 
  and 
  a 
  number 
  of 
  

   elongated 
  spots 
  of 
  the 
  same 
  ground 
  colour, 
  decreasing 
  in 
  size 
  from 
  

   the 
  centre. 
  Hind 
  wings 
  pale 
  sulphur-yellow 
  ; 
  costa, 
  and 
  outer 
  border 
  

   to 
  the 
  submedian 
  vein 
  blue-green, 
  bright 
  blue 
  in 
  some 
  lights, 
  

   attenuated 
  hindwards, 
  and 
  running 
  in 
  on 
  the 
  veins 
  ; 
  abdominal 
  

   border 
  limited 
  by 
  the 
  subcostal 
  vein, 
  bright 
  orange-yellow. 
  Under 
  

   side 
  : 
  wings 
  as 
  above, 
  with 
  all 
  the 
  markings 
  pale 
  bright 
  blue 
  ; 
  

   pectus 
  pale 
  yellow, 
  thorax 
  blue, 
  abdomen 
  with 
  pale 
  yellow 
  broad 
  

   bands, 
  legs 
  black 
  with 
  blue 
  scales, 
  femora 
  with 
  pale 
  yellow 
  stripes. 
  

   Expanse 
  of 
  wings, 
  3 
  in. 
  

  

  One 
  specimen. 
  

  

  A 
  very 
  handsome 
  insect, 
  allied 
  to 
  M. 
  virginalis, 
  Herr.- 
  

   Scliaff., 
  the 
  type 
  of 
  the 
  genus, 
  but 
  widely 
  separated 
  by 
  

   its 
  dark 
  fore 
  wings, 
  and 
  metallic-blue 
  border 
  to 
  hind 
  

   wings. 
  There 
  is 
  an 
  example 
  from 
  Assam 
  in 
  the 
  Oxford 
  

   Museum. 
  

  

  Gynautocera, 
  Guer., 
  Mag. 
  Zool., 
  1830, 
  p. 
  12. 
  

   7. 
  Gynautocera 
  zara, 
  n. 
  sp. 
  

   ^. 
  Antennse, 
  head, 
  body, 
  and 
  wings 
  black; 
  shaft 
  of 
  the 
  

   antennae 
  with 
  metallic-green 
  scales 
  on 
  the 
  basal 
  half 
  above 
  ; 
  head 
  

   with 
  a 
  few 
  crimson 
  irrorations, 
  a 
  thin 
  crimson 
  line 
  behind 
  it 
  ; 
  

   thorax 
  with 
  a 
  duplex 
  crimson 
  spot 
  in 
  fi-ont, 
  and 
  a 
  larger 
  one 
  

   behind 
  ; 
  abdomen 
  with 
  crimson 
  tip. 
  Fore 
  wings 
  with 
  pale 
  marks 
  

   in 
  the 
  interspaces 
  on 
  the 
  outer 
  half, 
  as 
  in 
  G. 
  2}(tpi^ionaria, 
  but 
  

   more 
  conspicuous. 
  Hind 
  wings 
  with 
  the 
  apical 
  portion 
  and 
  all 
  

   the 
  costal 
  space 
  above 
  the 
  subcostal 
  vein 
  very 
  pale, 
  in 
  parts 
  almost 
  

   whitish 
  ; 
  a 
  pale 
  bluish 
  white 
  discal 
  space 
  where 
  G. 
  papilionaria 
  

   has 
  the 
  discal 
  patch, 
  not 
  white 
  with 
  blue 
  borders, 
  as 
  in 
  that 
  species, 
  

   but 
  of 
  a 
  uniform 
  dirty 
  bluish 
  white, 
  with 
  dentations 
  running 
  along 
  

   the 
  veins 
  almost 
  to 
  the 
  outer 
  margins. 
  Under 
  side 
  with 
  the 
  fore 
  

   wings 
  without 
  any 
  cyaneous 
  reflections 
  ; 
  hind 
  wings 
  with 
  the 
  

   apical 
  space 
  broadly 
  pale 
  ; 
  a 
  crimson 
  patch 
  at 
  base 
  of 
  fore 
  wings 
  ; 
  

   thorax 
  and 
  abdomen 
  crimson, 
  with 
  black 
  bands 
  ; 
  legs 
  black. 
  

   Expanse 
  of 
  wings, 
  Sh 
  in. 
  

  

  One 
  specimen. 
  

  

  Allied 
  to 
  G. 
  papilionaria, 
  Guer., 
  but 
  differs 
  con- 
  

   siderably 
  from 
  it 
  in 
  the 
  head 
  being 
  black 
  instead 
  of 
  crim- 
  

   son, 
  in 
  the 
  two 
  crimson 
  spots 
  on 
  thorax 
  above, 
  in 
  the 
  

   absence 
  of 
  cyaneous 
  reflections 
  below, 
  in 
  the 
  pale 
  apical 
  

  

  