1894.] L. de Niceville — Btitterflies from the Indo-Malayan region. 3 



reaching from the inner angle to the lower discoidal nervule ; the area 

 enclosed by the coalescing of the hastate markings forms a series of 

 six rounded spots regularly increasing in size, the anterior spot the 

 smallest, the posterior one the largest, these spots are of a slightly 

 darker shade than the pale fulvous apical area, but not so dark as the 

 dark, rich reddish-fulvous of the rest of the wing. Hindwing with, the 

 abdominal and outer margins rather paler than the rest of the wing ; a 

 sabmarginal series of seven black markings, of which the anterior one is 

 a small lunule with its concave edge directed towards the base of the 

 wing, the next five markings are hastate-shaped,* increasing in size from 

 the anterior one to the posterior one in the first median interspace, the 

 seventh, posterior mai'king somewhat quadi'ate in form, and occupying the 

 whole width of the submedian interspace ; a fine black anteciliary thread. 

 Underside, both wings of a reddish-fulvous of not quite so ricb a shade 

 as on the upperside. Forewing with a small irregular black marking 

 towards the base of the cell; a highly irregular and ziz-zag black line 

 crosses the middle of the cell and extends both to the costa and to the 

 submedian nervure, the posterior portion of the line is broken and 

 shifted outwardly below the median nervure ; the upper, middle, and 

 anterior half of the lower disco-cellular nervule defined by a black line ; 

 an irregular discal black line from the costa to the submedian nervure, 

 just touching the lower end of the cell ; beyond the line is a series of five 

 somewhat cordate, reddish ocelli, each ocellus centred with a wliitish 

 lujiule and bounded by a fine whitish and then a fine black line, the 

 four anterior ocelli equal-sized, the fifth posterior one in the first median 

 interspace a little larger; beyond these ocelli is another irregular black 

 line from the costa to the inner margin, this line is narrower and paler 

 than the discal one ; the space between these two lines is anteriorly some- 

 what paler than the rest of the wing ; a submarginal nebulous straight 

 blackish baud ; a very fine anteciliary black line. Hindwing with an 

 irregular sub-basal and a discal black line, the latter posteriorly curving 

 round and almost meeting the posterior end of the former, both termina- 

 ting above the anal angle on the submedian nervure ; a series of five 

 ocelli on the disc similar to those in the forewing, the posterior one the 

 largest and rather misshapen, the anterior one the next largest, the three 

 in the middle nearly equal sized; the outer discal fulvous line and 



* The late Professor J. 0. Westwood well described these peculiar and charac- 

 teristic markings of the genus Stichophthalma as being built up of a much 

 curved lunule on the margin coalescing inwardly with a spear-shaped spot. To me 

 these markings have a curious likeness to the black silhouette of the head and 

 shoulders of a human figure, especially the third marking from the anal angle of 

 the hindwing in the specimen here figured. 



