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the inner edge and somewhat smaller, at the anal angle, and a series of evanescent blackish bars 

 parallel with the posterior margin ; in the female the violet colour is confined to the base and 

 disk of the fore wings, being covered with pale silvery irrorations, while the anterior and pos- 

 terior margins, and the base and disk of the hinder wings, are pure brown ; the anal ocellus in 

 the posterior margin of the latter is of an intense black tint, and surrounded by a regularly 

 defined narrow annular iris of a saturated silky white ; the extreme anal spot, as well as the ocelli, 

 forming the posterior series are surrounded by pale evanescent white rings ; a faint macular band 

 of dusky white also extends along the inner edge of the posterior series ; the base of the hinder 

 wings is covered with long silky hairs : underneath the wings, in both sexes, are gray with a 

 shade of Isabella yellow, and marked with three strigse, extending parallel with the posterior 

 margin through both pairs, the interior one being more pronounced in the hinder wings and form- 

 ing a broad white fascia ; between the marginal strigse and the base, the surface of the wings 

 bears successive slightly interrupted marks, consisting individually of several contiguous undu- 

 lated bands, of which the medial one is white, the next adjoining, on each side, brown, with a 

 tint somewhat more saturated than the ground colour, and the exterior ones very narrow and 

 white : of these compound marks there are three on the fore wings, the anterior one at a small 

 distance from the base, the second on the disk, the third near the marginal series; the two former 

 are very short, the latter extends entirely across the wing : the surface of the hinder wings bears 

 contiguous fascise similar to those on the fore wings, but touching each other by means of several 

 additional intermediate strigse : there are two anal ocelli corresponding in form and character with 

 those on the upper surface ; they are disposed on a transverse rufous-orange band, the posterior 

 one being bounded externally by a narrow silvery lunule, the other bearing a silvery speck on 

 the extremity which is directed to the other ocellus. Tails, dark above, gray underneath and 

 at the tip. Body above and underneath corresponding in colour with the wings. Antenna 

 brown annulated with white. 



Our museum contains a single female, and seven male specimens collected chiefly in the cultivated districts 

 of the neighbourhood of Surakarta. The larva was once found, as far as I recollect, on a leguminous plant, 

 but from its similarity in habit to the larvae of other Theclce, its peculiarities were not noted. With the excep- 

 tion of Cynthia Cardui, which has a still wider range, this is the only indigenous Javanese species of diurnal 

 Lepidoptera, which is also found in Europe. From a careful comparison of individuals contained in Mr. 

 Haworth's and my own collections, and of its representation given by Hiibner, it appears, that in these 

 distant countries, the species agrees, in the most minute particulars, as far as regards markings and form, 

 but a slight diversity is observed in the colour. In the European specimens the under surface of the wings is 

 gray or brownish gray, the brown strigae are more saturated, the white marginal lines are more brilliant, and 

 the anterior marginal band is broader and of a purer white. In the Javanese specimens the ground colour 

 has a tendency to Isabella yellow, and the strigae are more faint and delicate. In size the specimens from 

 both countries entirely agree. 



16. Lycsena Damoetes. Alee supra maris pallidd violacece limbo fusco ; fceminse fuscce basi discoque 

 cyaneis argenteo irroratis ; utriusque sexus ocelli anales duo insignes iride sericeo-albd cincti, 

 fiemina insuper serie posticd ocellorum obsoletorum cum serie interiore macularum cuneatarum : 

 subtus cinereo-Jlavicantes strigis tribus marginalibus interiore latiore et vividiore, singuke insuper 

 strigis undulatis quinatim fasciculatis, fascia interiore anticarum obsoletipre, loco ejus nonnun- 

 quam annulo obsoleto basilari ; posticce ocellis analibus duobus extus punctis aureis ornatis, 



m exteriore 



