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HHQPALQCERA MALA VAN A. 



nernile and a minute spot on each side of third median nervule ; two narrow ftubmarginal bluish-grey 

 fascia.', bordered on each side with fuscous* Posterior wings reddish ochraceous, crossed by a broad white 

 fascia, commencing at costal nervure whore it is broadest, mid terminating near the interna) nervure where 

 it is narrowest, and which is inwardly straight and anteriorly margined with fuscouB ; it is outwardly notched 

 at ttpper subcostal nervule, and then rounded to eubmedinn nervure, where it is somewhat prolonged towards 

 anal angle, and there contains an angulatcd black spot, and also an irregular black spot situate between 

 the costal nervure and upper subcostal nervule; a basiil black apot before the precostal nervule, a 

 sulmiargiiuil series of small bluish-white spots [daced between the nervules, and submarginal fascias as on 

 anterior wings. Body above concolorous with wings, and with the head spotted with white ; body beneath 

 fuscous, spotted with white ; legs fuscous, greyish white beueaih ; palpi lexekuling apices) white beneath. 



Female- Wings above reddish ochraceous. Anterior wings with rather less than apical half, 

 beginning at base, gradually widening across apex of cell and narrowly terminating at posterior angle, 

 black, containing a waved series of five white spots placed between the ncrvules, the first smallest and 

 linear, the second and third subquadrate, fourth and fifth more or less rounded ; this series in preceded by 

 about two small subcostal white spots and followed by a waved series of four small hulmpical white spots, the 

 two uppermost largest ; two submarginal series of small bluish-white spots, not distinctly extending beyond 

 the third median norvule, and fringe alternately greyish. Posterior wings with a large central black spot 

 beneath the costal nervure, and a marginal black fascia preceded by some small paler and indistinct 

 spots, and containing a series of lunate ochraceous spots placed between the nervules, bluish at anal 

 angle ; fringe as on anterior wings. Anterior wings beneath as above, but with the apex beyond the 

 transverse spots ochraceous and not black; posterior wings with the disk whitish; a basal spot and a 

 central subcostal spot as in male, and a black spot at end of cell j a broad white marginal fascia containing 

 three waved black lines, and preceded by a series of small white spots. 



Exp. wings, 3 G2 to 70 millim. ; 9 7'2 to Bo millim. 



Hab. — Africa; Senegal; Congo; Gabon (Mabille) ; Angola ;Monteiro — l)ruce # ); Natal; Damaraland 

 (Trimen) ; Delagoa Bay (coll. Dist.) ; Abyssinia (Antinori — Obcithur + ). — Madagascar (Boisduvali. — Ceylon 

 (Moore). — Xicobar Islands; Nankowri (Wood-Mas. & do Nic.) — Malay Peninsula ; Province Welleslcy (coll. 

 Dist.) — Sumatra (Snellen). — Java ; Batavia (Snellen). — Celebes (Snellen) —Siam ; Chentaboon (Bruce \). — 

 Formosa (Brit. Mus.)— America ; Florida [Edwards §). — Cuba (Lucas). — Antigua (coll. Hewits.) — Trinidad. || 



Males of this species differ iu size and also in the shape of the white markings, as the 

 two Province Welleslcy specimens here figured (Tab- XII., tigs. 9 & 11) sufficiently testify. 



This species in its female sex affords one of the best and strongest examples of 

 11 mimicry," it hemg a true and startling mimic of Ihimits chrysippus, a protected species which 

 is found -with it in its different habitats, excluding America, where, however, it is evidently an 

 introduce! spoeh's.lT According to Boisduval, ** this resemblance is even found at first sight, 

 in the larval of the two species, which in South Africa feed upon the leaves of the Oleander. ft 



* Proc, Zool. Soo. 1B75. p. 44)9. f AnnaL del Mus. Civ, di St. Nat. di Genovft, vol, xv. p, 167, n. 49 (1880), 



I Proc. ZwL Soc 1674, p. 106. 



^ 1 Papilio,' vol. i. p. BU (1881). This species is recorded as 23. botiita, but as Drury's figure is referred to, no 

 misapprehension can arise. 



|| Mr. Mebloia inform a me In- lms received the species from Trinidad. 



^ Mr. Meldola (Ami. & Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. fi, vol, i. p, 157}, in communicating sntuo notes from that excellent observer 

 Fritz MUUer, and in reference to this fact, observes that it is "quite conceivable" that the mimicked species {D.chrtfuijypuit) may 

 have become altogether extinct. On the other hand, it seems move probable that the- Hypol tut tins is tin iutrndiu'ed species 

 than to suppose that Mich a widely distributed Datuud should have become extinct over such a wide area, in wliieh other 

 tawny species of the genus find an extensive and congenial home, the food -plant (Aselejua*) being the same for tho different 

 species. Moreover, wo. have record of die migratory habita of this Hij/tolimnit*. Mr. Newman (* Entomologist,' vol.iii. p. 226) 

 recorded the species under the name of D. bolina t Boisd., as having readied a ship during a cyclone, about six hundred miles 

 from the "West Coast of Africa, and two hundred miles from tho Cape do Verd Islands. 



** Faun. Ent. Madag. p. 40. ft Trimen, tthop. Air. Austr. p. 156. 



