NYMPHALINAE 
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CETHOSIA 
9 , Above as in male: basal areas red-brown instead of orange-red. 
Bkxeatii as in male. 
Loc. Cape York 10 11. Claudie R. 11. Cooktown. Cairns 6 7 11. Kuranda 1 4 7 9 10 11. Ingham 
5 9. Townsville. 25 69 . 
6 '. imperialis Butler is a synonym of cUrysippe. 
71. Oethosia penthesilea Cramer. (Java). 
We only know the Timor race from Friihstorfer^s description: the Australian subspecies appears 
to be identical. .— , 
71a. C. penthesilea paksha Fruhstorfer. Fig.(^60,) 61. 
Stettiner Entomologischo Zeitschrift 1905, p. 105. 
d'. Above. Forewing black: a bi’oad basal area, reaching cell and along dorsum almost to lornus, 
orange: a series of ill-defined cell bars and discal spots, black: a broad band from costa at t\votliirds 
to area 3 near termen, white: a series of faint suba 2 :>ical dots and a faint interrupted terminal line, 
white. Ilindwing orange: a series of obscure discal streaks and a series of subterminal spots, black; 
termen black witli a strongly dentate narrow terminal line, white. 
Beneath. Forewing dull red: a series of bars across cell, black edged bluish grey; a discal band, 
bluish grey edged black: white band as above: a series of irregular elongate subterminal simts, black 
edged bluish grey: a narrow dentate terminal line, white. Ilindwing dull red: a series of irregular 
interrupted transverse broad basal lines, black edged bluish grey; a discal band and a narrow subter¬ 
minal band, bluish grey edged with a series of irregular spots, black ringed bluish grey; termen dull 
black with a strongly dentate narrow terminal line, Avhite. 
9 . Above as in male: basal area orange-brown: hindwing with a series of postcellular streaks between 
veins, black. 
Beneath as in male. 
Loc, Daly B. 4. Darwin 1 2 3 4 5 S 9 10 11 12. Melville Is. 240 "^ S Q. 
We have several aberrant examjdes Avhich have lost, or nearly lost, the broad white bar of fore¬ 
wing: the dark spots and bands beneath are broader and the bluish grey edges narrower. One example 
has tlie Avhole of the markings beneath very much obscured. 
Genus CYNTHIA Fabricius. 
Illiger^s Magazine, vi, 1807, p. 281. 
Antennae more than half the length of costa, with clubs long and gradual. Eyes smooth. Forewing 
with vein 10 from subcostal at end of cell or from vein 7 just beyond end of cell; cell not quite 
Fig. R. Wing venation of 
Cynthia ada, male. 
half the length of wing and closed, with lower edge much shorter than upper edge. Hindwing with 
cel much longer than half the length of wing, and closed by a fold of the Aving membrane only: vein 
3 and vein 4 arising well apart: termen produced to a tooth at vein 4. (Fig. R.). 
Type. Cynihia arsinoe Cramer, from Amboina. 
A genus of large strongly built butterflies ranging from India in the west to the Solomon Islands in 
