Rhopalocera exotica ; being illustraions of new, rare, and unfigured species of butterflies . d, outwardly convexbetween the veins, the black spot between the lowest submedian nervule andthe submedian nervure being almost bifid. Female. Upperside brownish-black, with narrow whitish fringes. A creamy-white band runs from the base of the anterior wings along the median nervureand its branches for three-quarters of the length of the wing. Underside as in the male, except that the submarginal row of black spotson the posterior wings are larger. Hab. Humboldt Bay, New Guinea (, 1892, Dohe
Rhopalocera exotica ; being illustraions of new, rare, and unfigured species of butterflies . d, outwardly convexbetween the veins, the black spot between the lowest submedian nervule andthe submedian nervure being almost bifid. Female. Upperside brownish-black, with narrow whitish fringes. A creamy-white band runs from the base of the anterior wings along the median nervureand its branches for three-quarters of the length of the wing. Underside as in the male, except that the submarginal row of black spotson the posterior wings are larger. Hab. Humboldt Bay, New Guinea (, 1892, Doherty) ; Stephansort,New Guinea (Captain Cayley Webster, 1894). In the Collections of the Honourable Walter Rothschild and of Mr. H. Grose Smith. Allied to T. Cepheis, Druce, but the male is larger, with broader and more rounded wings,and the outer margins more broadly black; on the undersurface the metallic colouring ismoregolden and extended. In the female the pale area on the anterior wings is narrower than inthat species, and does not extend so far towards the outer margin. HOLOCHILA I,. HoraeKrug^il. del etiith, i,2. HOLOCHILA , , 9, 5. „ „ ? 11,12 „ 6,7. „ SILlCE,A,<:r. 13. „ „ ? 8. „ „ ?. „ DIMORPHUS, (?. Wes t. Nev/maji iinjo LYC^NID^ (Oriental). PLATE I. I.—IIOLOCHILA TPJNGA. i . Figs. 1, 2. Holochila Truifja, H. Grose-Smith, Novitates Zoologies, I., p. 581(July, 1894). Exp. 1% inches. Male. Upperside bright blue, with the outer margins greyish-black, theinner margin of the posterior wings broadly grey. The anterior wings aresomewhat violaceous. Underside silvery white. Anterior wings with two grey lines across thedisc from a little below the costal margin, towards the apex, to a little abovethe submedian ner^^lre, where the lines converge, and almost join. Posteriorwings with two rows of irregular grey lines across the disc, and a transverse rowof grey li
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