Rhopalocera exotica ; being illustraions of new, rare, and unfigured species of butterflies . Subovata, , Novitates Zoologies?, Vol. I., p. 570(July, 1894). Exp. Rather more than 1 inch. 3/alr. Upperside. More violaceous-piu-ple than II. Inteusa and //. wings with the costal margin narrowly, the apex more broadly, andouter margin more narrowly bordered with brown-black. Cilia on both wingswhite, conspicuously tipped with black at the ends of the veins. Anterior wingsbroader than in the above-described species, and slightly convex on the outermargin. Posterior wings
Rhopalocera exotica ; being illustraions of new, rare, and unfigured species of butterflies . Subovata, , Novitates Zoologies?, Vol. I., p. 570(July, 1894). Exp. Rather more than 1 inch. 3/alr. Upperside. More violaceous-piu-ple than II. Inteusa and //. wings with the costal margin narrowly, the apex more broadly, andouter margin more narrowly bordered with brown-black. Cilia on both wingswhite, conspicuously tipped with black at the ends of the veins. Anterior wingsbroader than in the above-described species, and slightly convex on the outermargin. Posterior wings narrowly edged with black. Underside rather brownish-white, outer margin very narrowly white, tipped with black at the ends of the veins. Female scarcely differs from the same sex of //. Intensa and //. ///«.!, buttlie pale middle space extends rather more towards the base, and the ciliaart marked conspicuously with black at the end of the veins. Hab. Huml)oldt Bay. In the CoUeetioDs of the Hon. Walter Eotlisehild and Mr. H. Grose-Smith. ^ in: :tal uw(DMmmM THYSONOTIS VII. Ic. Horace Knigtt del et litii V/est Newman imc 1. 2. THYSONOTIS SULEIMA, c? 3. ? „ „ 2 4. 5. „ ZULEIKA. 3. 6 „ ,. ?? 7 8. „ ALBULA cf. 9. THYSONOTIS AKBULA. j. „ GOELINTJS <?. 12. „ „ 5- „ ISIERINE. 6 LYC^NID^ (Oriental). PLATE XXI. XXIV.—THYSONOTIS SULEIMA. ^. Figs. 1, 2. ? . Fig. 3. Tlijisonotis Suleiiiia, H. Grose-Smith, Auuals and Magazine of NaturalHistory, Ser. 7, Vol. II., p. 405 (November, 1898). Exp. 1-| inches. Male. Upperside more greenish-blue than T. Zuhiha, Grose-Smith;anterior wings with the costal margin at the bas5 and the outer margin morebroadly black, and the central white band is not irrorated by blue scales. On the UNDERSIDE of the anterior wings the blue band which traverses theouter marginal black area is narrower along the outer margin tlian in T. ZtdciJxa;on the posterior wings the inner edge of the submarginal blue band is lunulateb
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