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Show 1893.] BUTTERFLIES FROM THE ISLAND OF ST. THOMAS. 555 occupies the apical portion of the wing; one large transparent spot is distinctly marked between the first and second median nervules. Hind wing black, with a well-defined band of orange-red crossing the discal portion from the costal margin to the inner margin; this is followed by a black border along the hind margin. Base of wing with a few indistinctly marked black spots. Underside.-Fore wing. Similar in colour and markings to the upperside, but lighter. Hind wing. Similar to the upper surface but much paler, the black spots at the base of the wing being much more forcibly indicated. The red band much more subdued in tint. Hab. St. Nicolau. Expanse 2 inches. ACRiEA INSULARIS, Sp. n. Allied to A. bonasia, Fabr., but easily distinguished by the colour of the fore wing. Fore wing. General colour brownish black, relieved by spots of orange-red. This species has two small red spots near the apex in place of the large oval patch of A. bonasia. Near tbe end of the discoidal cell is a spot, followed by a larger one between the first and second median nervules; directly under the latter nervule, while somewhat nearer to the hind margin, is a small triangular-shaped spot of red. The middle of the cell has a small ovate spot of orange somewhat paler in tint. Hind wing. With a broad brownish-black border on the hind margin extending along the costa and occupying the base of the wing. The whole of the central portion of the wing orange-red, becoming pale yellow below the first median nervule. This portion of the wing has several small black spots, with a larger one marking the middle of the discoidal cell; there is one spot between the submedian nervule and the first median nervule, followed by two minute spots placed one above the other below the first-named nervule. At the end of the cell are three spots varying in size between the third median, radial, and second subcostal nervules, and just above the middle spot there is another situated in the fork of the radial and the first discocellular nervule. Underside. Very similar to that of A. newtoni, the markings of the upper surface being plainly indicated on the underside. Hab. St. Nicolau. Expanse 2 inches. Subfam. NYMPHALIN^. JUNONIA SINUATA. Precis sinuata, Plotz, Stett. ent. Zeit. p. 477 (1880). |