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NYMPHALIS TIRIDATES.
PLATE XVII. Fig. 2 and 3.
Pap. Tiridates, Fabr. Cramer, Pl. 161, fig. A, B; Drury's Insects, iii. Pl. 23, fig. 1, 2; Donov. Insects of India, Part iii. Pl. 2, fig. 3.
Extent of the wings nearly four inches, the surface very dark blue approaching to black, the nervures brown; beyond the middle are two transverse rows of small round spots of pale blue, and along the hinder margin a series of small dull yellow crescents. The ground colour beneath is brownish-grey, somewhat glossy; the superior wings having a few transverse waved streaks of black edged with blue towards the base, then a few yellow streaks succeeded by a pretty regular row of yellow spots, and on the internal angle are too black spots, partially or wholly surrounded with blue and surmounted by yellow crescents: under wings marked in a manner somewhat similar to the upper pair at the base; the hinder margin with a continuous row of violet ocellated spots, preceded and followed by a row of yellow lunules; tails rather short and slender, brown; body dark brown above with four whitish points on the head, the under side inclining to yellow, antennæ black, the palpi yellow beneath.
Found in the islands of Java and Amboina.
