350 JOURNAL, BOMBAY NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY, 1891. 



white band on the costa, between which and the broad pure white 

 discal band of the upperside is a short basal pale violet band ; just 

 beyond the broad discal band is a narrow pale violet band, beyond 

 this again is a broad pale violet band, then a narrow straight sub- 

 marginal line. 



AT. nar has no near ally, as far as I am aware ; it is an abundantly 

 distinct as well as beautiful species. It obviously comes into the 

 group containing AT. sankara, Kollar,* N. amba, Moore, N. amboides, 

 Moore, and N. carticouks, Moore, as it has the short basal band 

 on the underside -of the hindwing between the costal and discal 

 bands, which is a marked feature of all these species, and with which 

 also it agrees more or less in size and outline ; but the ochreous - 

 sullied markings of the upperside, and the very purple coloration of 

 the underside, will distinguish AT. nar at a glance from all its allies. 



Described from two examples lately sent to me by Mr. R. 

 Wimberley. It must be very rare, as during the past twelve years I 

 have examined many thousands of butterflies from Port Blair, and 

 these are the first and only specimens I have seen. 



5. EUTHALIA APPIADES, Menetries. 



In the Proceedings of the Entomological Society of London for 

 1890, pp. xi and xii, Colonel Charles Swinhoe gives "Notes on 

 certain species of the genus Euthalia." In this paper he strives to 

 maintain that E. sedeva, Moore, is a good species, and that E. 

 balarama, Moore, is its opposite (male) sex, though in the Proceedings 

 of the Zoological Society of London for 1865, p. 766, Mr. Moore 

 himself placed his sedeva as a synonym of E. appiades, Menetries. 

 Quite recently, while at Oxford, I had an opportunity of seeing the 

 specimens from "Buxar," Bhutan, on which Colonel Swinhoe based 



* I recently had the opportunity of examining what is probably the type specimen, 

 of Limenitis sankara, Kollar, in the Natural History Museum at Vienna, where appa- 

 rently all the type specimens described by Kollar in Hiigel's Reise Kaschmir are to 

 be found. The specimen is a female, and is the species from the Western Himalayas 

 described as N. amba, Moore, in " The Butterflies of India, Burmah and Ceylon," vol. 

 ii, p. 88, n. 308 (1886). Whether the true N. amba, Moore, described from Nepal, and 

 subsequently identified from Yunan by Mr. Moore, is a species distinct from N. sankara, 

 must remain a question for future solution. Till now Neptis sankara has been un- 

 identiBed, as it was placed by Mr. Westwood in " The Genera of Diurnal Lepidoptera," 

 vol. ii, p. 274, n. 6, and by subsequent authors, in the genus Athyma. 



