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wings. Antennw with the shaft brown, ochreous below just before 

 the base of the club ; the club deep black above, paler below, tip 

 ochreous. 



The male differs from the female (previously described erroneously 

 as a male) in its smaller size, darker coloration, smaller spots, espe- 

 cially the uppermost spot of the discal macular band of the f orewing, 

 and in having one diaphanous and one black spot only in the subme- 

 dian interspace instead of two of each, as in the female. 



This species evidently belongs to Mr. Moore's genus Tapena, the 

 male agreeing very well in outline with the male of the type species 

 of that genus, T. thcaitesi, Moore, from Orissa, South India, 

 Ceylon, and Myitta in Burma. In both species, the hind leg 

 of the male is furnished with a very thick tibial bunch of hairs, 

 each one of which is, as seen under a strong lens, strap-shaped, being 

 quite flat, of equal length throughout, and very thin. I have 

 no doubt that " Celcenor-rhinus" buchananii, mihi, also belongs to 

 the genus Tapena, and that, now that both sexes of T. laxmi 

 are known, it will prove to be quite distinct. It appears to 

 me in the highest degree probable that T. laxmi has been described by 

 Mons. Charles Mabille in "La Naturaliste," 1888, p. 98, under the 

 name of Nctroeoryne atilia, from Minahassa in the island of Celebes. 

 ~No copy of this periodical is available to me, but I am led to believe 

 that atilia and laxmi are one and the same species from the de- 

 scription of a local race of the former from Palawan and some other 

 islands of the Philippines, described by Dr. 0. Staudinger under the 

 name of palawana : in "Iris," vol. ii, pp. 157, 165, pi. ii, fig. 11, male 

 (1889). Dr. Staudinger's description and figure applies exactly to 

 my T. laxmi. As " Nctroeoryne^ atilia and" Plesioneura" laxr. ii were 

 described in the same year, it may be difficult to ascertain which 

 name has precedence, should the two species prove to be one. Dr. 

 Staudino-er very correctly points out that this butterfly cannot be 

 included in the Australian genus Netrocoryne, Felder, as that genus 

 has the costa of the forewing of the male folded over as in the 

 Indian genus Lobocla, Moore, and many extra-Indian genera. 



Described from a single example in the collection of Mr. H. J. 

 Elwes, obtained by Mr. W. Doherty in Perak in the Malay Penin- 

 sula, in January or February, 1890. 



