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forni differs scarcely in any other character than in the extremities of the veins of 

 the forcwiiit; being broader white. In the extent of the blue-black colour on the 

 liindwiiig hellconides sur|>asses most specimens of typical ewjenia. The white fringe 

 to the hindwings with very small black dots, and the rather evenly suffused basal 

 two-thirds of the same wing on which the thin white veins are rather sharply picked 

 out, distinguish heliconides easily from dark specimens of evgenin and fuscipennis. 



K. J. 



3. iV«iv/iO)W(-type. Here belong two forms, marmorea W'lk. and hliiiuvrnn 

 Moore, which are structurally the same and differ only in the colour of the hindwing; 

 intergradations are not known to us. 



The antennae of the male of bliawanti are thicker than those of euf/enia, and the 

 tine hairs near the base and the apex of each joint are mor(> prolonged, forming 

 a basal and an apical row which join each other just below the scaled dorsal portion 

 of the joint. In this character N. hhnvau'i and rnannoren are nearly related with 

 most Asota; there are, however, no lateral impressions on the joints in Xeochera. 

 The ten to twelve terminal joints are longer than broad, esjiecially the four last 

 ones; thence towards the base the joints become broader than long. In iht- fi'vutle 

 the fine hairs are all short and of even length, and the antennae are thinner than in 

 the 'iiiiile. 



The claspers (PI. IV. fig. 30) resemble more those of Asota than of Xeochern 

 euqenia and inops, being broadest towards the apex and having almost the shape of 

 a shoe-sole ; on the inside they are thickly hair\\ The harpe is very slender and 

 long; see PI. IV. fig. 30. ' K. .1. 



55. Neochera marmorea Walker. 



fTi/pm mtirmorea Walker, Lep. Hel. B. M. Vll. p. I(i74 (18,")G) (Silliet) ; H.amps., Jfnihs of IniU<i 



I. p. 498. n. lliU (1894) (Ex p. ; lociditks partly erroneous). 

 Neochera marmorea, Butler, Tr. Ent. Soc. Loml. p. .329 (187:')) (.Syw. e.r p.) : id., ///. Ti/p. Lep. 



net. n. M. V.p. 43 ((J, nee ? ). t. 87. f. 10 (J) (1881) ; Snell., 'Tijdsrhr. r. Eiit. XXXI. p. 121. 



n. 5 (1888) ; Kirby, Cat. Lep. Het. I. p. .-590. u. 2 (1891) (Ex p.) : Swinh., Cat. Lep. IM. Oxf. 



I. p. 84. n. 376 (1892) (Silhet). 



This insect is known from Northern India (Silhet, the Kliasia and Naga Hills), 

 and is in Lower Burma, the Shan States, Tenasserim, Malacca, and on the (ireater 

 Sunda Islands represented by N. bhawana Moore. 



The abdomen of mitrmuren has, at least on the basal segments, three dorsal and 

 two ventral rows of black spots, as alreadv stated bv Walker. The lateral spots of 

 marm&rea which stand near the lateral edge of the dorsal plate of the segment are 

 wanting in eugenia and inops. Those lateral spots mentioned under N. eut/enin 

 affinis stand on the pleural piece of the somites and are also present in marmorea. 



Walker's descri])tion gives the essential characters as regards the colour: " Head 

 black, with white bands; . . . abdomen witii three rows of black dots; underside 

 with lateral black dots; . . . hindwings white from interior border to the disk." 



In the Tring Museum froTn the Khasia and Naga Hills. K. ■'. 



5(i. Neochera bhawana Moore. 



Nraeliera hhairaiin Jloore, Cat. L.p. Ii,.<. .Uit.i. E. I. C. 11. p. 29."). u. G78. t. 7«. f. 4 ( J ) (18.".9) 

 (.lava) ; But!., Tr.Enl. NV. /,o«rf. p. 328(187a) (.I.-iva) : Snell., Tij<hel,r.r. Enl.XWI. p. 121. 

 n. 2 (1888) (Java, Sumatra) ; Swinh., Cat. Lep. Ilel. Oxf. 1. p. 8o. n. 381 (1892) (Borneo, 

 Singapore). 



The white colour of the posterior region of the hindwing of mnrmorea is in 



