156 EIIOPALOCERA MALAYANA. 



costa basali posticaium iiivea ; alitcr vf kit supra : corpus csruleo-albidum ; pedibus ocbreis ; autennis 

 fen-ugiueis." 



"Exp. alar. unc. 2t5." 



Hab.— ;>ralay rcninsula ; " Singapore (coll. ItoliLTts)." 



This is evideutly closely allied to the precediug species. 

 12. Neptis eurynome, i-ar. mamaja. (Tab. XVI., tig. 14 2 .) 



Xrptis I'liri/iioiiu-. AVestwood, Don. lus. Oliiua, p. 0(5, t. 35, fiy. -1 (184"2). 



Xepth imtmajn, Bull. Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2, Zool. vol. i. p. 541, u. 1, t. Ixix, fig. 3 (1877). 



:\rale and Female. Wings above closely resembling tbe preceding species A', (hiri/oihaiu, but tbe pale 

 markings more or less tinged with lemon-colour (very strongly so in tbe specimen figured), tbe spot at tbe 

 end of tbe cell on anterior wings smaller, but variable in size, and tbe narrow pale submarginal linear 

 fascia to posterior wings almost obsolete. Wings beneatb warm ocbraceous ; markings resembling tbose 

 of A', diiryodana, but more or less tinged witb lemon-colour as above, and witb tbe outer pale discal fascia 

 to tbe posterior wings more macular tban in tbat species. 



Exp. wings, ^ and 2 , 5U to 57 millim. 



Hab.*— Malay Peninsula; Province Wellesley (coll. Dist. and Saiier) ; Malacca (Pinwill— Brit. Mus.). 



Typical specimens of A', cunjuome, localised as from N. India (.s/r) and China, which 

 I have examined, appear to be sufficiently distinct from the European A', accris, Lep., to have 

 specific differentiation, though I consider the .V. iiunnajn, Butl., to l)e better expressed as a 

 variety only of Prof. Westwood's species, f es])ecially as I have received another very close 

 variety from North Borneo. Even in my Province Wellesley specimens considerable variation 

 is found, such as the basal cellular streak of the anterior wings being either broken, or entire 

 as in the figure here given. 



Genus ATHYMA. 



Alhyimi, Wcstwood, Gen. Diurn. Lop. p. 272 (1850); Feld. Neues Lepid. p. 31, n. 75 (1801). 



Tbis genus is allied to Xqitin, I from wliicb it differs, as clearly pointed out by Prof. Westwood, in 

 baving its species of a " larger size, more robust structure, (witb) larger and shorter wings, more squamose 

 and obtuse i)alpi,"' and especially (as pointed out in tbe synopsis bere given) by tbe costal nervure of the 

 posterior wings extending to tbeir apex. Tbe anterior wings have tbe costal nervure robust, extending to 

 about half tbe length of tbe costa ; first and second subcostal nervules emitted before tbe end of cell, tbe 

 first at about two-tbirds of its length, and tbe second a liitle before its apex, tbe third arising between end of 

 cell and apex of wing, but nearer to tbe first tban to tbe last ; fourth and fifth bifurcating between tbe base 

 of tbird and apex of wing. Lower disco-cellular nervule either more or less obsolete and leaving tbe cell 

 practically open,§ or present and distinct, though very slender, and subereet, thus closing cell, j, 



This, like Nejitis, is another extensive genus, but with a more restricted geographical 

 distribution. Thus it is absent from Europe, and also apparently from the Ethiopian region. 



'■'■ Of var. inamaja only. 



f Mr. Butler's description is "Nearly allied to N. eurynome, but always to be distinguished by the narrower exterco- 

 (liscal band of white spots in secondaries; colouring below rather brighter than in N. eurynome." 

 \ Of the (/»;-yi)i/((»« gionp. § As in ^4. ^;e/-i'((S. j| h.s hi A. nefte. 



