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series, and the pale fuscous submarginal fascia; above violaceous beneath, and margined inwardly and 

 narrowly with fuscous ; abdominal margin greenish ; fringe of both wings as above, and anterior 

 ■wings ornamented with a number of fuscous streaks and spots. Jiody above concolorous with the wings ; 

 thorax with an anterior transverse bluish-white fascia, and abdomen with a pale lemon-coloured sub-basal 

 fascia ; * body beneath pale obscure greenish, the tiliiic and tarsi more or less pale lirownish. 



Exp. wings, <? and ? , 48 to 54 millim. 



Hab.— Malay Peninsula; Penang; Malacca; Singapore (Brit. :\Ius.)— Sumatra (Brit.Mus.)— Banca.f— 

 Java (Moore) ; Bantam (coll. Dist.) — Borneo (Low — coll. I)ist.). 



The ouly variatiou I have seen in this species is in the size and hue of the pale markings ; 

 it is probably strictly confined to the Indo-Malayan region. 



B. Cell of anterior icimjs more or less distinrtli/ dosed hij a slemlrr, siiherect diseo-eeUidar nervide. 

 b. Sexes (dike or siinilnr in eoloiir and marldmis. 



5. Athyma abiasa, car. clerica. (Tab. XVI., fig. 8 S .) 



Athi/iiia ahidsd, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1858, p. 16, n. 15, t. 50, f. 7. 



Atln/iiia cleriea, Butl. Traus. Liim. Soc. ser. 2, Zool. vol. i. p. 5i0, n. 7 (1877). 



The figure represents the type and only Malaccan specimen in the British Museum. 

 Mr. Butler has inadvertently described it as a male, but it is clearly a female, and I think 

 probably the other sex of Mr. Moore's species, which is also represented by the typical but 

 solitary male specimen. I reproduce the original description : — 



"Nearly alHed to A. ahiasa, but larger, the spots of primaries more oblique and larger, the sub-basal 

 transverse white baud of secondaries narrower; the discal series of spots much larger, more inarched 

 above anal angle, forming a w'aved baud, divided by the nervures ; a well-marked greenish grey 

 submarginal streak. Below much paler, with the differences of the upper surface ; submarginal series 

 of lituriB replaced by the submarginal streak, which is rosy greyish (not greenish, as above)." 



"Exp. wings, 2 inches 7 lines." 



Hab. — Malay Peninsula; Malacca (Pinwill — Brit. Mus.) — Java (Brit. Mus.). 



6. Athyma kresna. (Tab. XVI., fig. 3 <? .) 



Athijma Krc^na, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1858, p. 12, n. 6, t. 50, f . 4 ; J Druce, Proc. Zool Soc. 1873, p. 344, 

 n. 2; Butl. Traus. Limi. Soc. ser. 2, Zool. vol. i. p. 540, n. 3 (1877). 



Male and Female. Wings above dark fuscous or blackish, with the following bluish-white spots and 

 markings : — anterior wings with a cellular streak, sometimes entire, and in some specimens (as the one 

 figured) broken into a basal streak with two following and contiguous spots ; a large subtriangular spot 

 at end of cell ; an oblique series of three subapical spots (the central largest), divided by the discoidal 

 nervules, and followed by three linear spots jjlaced between the nervules, with a very small and indistinct 

 spot on inner margin ; the three subapical spots outwardly followed by three linear apical spots ; a large 

 discal ovate spot betw'een the second and third median nervules, and a large irregular spot before and 

 a linear spot after the submedian nervure, at about centre of inner margin. Posterior wings with a 

 transverse macular fascia near base and a curved outer discal series of subquadrate spots placed between 



* These two fasciae have been unfortunately omitted in the figure. 

 t Collected by M. Teysmann (Pet. Nouv. Ent. vi. p. -lO-l (1874). 



I I have not met with any specimens with the pale marldngs so decidedly blue as in Mr. Moore's figure. 

 June 30, 1883. 2 t 



