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and underside, closely resembles certain species of the Neptid genus Bimblsara, namely 

 B. Nashona, Quilta, etc. In Pantopona Kresna, the female {siibrata) has the 

 coloration and markings similar to Blmhlsara Anjana and B. Omeroda, being 

 probably a mimic of those species. The female of the Andamanese Pantoporia 

 rufulaia also an excellent mimic of Bimblsara Nar, Mr. de Niceville says, "Athyma 

 Perlus is doubtless a good mimic of the common species of Neptis (? leucothoe), 

 together with which it is always found, and from which it is not easily differentiated 

 on the wing, but, if pursued, it at once assumes its stronger and bolder proper 

 Athyma-like flight." 



The Japanese Parathi/ma Pryeri is probably a mimic of Paraneptls Pryeri, and the 

 European Limenitis Drusilla a mimic of Paraneptis Lucilla. The Philippine 

 Athyraid, Balanga Kasa, in both sexes, mimics the Neptid Palanda Illigera, and the 

 Athymid Balanga Epimethes the Neptid Pandasana Ebusa. 



Mimicked by Species in other Groups. — The Athymid Gondochates opalina, in 

 addition to being mimicked by the female of the allied Athymid Pantoporia 

 Selenophora, is also excellently mimicked by the Apaturine butterfly, Mlmathyma 

 Ghevana. 



The red-banded female of the Javan Athymid Pantoporia Nefte, is mimicked by 

 the red-banded sexes of the Nymijhaline butterfly, Symbrenthia Hlppocla, and the 

 white-banded male of Nefte, also, is, apparently, mimicked by the white-banded 

 (dimorphic) female of the same Javan species of 8ymbrenthia . The Neptid, 

 Bahinda Hordonia, is also apparently mimicked by the common Nymphaline 

 Symbrenthia Sypselis, both of which have similar shaped red bands on their 

 upperside. 



Mimics of Species in other Groups. — In two Chinese Limenitids, namely 

 llypolimnesthes albomacnlata and Pseudohypolimnas piinctata, the males, of both 

 species, are excellent mimics — in colour and markings — of the common Nymphaline 

 butterfly, Hypolimnas Misippus (a protected genus), the female of albomaculata, also 

 being, both on the upper and underside, somewhat similar to the underside of the 

 ■male of the same species of Hypolimnas. In the Malayan Neptid, Hamadryodes 

 lactaria, we have an excellent mimic of the Euploeine genus Uamadryas, and in the 

 Neptid, Andasenodes mimetica, a mimic of the Euploeine butterflies, Andasena Grope, 

 and of an unnamed species of Doricha, the allied Andasenodes Eblis also being a 

 mimic of, probably, a species of GalUplcea. The N. American Limenitid, Basilarcha 

 Archipjjus, may also be cited here — both sexes of which mimic the common Euploeine 

 butterfly, xinosia (? pjlexippus), 



Habits op Imago. — Mr. L. de Niceville states that the butterflies of the genus 

 Lebadea " have a weak flight, always settling with outspread wings, usually on a 

 leaf," and of those placed by him under the genus Limenitis, that " they are very 



