»p [September, 
NocTUA DAHLii — Howtli and Killarney. 
EUBi — Howth, abundant. 
UMBEOSA — Common in most places. 
BAJA — do. do. 
NEGLECTA — Galway. 
XANTHOGEAPHA — Common everywhere. 
{To he contimied.) 
DESCRIPTIONS OF SOME NEW SPECIES OF DIURNAL LEFIDOPTERA IN 
THE COLLECTION OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 
BY AETHUE GAEDINEE BUTLEE, F.Z.S. 
1. — ApATUEA ATHALIA, n. sp. 
^ . Alae supra fuscse, margine postico brunneo ; anticce, apice 
nitente, puuctis quiuque minimis sub-apicalibus albis ; cella fasciia 
duabus rufo-fuscis, altera media, altera terminali ornata ; margine 
postico fasciis duabus nigris sub-marginato : postlcoe, margine postico 
fascia nigra marginato, fasciaque lunulata, sub-marginato ; puncto 
uno rufo-cincto apudangulum analem : corpus olivaceo-fuscum, antennis 
fuscis, rubro-acuminatis. 
Alse subtus pallidiores, fasciis duabus mediis fuscis, fascia externa 
paulum indistincta : anticce, cella, fasciis duabus rufis nigro-cinctis 
ornata ; puncto uno basali nigro, tribusque sub-apicalibus albis, imo 
nigro-cincto ; macula apud marginem posticum oblonga, ochreo-cincta, 
sub nervula mediana secunda posita ; fasciis duabus altera sub-anali, 
altera sub-marginali lunulata, fuscis : posticce, cella, maculis duabus 
ferrugineis nigro-cinctis, quarum una apud angulum analem nigra rufo- 
cincta, punctoque nigro ; margine postico linea fusca marginato lunu- 
lisque fuscis indistinctis sub-marginato : corpus ochreo-fuscum. Alar, 
exp., unc. 28. 
$ . Alse supra ; area basali ocbreo-varia, apicali ocbrea, fascia 
media fuscescente ; fascia media irregulari de maculis hastatis formata, 
post posticarum cellam ocbreo-confusa : margine postico fasciis duabus 
fuscis sub-marginato: anticce punctis sex albis, apud apicem nigro- 
cinctis; macula apud angulum analem parva nigra ochreo-cincta: 
posticcB similiter maculatse. 
AlcB subtus mari simillimse, pallidiores autem, fasciaque media 
alba. Alar. exp. unc. 2iV 
Hal., Celebes. 
This species is allied to A. parvata (Moore), N. India; A. Nahiola 
(Moore), Jarva ; and A. Parisatis (Westwood), India and China. 
