174 NYMPIIALID/E. NYMPHALIN/E. ATilYMA. 



Mr. W. F. Kirby in his Synonymic Catalogue of Diurnal Lepidoptera, Supplement, 

 p. 743, gives A. kresna, Moore, as a synonym of A. jadera, D'Orbigny,* but the figure does 

 not at all agree with specimens of A, kresna ; it appears to be much nearer to A. asita, and 

 probably the latter name should make way for the A. jadera of D'Orbigny. Of this group 

 A. nefte, Cramer, from Java may be considered the parent species, A. nivifera, from the 

 Malay Peninsula, is hardly separable, both with all the markings on the upperside of the 

 male white ; A. asita (typical) and A. jadera have the submarginal band of the forewing 

 orange anteriorly ; while A. inara and A. inarina have it orange throughout. 



Dr. Anderson obtained two males of A. kresna in the Mergui Archipelago in the cold 

 weather. Mr. Moore's original figure of this species shows the bands of the upperside of 

 much too deep a shade of bhiish : the forewing in his figure is more elongated than in the 

 Wcigui specimens. 



464. Atliyma abiasa, Moore. 



A. abiasa, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1858, p. 16, n. 15, pi. 1, fig. 7, male; A. cUrica, Butler, Trans. 

 Linn. Soc. Lend., Zoology, second series, vol. i, p- 540, n. 7, pi. Ixix, fig. 5, yiwrt/e (1877); A, abiasa, var. 

 ilerica, Distant, Rhop. Malay., p. 161, n. 5, pi. xvi, fig. 8, female (1883). 



Habitat : Mergui Archipelago, Malacca, Java. 

 Expanse: ^,2'o; ?, 2-3 to 26 inches. 



Description : " Male. Upperside black ; markings bluish-white. Forewing with an 

 indistinct narrow streak from base, and a large spot near extremity of the discoidal cell ; an 

 indistinct narrow transverse disco-cellular line ; three spots obliquely from subcostal nervure 

 one-third from the apex, the third spot being minute ; two spots in middle of the disc, the 

 upper one small, the lower very large, also a large spot on middle of posterior margin 

 [divided by the submedian nervure] ; and a submarginal row of very small whitish spots. 

 Hindwing with rather broad inner band, and outer row of recurved small triangular spots j 

 an indistinct brown marginal line. A band of white across base of abdomen. Underside 

 dusky-brown, marked as above, with the marginal lines plainer." {Moore, \. z.) 



Dr. Anderson obtained a single female specimen of this species in the Mergui Archi- 

 pelago during the cold weather. It does not differ in any important particular from the 

 description and figure of the Javan type, except perhaps that all the markings are rather 

 more prominent. Mr. Distant considers A. clerica, Butler, described (inadvertently as a 

 male, but actually a female) from Malacca as a variety only of A. abiasa. The original 

 description is appended.t 



465. Athyma SUlpitia, Cramer. 



Pa/>ilto stil^Hia, Cramer, 'Ltp. Ex., vol. iii, pi. ccxiv, figs. E, F (1779); id., Herbst, Pap., pi. ccxl, 

 figs. 3, 4 (1798) ; Nymfhalis strophia, Godart, Enc. M^th., vol. ix, p. 431, n. 257 (1823) ; Limenitis strophia, 

 Kollar in Hiigel's Kaschmir, vol. iv, pt, 2, p. 429, n. 6 (1844). 



Habitat : Masuri (Kollar), China. 



Expanse: ^, 285 ;??, (Cramer's figure) 3-20 inches. 



Description : Male. Upperside black, markings white. Foreimng with a streak in 

 the cell divided towards its end ; three short streaks beyond the end of the cell divided by 

 the discoidal nervules ; a discal series of eight spots, the five upper ones small and round, 

 the sixth much larger and cordiform, the seventh larger still, outwardly indented in the 



* LhnenUis jadera, D'Orbigny (Boisduval, MS.), Diet. d'Hist. Nat., Zoologie, Atlas ii, Lep., pi. iv, 

 fig- 3 (1849). 



t A thy ma clerica, Butler, Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond., Zoology, second series, vol. i, p. 540, n. 7, pi. Ixix, fig. s, 

 female (1877). Habitat : Malacca. Expanse : 2'6 inches. Description : Female. " Nearly allied to 

 A ■ abiasa, but larger, the spots of i\\c forewing more oblique and larger, the subbasal transverse white band of 

 the /:/«a'w/«^ narrower ; the discal series of spots much larger, more inarched above anal angle, forming a 

 waved band, divided by the nervuies ; a well-marked greenish-grey submarginal streak Underside much 

 paler, with the differences of the upperside ; submarginal series of liturse replaced by the submarginal streak, 

 which is rosy greynish (not greenish, as above)." (Butler, 1. c.) Mr. Butler's figure of A. clerica differs from the 

 Mergui example in being larger, the forewing more elongated and the apex more acute, the discal white band 

 on the hindwing a little broader. 



