NYiMPIIALID^. NVMI'IIALIN/E. ATIiVMA. i8i 



473- Atliyma suTsrata, i\roore. 



A. siihrata, Moore, Proc. Zool. See. Loiul., 1858, p. 13, n. 10, pi. li, fig. i, female; id., Distant, Rhop. 

 Malay., p. 164, n. 9, pi. xvi, fig. j^, female (1883). 



Habitat : India, Mergui, Malacca, Sumatra, Borneo. 



Expanse : ? , 2'3 to 2-5 inches. 



Description: "Female, Upperside deep brown, with the markings disposed as in 

 the female of A. nejte ; but they are all narrower, and instead of being of a deep orange colour, 

 are suffused with very pale brown. The underside is also much darker, being of alight 

 smoky-brown, with all the markings white." i_Moore, 1. c.) 



^ Dr. Anderson obtained three females, which I refer to this species, in the Mergui Archipelago 

 during the cold weather. They differ (as do all the Mergui specimens of the different speci'es 

 of the genus obtained by Dr. Anderson) from Mr. Moore's figure in the apex of the forewing 

 being less produced. The markings are arranged as in Neptis, and the species may be known 

 from all the other Indian ones by having them very pale brown suffused with dusky ochreous 

 in this respect being nearest to the female of A. zeroca. The male is unknown. 



474- Atliyma rufula, deN., n. sp. 



A. reia, Wood-Mason and de Niceville (}tcc Moore), Journ. A. S. B., vol. 1, pt. ii, p. 247, n. 40 (1881). 



Habitat : Andaman Isles. 

 Expanse : ? , 2-8 to 3*1 inches. 



Description : "Female. Upperside, firezving with the twice divided cellular mark, 

 the triangular spot beyond this, a subapical largish spot, and a much smaller one just in front of 

 the second median nervule in the discal series, orange, and with the curved series of si.>c discal 

 spots, white, diffusedly bordered, froni the costal margin increasingly and afterwards 

 decreasingly to the inner margin, with orange. Hindiving with the discal band white, 

 decreasingly from the anterior margin narrowly edged externally witli orange, and with the 

 submarginal sinuous band narrower, broken up into lunules, and oiange-coloured." {Wood- 

 Mason and de Niceville, 1. c. ) 



The male of this species has yet to be discovered ; the female differs from that sex of J, 

 inaiina in having the discoidal streak in the forewing divided into four distinct portions, and 

 the dividing lines being brown not yellow, and most of the spots and bands of the upperside 

 more or less white. The submarginal band on the upperside of the hindwing is very narrow 

 and macular. On the underside there is a very distinct series of rounded black spots beyond 

 the discal band of the hindwing. The late Mr, de Roepstorff obtained several specimens of 

 this species, all females, in the Andaman Isles. 



475- Atliyma amhara, Dmce. 



A. amhara, Druce, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lend, 1S73, p. 344, n. 6, pi. xxxii, fig. 2; id., Butler, Trans. Linn. 

 Soc. Lond., Zoology, second series, vol. i, p. 540, n. 6(1877); A. amhara, var.. Distant, Rhop. Malay, p, 

 162, n. 7, pi. xvi, fig. 5, male (18S3). 



Habitat : Thoungyeen Valley, Upper Tenasserim ; Penang, Province Wellesley, Malacca, 

 Borneo, 



Expanse: vZio 2-2 (Distant), 2-65 inches {/9;7<rA figure). 



above is subviolaceous beneath, and both 7vt''£-s have the dark fuscous markings as in A. amhara • 

 abdominal margin pale greenish. Body above coiicolourous with wings ; thorax with an anterior bluish transverse 

 fascia, and abdomen with a subbasal fascia of the same colour ; body beneath and femora greyish ; tibise and 

 tarsi pale fuscous. Female. Upperside very dark brown, with all the markings larger than in male and oran'^^e- 

 yellow in hue ; the subapical spots to forewing ^nd the outer discal fascia to hindiving being prominently broader. 

 Underside as above, but much paler, with the fuscous markings as in male." (Distant, \ c) 



Athyma nivifera, Butier. Habitat: Assam, Malacca, Borneo. Expanse : 2 4 to 27 inches. Descrip- 

 tion :" May be at once distinguished from A. ncfte of Cramer by the much narrower medial band, which in 

 the male is much more distinctly blue at the edges ; by the longer and narrow trifid subapical band on the male 

 and the deeper colour of the underside." {Butler, 1. c.) Mr. Distant (1. c ) states that his experience, however' 

 has not allowed him to cons dcr the characters above given for /I. «/iv/em by Mr. Butler "as sufficiently coa- 

 siant to indicate a distinct species or race," 



