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35. Athyma sulpitia, Cram., Pap. Exot., iii., t. 214, 1782. 



Var. ningpoana, Feld., Wien. Ent. Mon., vi., p. 26. 



A fairly long series of this species shows but little 

 variation of importance ; the two white dashes in the 

 cell, however, are sometimes confluent. 



36. Athyma fortuna, n. s. (PI. VIIL, figs. 1 <?, 1«, ? ). 



Male. Upper surface smoky black, with a slight purplish 

 reflection in certain lights. Primaries : discal streak club-shaped, 

 entire ; discal band represented by a series of nine white or opaline 

 spots, of which the third, fourth, and fifth, as also the eighth and 

 ninth, are only separated by the nerves. Two small spots and a 

 faint curved linear mark at the outer angle are the only sub- 

 marginal markings. Secondaries : a broad and almost straight 

 central white or opaline band, interrupted only by the subcostal 

 nervule, and on the hind margin a white or opaline bar tapering 

 from the anal angle towards the costa, and intersected by the 

 nervules forming a series of six spots. 



Female. Upper surface brownish black. Discal streak termi- 

 nates in a dot beyond the cell. Markings as in the male, but spots 

 smaller and of a creamy tint. Fringes white, chequered with 

 black at the extremities of the nervules. 



Under surface of all the wings orange-brown. The discal area 

 and a quadrate spot at anal angle of primaries black. White 

 markings much as on upper surface, but more confluent, and the 

 streak terminates in a sharp point just outside the cell. There is 

 also a whitish line bounding the lower two-thirds of outer margin, 

 and two small white spots, one above and the other directly below 

 the discal streak. A series of black crescent-shaped marks com- 

 mencing near the costa, and, skirting the external edges of apical 

 spots, runs parallel with outer margin to black spot at anal angle. 

 These marks are bordered externally with white. Markings on 

 ih.e secondaries as on the upper surface, but with the addition of a 

 fairly broad basal streak, which is bluish grey in the male, but 

 white in female, and bluish grey abdominal fold. Expanse, 

 (^ 74 mm. ? 84 mm. 



This species is most nearly allied to Athyma jina, 

 Moore, from which, however, it can easily be distin- 

 guished by the narrower discal streak, and by the 

 absence of white abdominal belt. On the upper surface 

 it also bears a superficial resemblance to A. sulpitia, 

 Cram., but the character of the discal streak and the 



