IX. Descriptions of New Species of Diurnal Lepidoptera. 
By W. C. Hewirson, F.L.S. 
[Read August Ist and September Sth, 1864. ] 
1. Helcyra Hemina. (Pl. XV. fig. 1.) 
Male.—Upperside white. Anterior wing with the apex broadly 
black, marked with two white spots; two black spots at the end 
of the cell, and one near the anal angle of the same colour. Pos- 
terior wing with seven spots beyond the middle, a submarginal 
line, and the onter margin (which is very narrow) black. 
Underside lilac-white. Anterior wing spotless, with two indis- 
tinct lines of brown near the middle, and one scarcely seen near 
the anal angle. Posterior wing with the spots of the upperside 
and the submarginal line indistinctly marked in lilac, preceded 
by arches of rufous-brown; the black spot (the outer spot of three 
near the anal angle) crowned with bright yellow. 
Exp. 24%, inch. 
Hab. India. 
In the Collection of the British Museum. 
This adds a second species to Dr. Felder’s genus Helcyra, 
which he considers nearest to Apatura. It differs from the neigh- 
bouring genera in the rounded club of the antennae, which re- 
sembles dArgynnis and Callithea, It has the cells of both wings 
open. Inthe museumat Leyden this species is put with Charazes, 
to which it bears a general resemblance. Specimens are in the 
collection of Mr. Atkinson, of Calcutta, and Mr. Moore has shown 
me one from the Dublin Museum. 
2. Limenitis Labotas. (Pl. XV. fig. 2.) 
Female.—Upperside dark brown. Both wings crossed obliquely 
at the middle by a common, straight, narrow, white band, broken 
into spots at its commencement on the anterior wing, followed 
between it and the outer margin by a band of black spots. An- 
terior wing with two crimson spots bordered with black, and a 
minute white spot within the cell; an indistinct white spot a little 
beyond the middle of the costal margin. 
Underside as above, except that itis altogether of a pale grey- 
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