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1. LiBYTHEA MyBEHA. 



Idbythea Myrrha, Godt. Enc. Meth. ix. 171; Hiibn. 

 Zutrage, f. 789, 790; G. R. Gray, Lep. Ins. Nepaul, 

 p. 15, pi. xii. f. 4. 



Hah. — N. and S. India ; Yar. Ceylon and S. India 

 (B. M.) ; Var. Borneo (Coll. Wall.) ; Java (Godt.). 



Varies much in the width of the bands and the size of 

 the spots ; specimens from Ceylon and S. India have 

 these very much reduced and paler, the apical spots 

 being nearly white. Specimens which have recently 

 arrived from Borneo, have the wings somewhat less fal- 

 cate, and less dentate behind, but as the species varies 

 so much, these can hardly be separated. 



2. LiBYTHEA LePITA. 



Lihythea Lepita, Moore, Cat. Lep. E. I. C. p. 240. 



" Differs from L. Myrrha in the ferruginous streak 

 from the base of the fore-wings being divided into two 

 portions" (Moore.). 



Hab.—N. India, Bootan (E. I. Mus.). 



3. LiBYTHEA NaRINA. 



Lihythea Narina, Godt. Enc. Meth. ix. 171. 

 Lihythea Neratia, Feld. Nov. Voy. Lep. p. 313. 

 Ba&.— Coram, Gilolo (Wall. $ .) . 

 This resembles the African species L. Lahdaca ; 

 Godart's locality, ^^ Java," is, probably, erroneous. 



4. LiBYTHEA GeOFFROYI. 



Lihythea Geofroyi, Godt. Mem. Soc. Linn. Paris, ii. 

 Lep. pi. 2; Enc. Meth. ix. 813. 



Female. Above, blackish-brown, the basal and anal 

 regions reddish-brown. Anterior wings with four white 

 spots, two transverse near the apex, as in the male but 

 larger, a small oval spot at the end of the cell, and a 

 much larger one below it. Hind-wings with the trans- 

 verse orange band more distinct than in the male. 



Beneath; the spots as above, a basal stripe of dull 

 orange, the apex of the anterior wings and the whole 

 surface of the hind-wings of a reddish-ash colour, with a 

 few blackish irrorations, which form a very obscure in- 

 terrupted band across the disc. 



