belonging to the Genus Athyma. 99 
la. A. lactaria, var. with a narrower band on the hind wings. 
Hapanse of wings 24°. ches. 
Hab. Dory. 
2. Athyma Astrea, un. sp. 
Upperside brownish black: front wings with two obliquely- 
placed large subapical white spots; two larger spots on the mid- 
dle of the disk; an elongate white spot with a small streak above 
it on the interior margin ; a submarginal row of small white spots ; 
a second outer very indistinct row, pale brown: hind wings with 
a broad white transverse band from beyond the middle of the 
interior to the middle of the abdominal margin ; three dark- 
brown marginal bands increasing in width towards the middle 
of the wing. 
Underside brown, glossed with pink: front wings—inner 
margin pale olive-brown ; base of costal margin orange ; a narrow 
discoidal streak indistinctly divided in its centre and broadly 
near its outer termination ; spots on the disk as above but larger ; 
outer margin with four submarginal white bands, the third from 
the margin broad and almost divided ito spots at the ner- 
vures: hind wings—base of costal margin white; an indistinct 
white streak from the base to near the middle of the costal ner- 
vure ; central band as above but broader; hind margin with four 
submarginal white bands, the three outer ones approximating, the 
innermost one indistinct, lunulate ; a brown dash across the sub- 
marginal bands above the middle of the disk. 
Body brown; legs, palpi, and abdomen pale. 
Expanse of wings 23-24 inches. 
Hab. Aru Islands. 
Allied to A. Kasa, Moore (Philippine Islands), but, on the 
upperside, closely resembling Neptis Shepherdi, Moore, excepting 
in the absence of the discoidal streak. 
3. Athyma Cerne, n. sp. 
Upperside brownish black: /ront wings with a pale green 
spot in the centre and a similar larger spot at the end of the cell ; 
two large greenish, oblong, obliquely-placed subapical spots; a 
large spot, divided above the middle by the second median branch, 
on the middle of the disk ; two small obliquely-placed submargi- 
nal spots near the apex: Aind wings with a central transverse 
greenish band tinted with pmk at each end, interrupted by the 
nervures ; two pale brown submarginal bands near the outer 
margin. 
Body brown ; antenri tipped with orange. 
Underside paler brown: front wings as above, except that 
all the large spots are white, and the hind margin has two sub- 
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