608 mr. a. g. butler on the genus adolias. [nov. 26, 



50. Adolias blumei. 



d'. Adolias blumei, VoUenhoven, Tijdschr. voor Ent. p. 204. 

 n. 30,pl. 12. figs. 3,4 (1862). 



$. A. blumei, Butler, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. i. p. 98. n. 2" 

 (1868). 



(S , Java (^VoUenhoven). Borneo, S 2, B.M. 



51. Adolias cocytina. 



<S . Adolias cocy/jna,Horsfield, Zool. Jourii. p. 67, pi. 4. figs. 3, 3^ 

 (1829-30); 2 . Butler, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. i. p. 99. n. 6 (Feb. 

 1868). 



S . A. godartii, G. R. Gray, List Lep. Nepal, p. 14, tab. 12. fig. 2 

 (1846). 



$ . A. mitra, Felder, Reise der Novara, iii. p. 433. n. 695 (1867). 



(S , S\imsitT& (Hors^eld). Sumatra, S 2, B.M. 



52. Adolias ludekingii. 



2. Adolias ludekingii, VoUenhoven, Tijdschr. voor Ent. p. 189. 

 n. 9, pi. 10. fig. 3(1862). 



2 . Sumatra (VoUenhoven). 



This is a local representative of monina, Fabr. (puseda, Moore), 

 and comes between it and cocytina. The male will doubtless be 

 difficult. to determine. 



53. Adolias monina. (Plate XLV. fig. 4.) 



cJ . Pap. monina, Fabricius, Mant. Ins. p. 51. n. 502 (1787), 

 linea supramarginali latiore nigerrima. 



East India (Fabricius). East Indies, (S , B.M. 



(J (race). A. cocyta, Fabr. Ent. Syst. iii. pt. 1. p. 127(1793). 



2- -^' puseda, Moore, Trans. Ent. Soc. p. 71, pi. 6. fig. 5 

 (1859). 



Penang (Moore). Singapore, Penang, cS 2> B.M. 



I have examined thirty-five specimens of both sexes in Lieut. 

 Roberts's collection. The form monina, 2, only differs in the more 

 strongly marked coloration of the under surface. 



54. Adolias lepidea. 



cJ 2 • Adolias lepidea, Butler, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. i. p. 71 

 (1868). 



d 2 > Northern India. 2 ^'^J"-. Southern India, B.M. 



This species has been most minutely described in German by 

 Prittwitz (Stett. ent. Zeit. 1867) as thecocytus of Fabricius. 



Telchinea group. 



55. Adolias telchinea. 



cJ . Adolias telchinea, Menetries, Cat. Le'p. Mas. St. Petersb. 

 pt. 2. t. 9. fig. 3(1857). 



2 . Adolias aphidas, Hewitson, Exot. Butterf. iii. p. 60, pi. 30. 

 fig. 8 (1862). 



