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the subcostal branched before the end of the cell ; the disco-cellular nervures of equal length, 

 joining the third median nervule a very little beyond its base. 



I would very gladly have adopted the generic name of Dipsas for this group of 

 butterflies, could it have been retained. The genus Dipsas of Doubleday was intended 

 to contain two species only, Theda Sila of Kollar (Hugel's Kaschmir, pi. 4) and the 

 Dipsas Ataxus of the " Genera of Diurnal Lepidoptera" (pi. 74). Mr. Westwood has 

 also constructed his genus Dipsas, and made the dissections for that purpose, from one 

 of these species ; and as they must for the future take their places next to Tliecla 

 Qucrcits, from which they do not differ except in colour, and have very little resem- 

 blance to the other species with which they have been associated, I am compelled 

 reluctantly to abandon the genus Dipsas. 



The genus Deudorix, of which Epijarbas is typical, seems to form a very natural 

 group ; it will contain species which are placed by Mr. Westwood in several genera 

 with which they do not seem to accord. If I have the good fortune to place them 

 better than he has done, he will himself be the first to acknowledge it, and will give 

 me credit when I say that I would much rather tread in his footsteps than trace a track 

 for myself where the way is ill-defined. D. Timoleon and D. Mia are somewhat 

 aberrant : their eyes are smooth, and the males have a fourth branch from the sub- 

 costal nervure. The wings of D. Galathea are less pointed than in the more typical 

 species, but in this it resembles the females of some of them. Several of the species 

 have great resemblance to the Hesperidee, and must, like them, be of rapid flight. 



D. Amyntor, D. Despcena, D. Eos, D. Loxias, D. Epijarbas, and D. Diovis are without 

 a tuft of hair (which the males of all the other species possess) at the inner margin 

 on the underside of the anterior wing. To adopt it as a sectional character would only 

 disarrange species which should come close together. 



1. Deudorix Amyntor. Plate VIII. 6 figs. 19, 20. 



$ . Papilio Amyntor, Herbst, pi. 300. f. 5, 6. 



Alyrina Amyntor, Westwood in Doubleday 4' Hewitson's Gen. Diurn. Lep. p. 476. Horsfeld 4' Moore, 

 Cat. Lep. E. I. 0. Mus. p. 49. 



In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson, from North India. 



