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ON NEW AND LITTLE-KNOWN LEPIDOPTERA, 167 
of H. nama, and in the late Mr. Otto Moller’s collection, 
now in the possession of the Hon. Walter Rothschild, there are 
two other remarkable aberrations of the same species, all three are 
males from Sikkim. It appears to the present writer that the nam- 
ing of aberrations is to be deprecated, especially so such as 
these which are purely individual, it being extremely improbable 
that second specimens of any one of them identical with the first will 
be found. I weuld not have ventured to describe the present species 
as new, more especially as I possess but a single specimen of it 
received from M. Oberthtir, were it not for the fact that it 
differs markedly in the outline of the hindwing from AH. nama, 
which is not likely to be an aberrational character. 
_ 11. NEPTIS (Phedyma) NERIO, n. sp. Plate DD, Fig. 11. 9. 
N. (Phedyma) heliodora, de Niceville (nec Cramer), Journ. A. S.B., vol. lxvii, pt. 2, 
p. 312, n, 34 (1898). 
Hasirat: Kayeli in Buru, one of the Moluccas. 
EXpPANsE: 9, 2°8 inches. 
_ Description: Femaie. UPppursipn, both wings with all the white 
markings larger and more prominent than those in IV. amphion, 
Linneus, = NV. helrodora, Cramer,= Papilio pellucidus, Goeze,= Athyma 
cerne, Butler, from Amboyna.* Forewing has two subapica] white spots 
only, the third anteriormost in N. amphion being absent in the present 
species, they are larger also, and rhomboid ; the two discal spots in the 
median interspaces are also larger, and divided only by the black second 
median nervule ; there are two spots on the sutural area against one in 
NN. amphion, the anterior placed above the submedian nervure is of the 
same size as is the solitary spot in that species, while the posterior | 
is twice as large ; the inner of the two submarginal series 
of white spots is also more prominent. Hindwing has the discal 
white fascia of quite a different character : its anterior edge is 
quite straight and even instead of being highly irregular and 
uneven, its posterior edge is also much more regular, the band 
is also wider, tapering to both ends and divided into spots 
only by the black veins, in NV. amphion all the spots are well 
separated from the veins; the two submarginal series of white 
a Papilio amphionis perhups a Neptis” (Kirby, Trans. Ent. Soc, Lond., 1870, p. 147, n, 
205), Aurivillius, Kong). Svenska Vet-Akad. Handle., vol. xix, n, 5, p. 103, n, 122 a (1882), 
