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margiu broadly fuscous ; a submarginal somewhat broad and nearly 

 straight black band. Underside, both wings fuscous, more or less 

 profusely mottled throughout with grey scales, crossed by three parallel 

 equi-distant discal black lines, with a fourth submarginal highly 

 lunulated narrower black line. Cilia of both wings white, marked 

 with black at the terminations of the veins. Thorax and abdomen blue 

 above, fuscous beneath. 



Very close to E. castelnaui^ Felder, recorded from the Malay Penin- 

 sula (Felder); Singapore and Borneo (Wallace); Perak (Distant); Nias 

 Island (Kheil); Palawan (Staudinger) ; Sumatra (Snellen, Grose Smith, 

 Hagen); differing, however, on the upperside of both wings in the blue 

 coloration being of a different shade, distinctly lighter, with a strong 

 gloss, which in some lights causes the surface to present a decidedly 

 green appearance. In figuring E. castelnaui, Felder quite correctly 

 portrays the upperside " without gloss," and Dr. A. R. Wallace notes the 

 same thing. The only difference in the markings noticeable is on the 

 upperside of the hind wing, E. castelnaui having the submarginal black 

 line very narrow and clearly defined, E. fi-uhstorferii having it many 

 times broader, and the edges somewhat diffused. 



Described from a single example kindly given to me by Mr. H. 

 Fruhstorfer and captured by him in Central Java at 1,500 feet eleva- 

 tion in 1891. 



9. NEPTIS (i^a/im^a) AURE LI A, Staudinger, Pi. S, Fig. 15, ?. 



iV, aurelia, Staudinger, Ex. Schmett., p. 145 (1886). 



Habitat : Malacca (Staudinger) ; Daunat Range, Middle Tenas- 

 serim ; Karen Hills, 500 to 1,500 feet — Burma. 



Expanse : $, 9, 1°<3 to 1*7 inches. 



Description : Female. Upperside, both loings black with deep 

 tawny markings. Forewing with the discoidal band broad, extending 

 well below the median nervure,the end of the discoidal cell anteriorly 

 indicated by a prominent short black bar ; the discal band broad, in 

 two portions, the anterior portion has its outer edge even and regular!}^ 

 curved, its inner edge is very irregular, the veins entering the edge 

 from that side being defined with black and almost dividing the band 

 into three portions ; the posterior portion of the band consists of two 



