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type female specimen of A. nakula, Moore,* here reproduced on plate 

 N, fig. 6, which is certainly the nearest ally to A. artaxes, and 

 occurs in Java. From these drawings the male of my species appears 

 to he much more scantily marked on the upperside than in A. nakula 

 being furnished with three instead of five subapical white dots to the 

 forewing only, and with no trace of discal and submarginal bands except 

 the short ferruginous fascia beyond the white dots on the fore wine. On 

 the underside also all the markings appear to be less prominent, and the 

 discal common fascia is quite different in character. The females of the 

 two species differ much more than the males do. A. artaxes has the 

 ground-colour of the upperside fuscous, A. nakula has it " dull pale 

 reddish-brown ; " the former has the discal band of both wings intensely 

 white, while A. nakula has it " whitish " in the forewing ; the band in 

 A. artaxes is very much broader also ; the black spots in the first 

 median interspaces of both wings touching the outer edge of, instead of 

 being well removed from, the discal band ; again the submarginal 

 markings greatly differ, and the forewing in A. artaxes is truncated 

 at the apex in both sexes, which is not the case in A. nakula. On the 

 underside the discal white band in the forewing in the female increases 

 in width from the costa to the third portion, in A. nakula the third 

 portion is the smallest of the three ; and in that species the discal band 

 on the hindwing is much narrower than in A. artaxes ; besides many 

 minor differences. 



The following species of the subgenus Eohana of the genus Apatura 

 have been described : — 



1. A. parysatis, Westwood, Kumaon, Sikkim, Bhutan, Assam, Burma Jelebu 



in the Malay Peninsula, Upper Tonkin, Hongkong. (Becorded also 

 from S.-W. Celebes by Heer Snellen, but either A. athalia, Butler or 

 A. macar, Wallace, is probably the species intended). 



la. A.parysatis,Ya,T. sumatrensis, Staudinger, Sumatra. 



1&. A.parysatis, var. nana, Staudinger, Palawan in the Philippine Isles 



2. A.camiba, Moore, South India, Ceylon, Java. (A.parysatis has been 



recorded from Java by Mr. Moore before he described A. oamiba • the 

 latter is probably the species intended). ' 



3. A. macar, Wallace, Macassar in Celebes. 



4. A. rhea, Felder, Babuyanes, Luzon, Bohol, Leyte, Siargao, North and 



East Mindanao— all in the Philippine Isles. 

 ia. A. rhea, var. rana, Staudinger, Palawan in the Philippine Isles. 



5. A. athalia, Butler, Celebes. 



6. A. nakula, Moore, Java. 



7. A. artaxes, de Nic^ville, N.-E. Sumatra. 



* Horsfield and Moore, Cat. Lep. Mus. E. I, C, p. 203, a. 414 (1857), 



