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suffused with very pale brown. Tbe under-side is also much darker, 

 being of a light smoky-brown, with all the markings white. Ex- 

 panse 2\ inches. 



Hab. .Malacca, Sumatra. In Collection British Museum, and W. 

 W. Saunders, Esq. 



1 1 . Athyma Cama, Moore. 



Athyma Cama, Moore, Catal. Lep. Mus. E. I. C. i. p. 1 74. pi. 5 a. 

 f.56 % (1857). 



Athyma Cama. Male. — Upper-side velvety-black ; fore-wing with 

 a brown marginal and submarginal line ; discoidal streak indistinct, 

 ferruginous, and dusted over with black ; near the apex a ferrugi- 

 nous spot ; two oblique spots from subcostal vein on one-third of 

 the wing from the apex, and a band of three spots from middle of 

 wing to posterior margin, joining a band across the hind-wing, white, 

 bordered with blue ; on the hind-wing also a marginal and submar- 

 ginal brown line. Body black, with a broad white band across base 

 of abdomen, also a pale ferruginous line across the thorax. Under- 

 side pale ferruginous, markings purplish-white ; the curved band as 

 above ; fore-wing with a long broad irregular discoidal streak, a sub- 

 marginal and indistinct marginal line ; a black patch near the base 

 of wing, and another near posterior angle ; hind-wing with a curved 

 line near base of wing, and a rather broad outer band, a marginal 

 row of marks ; some patches of brown between outer and inner band. 

 Body and abdominal margin broadly grey. 



Female. — Upper-side black; markings ferruginous; fore-wing with 

 a long discoidal streak ; an oblique band from anterior to near middle 

 of exterior margin, and nearly joining a band running to middle of 

 posterior margin ; a marginal and submarginal brown line, the latter 

 ferruginous anteriorly and posteriorly ; hind-wing with a broad 

 inner and narrower outer band ; also a marginal brown line. Body 

 black, with a white band across the base of abdomen, and tinged 

 below the band with ferruginous ; also a pale white collar. Under- 

 side ferruginous ; markings as in the male, but pinky-white, except 

 marginal and submarginal lines, which are purplish-white. Expanse 

 of wings in male 1\ to 2J- inches, female 3 inches. 



Hab. Darjeeling, N. India. In Museum East India Company, 

 and W. C. Hewitson, Esq. 



Remark. — The male of Athyma Cama may at once be known from 

 that sex of Ath. Selenophora in having on the upper-side a ferrugi- 

 nous spot close to the apex, and the band on the fore-wing being 

 composed of three spots. 



12, Athyma Selenophora. 



S Limenitis Selenophora, Kollar in Hiigel's Kaschmir, iv. pt. 11. 

 p. 426. t. 7. f. 1, 2 (1844); Westwood in Doubleday and Hewit- 

 son's Diurnal Lep. p. 270. n. 8. 



Athyma Selenophora, Moore, Catal. Lep. Mus. E. I. C. i. p. 175. 



Hab. Masuri (Kollar) ; Darjeeling. In Collection East India 



