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wing with ill-defined whitish discoidal streak, in three portions ; 

 from costal margin near the apex three narrow spots, oblique ; in 

 middle of disc two large spots, and two on middle of posterior mar- 

 gin, broad, white ; an indistinct marginal and submarginal pale 

 brown line, the latter anteriorly spotted with white ; hind-wing with 

 broad white inner band, and very narrow line of whitish lunulate 

 marks, bounded above with a lunular black spot ; an indistinct black 

 line between the band and the latter ; an indistinct pale brown mar- 

 ginal line. Under-side ochreous-red, with darker margins, markings 

 as above, the interstices with patches of black ; spots at base of 

 wings, and row of spots within the outer band and another row be- 

 tween the two bands of the hind-wing, black ; marginal lines white. 

 Abdominal margin and body greenish-grey. Expanse 3 inches. 

 Hab. Philippine Islands. In British Museum Collection. 



26. Athyma Gtjtama, Moore. (PI. LI. f. 7.) 



Athyma Gutama, n. sp. Female. — Upper-side smoky-black ; 

 fore-wing with ill-defined brownish-white discoidal streak, straight, 

 entire ; three oblique spots from costal margin near the apex, and 

 three to the middle of posterior margin, white, the firstx of the latter 

 being large and oval, the second square, the third narrow ; an ill- 

 defined margin and submarginal brownish-white lines, the submar- 

 ginal anteriorly being spotted with white ; hind-wing with broad 

 white inner band, and narrow brownish-white outer band ; marginal 

 line and line between the band brownish. Under-side rather paler, 

 with markings as in upper-side, but more defined and all white, ex- 

 cept the line between the bands of the hind-wing and an irregular 

 line outside the oblique spots of the fore-wing, which are ochreous. 

 Expanse 2f inches. 



Hab. Manilla ; Philippine Isles. In collections of the British 

 Museum, and W. W. Saunders, Esq. 



27. Athyma Venilia. 



Papilio Venilia, Linnaeus, Syst. Nat. ed. 10. n. 120 (1767); 

 Clerck, Icon. t. 32. f. 4 ; Fabricius, Ent. Syst. in. 1, p. 134 ; Cramer, 

 Pap.Exot. iii. t. 219. f. B. C. 



Nymphalis Venilia, Godart, Enc. Meth. ix. p. 433. 



Hab. Java; Ceram or Amboyna ( Madame Pfeiffer) . In collec- 

 tion British Museum, W. W. Saunders, Esq., and W. C. Hewitson, 

 Esq. 



3. Descriptions of Eleven New Species of Land-Shells, 

 from the Collection of H. Cuming, Esq. By Dr. L. 

 Pfeiffer. 



(Mollusca, PI. XL.) 



1. Helix Wallacei, Pfr. T. subpcrforata, subconoideo-depressa, 

 solidula, leviter striata, pallide isabellina, fusco-unizonata et 



