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tnangvi]ar ; costa very slightly arched, apex rounded, exterior margin slightly con- 

 cave in the middle and very slightly scalloped, posterior margin recurved ; first and 

 second subcostal branches emitted before end of the cell; both discocellulars very ' 

 short ; cell open ; posterior border of the underside from below the median vein 

 glossy pale brownish-grey, and enclosing a broad elongated glossy dark bluish-grey 

 patch of scales between the median and submedian, this patch being densely clothed, 

 in transverse slightly ridged waves, with long very slender more or less curved 

 sabre-shaped opaque scales, the outer curved edge of these scales being slightly but 

 perceptibly notched. Ewdwincf broad, circular, anterior and exterior margin regularly 

 rounded, the latter broadly scalloped, anal angle rounded ; precostal vein bent inward 

 near the end ; costal vein terminating at the apex ; costal and subcostals regiilarly 

 arched, the subcostals emitted close to costal ; costal border glossy brownish-grey, the 

 area below the costal vein to the radial being brilliantly glossed with violet-grey scales. 

 Body moderate ; palpi stout, densely clothed with fine hairs to the tip ; antennse rather 

 long, slender, club elongated; eyes naked. Type. P. Amphion (Heliodora, Cram.). — 

 Fheedyma Amphion (Papilio Amphion, Linn. S. N. x. ed. p. 486 (1758); Seba, 

 Thesaurus iv. pi. 16, fig. 3, 4; Neptis Amphion, Aurivillius, Kongl. Vet. Akad. 

 Handl. 1882, p. 103. Syn. Pap. Heliodora, Cram., Pap. Exot. iii. pi. 212, fig. E. F. 

 Herbst. Nat. Sch. ix. pi. 241, fig. 1. Pap. pellucida, Goeze, Ent. Beyt. 1779, p. 120. 

 Pheedyma Heliodora, Felder, Neues Lep. p. 31 (1861). Habitat. Amboyna. — 

 Phsedyma Shepherdi (Nep. Shepherdi, Moore, P. Z. S. 1858, p. 8, pi. 50, fig. 1. 

 Habitat. New South Wales, Australia. — Phsedyma Astrea (Athyma Astrea, Butler, 

 Ann. Nat. Hist. 1866, p. 99. Habitat. Aru. — Phsedyma latifasciata (Neptis lati- 

 fasciata, Butler, Tr. Ent. Soc. 1875, p. 4). Seba, Thesaurus iv. pi. 16, fig. 8, 9. 

 Habitat. Cape York, Australia. — Phsedyma melaleuca (Lim. melaleuca, Boisd. Voy. 

 Astrol. Lep. p. 131 (1832). Habitat. Moluccas. — Phsedyma Gerne (Athyma Cerne, 

 Butler, Ann. N. H. 1866, p. 99. Habitat. Moluccas. — Phsedyma Pisias (Neptis 

 Pisias, Godman and Salvin, Ann. Nat. Hist. 1888, p. 98. Habitat. Soloman Islands. 

 — Phsedyma Jissigonata (Neptis fissigonata. Butler, Ann. Nat. Hist. 1882, p. 43. 

 Grose-Smith and Kirby, Rhop. Exot. 1895, Nept. p. 2, pi. 1, fig. 3, 4. Habitat. 

 Soloman Islands. — Phsedyma Heliopolis, Felder, Reise Nov. Lep. iii. p. 427 (1867). 

 Habitat. Gilolo ; Timor. — Phsedyma Ganina (Neptis Ganina, Grose-Smith, Novitates 

 Zool. i. p. 353, pi. xii. fig. 4 (1894). Habitat. New Guinea. — Phsedyma Nectens 

 (Neptis (Phsedyma) Nectens, de Niceville, J. As. Soc. Bengal, 1897, p. 548, pi. i. 

 fig. 3, ? . Habitat. Ke Islands. 



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