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Neolycsena davidi, Lycasiia tengstroemi var. davidi, Oberthiir, Etud. d'Ent. vi. p. 13, pi. 8, fig. 1 

 (18S1). Habitat, China. 



Genus RURALIS. 



Rurales, Linnseus, Syst. Nat. x. pp. 458, 482-484 (1758). 



Suralis, Barbut, Gen. Ins. Linn. p. 173 (1781). 



Zephyrus, Dalman, Kong. Vet-Akad. Hand, xxxvii. pp. 62, 90 (1816). Wallengren, Lep. Scand. 



Rhop. p. 178 (1853). de Niceville, Butt, of India, iii. p. 299 (1890). Leech, Butt, of China, 



etc. ii. p. 369 (1893). 

 Zephjrius, Dalman, Kong. Vet-Akad. Hand, xxxvii. p. 48, et seq. (1816) ; id. in Billburg's Enum. 



Ins. p. 80 (1820). 

 Aurotis, Dalman, Kong. Vet-Akad. Hand, xxxvii. pp. 63, 90 (1816). 

 Theda, Fabricius, 111. Mag. vi. p. 286 (1807). Leach, Edinb. Encycl. ix. p. 129 (1815). Swainson, 



Zool. Illus. Ixii. p. 69 (1821). Boisduval and Leoonte, Lep. Am. Sept. p. 81 (1833). Westwood, 



Gen. Diurn. Lep. ii. p. 481 (1852). Hewitson, 111. Diurn. Lep. p. 69 (1865). Leech, Butt, of 



China, etc. ii. p. 356 (1893). 



Eyes hairy. Forewing, vein 12 ends on costa opposite end of cell, 11 emitted at 

 one-third before the end, 10 a little before the end, 9 from 7 beyond its middle, 6 also 

 from 7 some distance beyond the end of cell, middle discoccllular slightly concave, 

 upright, the lower longer than the middle, concave, slightly outwardly oblique, vein 3 

 emitted before end of cell, sub-median nervure straight ; wing large, sub-triangular, 

 costa arched, apex nearly acute, outer margin nearly straight, inner margin straight. 

 Hhidwing large, broadly ovate, a fine tail at the end of vein 2, variable in length, 

 sometimes absent, the anal angle with a lobe varying in size, vein 7 emitted a little 

 before upper end of cell, discocellulars straight, outwardly oblique, the upper the shorter, 

 vein 3 from just before the lower end of cell. Antennae clavate, club gradual ; palpi 

 long, obliquely porrect, third joint horizontal, the second very bristly beneath, third 

 naked ; no secondary sexual characters. 



Type, Papilio hetulse, Linnaeus, the type of all the above-mentioned genera. 



RURALIS DOHERTTI. 

 Plate 702, figs. 2, $, 2a, ? , 2b, $. 



Zephyrus dohertyi, de Niceville, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1888, p. 278, pi. 14, figs. 1, (J , 2, $ ; id. 

 Butt, of India, iii. p. 307, pi. 25, figs. 140, ^, 141, ? (1890). Mackinnon and de Niceville, 

 Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1898, p. 348. 



Imago. — Male. Upperside. Foi^ewing dark iridescent green, varying to iridescent 

 purple in certain lights, the colour merging into the black borders, narrow on the 

 costa and broad on the outer margin, increasing in width to the hinder angle and 



