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unable to check the first entry ; though apparently the name given 

 therein on p. 486, n. 173, is hylas aud not eurynome. If this be so, 

 enrynome cannot be ascribed to Linnams, but should be credited to 

 Westwood, as was done by Dr. Moore in 1871. Donovan's fig. 4 of pi. 

 xxxv applies to this insect : he called it leucotho'e, mistaking the 

 insect for the Athyma leucotho'e described by Linnasus as Papilio leuco- 

 tho'e, which itself is a synonym of the older Papilio [Athyma] perius, 

 Linnaaus. As there is an older Neptis named leucotho'e of Cramer the 

 species under consideration cannot be called Neptis leucotho'e, Donovan. 

 Mr. Kirby records Neptis hainana, Moore, originally described from 

 Hainan Island, China, from Hongkong, but Dr. Moore considers that 

 species to be distinct from the Hongkong one, so as I have no Hainan 

 specimens I have followed him in this. This group of the genus 

 occurs almost everywhere in the East, and in my opinion has received 

 far too many names. Wherever the seasons are markedly wet and 

 dry, seasonal dimorphism is very strongly marked, particularly so in 

 Hongkong. The insect in Hongkong has not been bred, but the trans- 

 formations of its Indian allies are well known, N. varmana. Moore, in 

 South India being found in the larval state on peas of various kinds, 

 Natural Order Leguminosse. 



35.* Precis atlites, Linnaeus. 



Papilio atlites, Linnseus, Cent. Ins., p. 24, n. 72 (Amoen., vol. vi, p. 407), 

 (1763) ; Junonia atlites, Walker, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1895, p. 453, n. 31, Moore, 

 Lep. Ind., vol. iv, p. 69 (1899). 



The larva in Java feeds on a species of Achyranthes, Natural Order 

 Amarantacese, and in South India on Hygrophila and Barleria, Natural 

 Order Acanthacese. 



36. Precis orithya, Linnaeus. 



Papilio orithya, Linnseus, Sysfc. Nat. Ins., ed. x, vol. i, pfc. 2, p. 473, n. 94 

 (1758) ; Cramer, Pap. Ex., vol. i, p. 28, pi. xix, figs. C, D, female ; pi. xxxii, figs. 

 E, F, male (1775) ; Cynthia orithya, Westwood, Donovan's Ins., China, new edition, 

 p. 64, pi. xxxv, fig. 2, female (1812) ; Junonia orithya, Walker, Trans. Ent. Soc. 

 Lond., 1895, p. 454, n. 34 ; Moore, Lep. Ind., vol. iv, p. 71 (1899); Precis orithya, 

 Butler, Ann. and Mag. of Nat. Hist., seventh series, vol. viii, p. 200, n. 12 (1901). 



The larva has been recorded in the Himalayas to feed ou Antirrhi- 

 num Orontium Linn., Natural Order Scrophularinese ; in South India 

 on Hygrophila, Natural Order Acanthacese ; and in Ceylon on acanthads. 



37. Precis hierta, Fabricius. 



Papilio hierta, Fabricius, Ent. Syst., Suppl., p. 424, n. 281-2 (1798) ; Junonia 

 hierta, Moore, Lop. Ind., vol. iv, p. 75 (1899); Papilio cenone, Cramer (ncc Linnceus), 



