I I L. do Nic^ville— Butterflies of Hongkong in Southern China. [No. 1, 

 30. Athyma asita, Moore. 

 A asita Moore, Proo. Zool. Soc. Load., 1858, p. 13, n. 8; Pantoporia asita, Moore, 

 Lop. Ind., toI. iii, p. cclxiii, figs. 2, male; 2a, female (1897); Athyma nefte, 

 Walker (nee Cramer) Trans. Eat. Soc. Lond., 1895, p. 456, n 44. 



This insect lias never been bred. 



31. Athyma selenophora, Kollar. 



Limenitis selenophora, Kollar, Hiigel's Kaschmir, vol. iv, pt. 2, p. 426, n. 1, pi. 

 vii, figs. 1, 2, male (1844); Athyma selenophora, Walker, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1895, 

 p *457 n 46; Pantoporia selenophora, Moore, Lep. Ind., vol. iii, p. 205 (1897); 

 Athyma bahula, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1858, p. 12, n. 3, pi. i, fig. 2, female. 



The Larva in South India feeds on Adina cordifolia, Hook, f., 

 Natural Order Bubiucese- 



32.* Neptis antilope, Leecb. 



Neptis antilope, Leech, The Entomologist, vol. xxiii, p. 35 (1890); Butt, from 

 China, Japan, and Corea, vol. i, p. 197, pi. xviii, fig. 2, male (1892). 



Mr. Leecb records having taken two specimens of this species at 

 Hongkong in March, 1886. It has never been bred. 



33. Neptis columella, Cramer. 



Papilio columella, Cramer, Pap. Ex., vol. iv, p. 15, pi. ccxevi, figs. A, B, 

 female (1780); Neptis columella, Walker, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1895, p. 454, n. 36 ; 

 Andrapana columella, Moore, Lep. Ind., vol. iii, p. 220 (1897) ; Neptis ophiana, 

 Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1872, p. 561 ; Neptis martabana, Moore, Trans. Ent. 

 Soc. Lond., 1881, p. 310; Neptis ophiana, var. nilgirica, Hampson, Journ. A.S.B., 

 vol. lvii, pt. 2, p. 353, n. 57 (1888); Andrapana columella singa, Fruhstorfer, Berl. 

 Ent. Zeitsch., vol. xliv, p. 286 (1899). 



This butterfly bas never been bred. 



34. Neptis eurynome, Linnaeus. 



Papilio eurynome, (? Papilio hylas, male, nee. female), Linnaans, Syst. Nat. Ins., 

 ed. x, vol. i, pt. 2, p. 486, n. 173 (1758) ; Limenitis eurynome, Westwood's ed. 

 Donovan's Ins. China, p 66, pi. xxxv, fig. 4, female (1842) ; Neptis eurynome, Moore, 

 Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1874, p. 570 ; Lep. Ind., vol. iii, p. 244. (1897) ; Walker, 

 Trans. Ent. Soc. Loud., 1895* p. 454, n. 35; Papilio leucothoe, Clerck, Icones Ins., 

 vol. iii, pi. v, fig. 4( ); Donovan, Ins. China, first edition, pi. xxxv, fig. 3, 



female (1799) ; Papilio aceris, Esper, Eur. Schmett., vol. i, pt. 2, pi. lxxxii, fig. 1, 

 female (1783) ; Neptis hainana, Kirby {nee Moore), The Entomologist, vol. xxxii, p. 

 31 (1899). 



The synonymy given above is mainly taken from Dr. Moore's Lep. 

 Ind. Linneeus' Syst. Nat. Ins., tentb edition, is not available, so I am 



