20 L. de Niceville — Butterflies of Hongkong in Southern Chma. [No. 1, 



(1780 j ; Zemeros fiegyas, Walker, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1895, p. 459, n. 54; Papilio 

 allica, Fabricins, Manfc. Ins., vol. ii, p. 52, n. 510 (1787) ; Zemeros phlegyas indicus, 

 Fruhstorfer, Berl. Ent. Zeitsch., vol. xlii, p. 333 (1897) ; Zemeros confucius, Kirby 

 (nee. Moore), The Entomologist, vol. xxxii, p. 31 (1899). 



Papilioflegyas vras originally described from China, i.e., Southern 

 China, probably from the Canton region in which Hongkong is situated, 

 as this is the region from which all the old writers received all the 

 species from China which they described. Mr. Fruhstorfer doubts 

 Cramer's locality and records Z. ^^ phlegyas " from East and West Java 

 only. He names the North Indian form Z. phlegyas indicus, but Indian 

 specimens are identical with those from China. Mr. Kirby records 

 Z, Confucius, Moore, from Hongkong, a species originally described from 

 the Island of Hainan off the coast of China. Whether this species is 

 a good one or not I am unable to say, as I possess no butterflies from 

 Hainan. Dr. Holland says that it is a good species. In India the 

 larva feeds on Msesa, Natural Order Myrsinem. 



55. Abisara. echerius, Stoll. 



Papilio echerius, Stoll, Cramer's Pap. Ex., Suppl., vol. v, p. 140, pi. xxxi, figs. 

 1, lA, male; IB, female (1790); Ahisara echerius, Walker, Trans. Ent. Soo. Lond., 

 1895, p. 459, n. 55; Papilio odin, Fabricins, Ent. Syst., vol. iii, pt. 1, p. 56, n. 175 

 (1793) ; Lycaena seenodice, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett., p. 23, n. 174 (1816). 



I have not included in the synonymy given above the Papilio corio- 

 lanus of Fabricins, as it was described from " The Indies," and is said 

 to have a common [on both wings] ferruginous band, which does not 

 apply to the present species. Dr. Butler says it is well figured in the 

 unpublished "Icones" of Mr. Jones, a book not available in Calcutta. 

 The larva of the closely-allied A. fraterna, Moore, in Southern India 

 on Emhelia and Ardisia, Natural Order Myrsinese; in Ceylon A. prunosa, 

 Moore, feeds on Ardisia of the same Natural Order. 



Family LYC^NID^. 



56. Gerydus CHiNENSis, Felder. 



Miletus chinensis, Felder, Verb, zool.-bot. Gesellscb. Wien, vol. xii, p. 488, n. 

 146 (1862) ; Reise Nov., Lep., vol. ii, p. 284, n. 364, pi. xxxv, figs. 35, 36, female 

 (1865) ; Gerydus chinensis, Walker, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1895, p. 460, n. 57. 



The transformations of no species of Genjdus is known. 



57. Neopithecops zalmora, Butler. 



Pithecops zalmora, Butler, Cat. Fab. Lep. B. M., p, 161 (1869); Neopithecops 

 ealmora, Walker, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1895, p. 460, n. 58. 



