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C.penthesilia; forc-wings with the markings of the latter species, hind- 

 wings most like methypseq,, but ■with a broader external black margin ; 

 nnder side similar to that species, but with the white marginal line more 

 deeply scalloped and better marked, and the pale markings generally 

 whiter. Sumatra. Palembang Eesidency. No. 413. Named in honour 

 of the wife and elder daughter of Surgeon Julius Maohik, of the Dutch- 

 Indian army. 



PAriLiONiDa:. 



Ixias flavipennis, Smith, sp. nov. — Upper side: both wings orange- 

 yellow; from the base, extended over about two- thirds of the wings, 

 shaded with gray, the nervures and remainder of the wings dark brown. 

 Under side : both wings yellow, mottled with brown ; anterior wing, 

 with a black spot at the end of the cell, and an irregular sub-marginal 

 row of brown spots confluent, extending from the costa to the inner 

 angle ; posterior wing with a sub-marginal row of brown spots com- 

 mencing on the costa between the nervures and extending to the third 

 median nervule, and a black spot on the first disco-cellular nervule. 

 Expansion, 2 J. inches. Hab., Mount Dempo, 4000 feet. Type in Mus. 

 H. G. Smith, Esq. 



Amnosia eudamia $ , Smith, sp. nov. — Uiiper side: both wings brown ; 

 anterior wings crossed from the centre of the costa to the inner angle by 

 a broad brownish-white band, beyond the band the wings are darker 

 brown ; posterior wings, with a sub-marginal row of five spots (smaller 

 than in decora $ ), outside of which are two irregular dark brown linos, 

 and inside one dark line. Under side ; both wings lighter brown than on 

 the upper side, with similar markings to decora, of which it may be a 

 variety, but it differs from the female decora in the lighter shade of the 

 brown on the upper side of the wings, in the colour of the band on the 

 anterior wings, in the size of the spots on the posterior wings, and on the 

 under side in the absence of the three spots within the cell of the posterior 

 wing, and of the first of the four sub-apical spots on the anterior wing of 

 decora, and, in addition, it is somewhat larger. Expansion, 3J inches 

 Hab., Sumatra. Type in Mus. H. G. Smith, Esq. 



Papillo /■frl)esi, Smith, Ehto. Month. Mag. p. 234 (1882-83).— Upper 

 side : dark brown, almost black, the margins between the nervures with 

 lunular white spots, very narrow on anterior wing, much broader on 

 posterior wing, which is without tails ; anterior wings with longitudinal 

 rays on each side of the nervures of light brown, extending from the 

 middle to the exterior margin; posterior wing with a row of three 

 brownish-gray lunular spots between the median nervules, and a spot 

 at the anal angle, above which is a row of three small faintly-marked 

 spots of same colour. Under side : anterior wings rayed as above, but 

 paler ; posterior wing with a longitudinal red spot at the base, divided 

 by the precostal nervure, which is black, and a small red spot below the 

 costal nervure; a broad band of ochreous yellow, with a row of black spots 

 in the middle, extending across the wing between the median nervules, 

 and a small spot of ochreous yellow beyond ; a black spot at the top. of 

 the band next the anal angle, three blue spots near the exterior margin, 

 from the costal nervure to the median nervule. Expansion, 4 inches. 

 Hab. Banding Agong, Sumatra. This species belongs to the Memnon 

 group, in which, however, there is nothing which resembles it. Type in 

 Mus. H. G. Smith, Esq. 



P.apilio alhoUneatus, mihi, sp. nov.— Allied to P. saturnus, Guer. 

 (nepheUs, De Haan); differs from that species in the greater width of 



