6 L. de Niceville — Butterflies from the Indo-Malayan region. [No. 1, 



Description: Male. Upperside, hotli wings dull brown, slightly- 

 tinged with ochreous. Foreiving with a discal macular band consisting of 

 seven separated portions, the four anterior ones elongated, whitish, dusted 

 with fuscous, the three posterior ones rounded, white, tinted with violet 

 in some lights ; three subapical small violet-white spots arranged in an 

 equilateral triangle, with the apex of the triangle towards the outer 

 margin of the wing ; a large quadrate ochreous spot in the first median 

 interspace within the discal band, a smaller one in the submedian 

 interspace bisected by the internervular fold, a narrow streak on the 

 inner margin. Hindwing with a broad even discal white band, strongly 

 tinted with violet in some lights, extending fi'om the costa to near the 

 abdominal margin, divided by a highly ii'regular fascia, anteriorly 

 fuscous, posteriorly broader and paler, the fascia broken at the third 

 median nervule; a complete marginal series of whitish spots between 

 the veins. Underside, 60^/4 winqs marked and coloured almost exactly as 

 ill H. 'pringondani, Fruhstorfer, from Java. Female, as in the male, but 

 the violet suffusion of the upperside rather more prominent. 



Closely allied to H. schoenbergi, Staudingcr, from South-East 

 Borneo, and to H. pringondani. It differs from both in the violet 

 reflections of the upperside ; it agrees with the latter in the fuscous 

 fascia of the hindwing on the upperside placed on the discal white band 

 being strongly broken and dislocated in the middle, thereby differing 

 from the former. The markings of the forewing differ a good deal in 

 detail in H. pringondani and H. sumatrana, as will be noted by a reference 

 to the figures and descriptions of the two species. 



Described from two males and three females in Dr. Martin's and 

 my collection, one of which was taken in the virgin forest at Selesseh 

 in September. It may be a mimic of the common species of EiUhalia 

 {Felderia) of the group of cocytina, Horsfield. 



5. Neptis clinioides, n. sp., Plate I, Fig. 8, c?. 



Habitat: Battak Mountains, N.-E. Sumatra. 



Expanse ; c?, 2 , 2-2 inches. 



Description: Male and Female. Upperside, 60^^ wmg's deep black, 

 markings ci'eamy- white. Forewing with the discoidal streak wide, joined 

 to the triangular spot beyond, just " nicked " or indented anteriorly at 

 the end of the cell ; the discal series consists of seven spots, placed in 

 two groups, the upper of three, the lower of four spots, the groups well 

 separated, the uppermost spot very small, linear, the two following 

 large, conjoined, divided only by the upper discoidal nervule, the four 

 posterior spots large, contiguous ; the submarginal macular Hue 

 obsolete iu the male, composed of small linear streaks in the female. 



