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days some occupation and consolation to the otherwise disappointed 

 collector. All the species are very fond of fasces of all kinds and of 

 sweets, and are often very numerous on pieces of sugai'-cane which the 

 natives have thrown away after removing all the sweet juice possible 

 by mastication or otherwise. They are also very partial to the red saliva 

 of the betel-chewing natives. 



67. Neorina lowii, Doubleday and Hewitson. 



Hewitson as Cyllo lowii. Grose Smith. Snellen as Hipio lowii. 

 Hagen as Hipio lowii. Staudinger. Distant. Kirby. Occurs only in the 

 lower hills and is not very common, and when caught is nearly always 

 in a damaged condition. They are very fond of the juice of some forest 

 trees, which give forth this liquid when the bark is cut or wounded. 

 Every observer who has seen it flying has noted its strong likeness to 

 Papilio helenus, Linnreus. This, however, is not a case of mimicry but 

 of accidental resemblance only, as P. helenus is not a protected butterfly. 

 Dr. Martin considers that in its shape and habits it is very near to the 

 genus Milan ids, being only a gigantic form of the genus. 



68. Amnosia eudamia, Grose Smith. 



A. eudamia, Grose Smith, Nat. Wand. East. Arch., p. 275 (1885). 

 A. martini, Honrath, Berl. Ent Zeit., vol. xxxvi, p. 439 (1891). 



Grose Smith as decora and eudamia. Snellen as decora. Hagen 

 as decora. The late Professor "West wood originally described the genus 

 Amnosia, and placed it in the subfamily Nymphalince immediately before 

 Cyrestis. Kirby and Staudinger retain it in the same position. The 

 late Dr. Schatz placed it betweeu Stibochiona and JSestina. Dr. Hagen 

 has struck out an independent course, and places it in the subfamily 

 Amathusiinte, between Enispe and Clerome. I am of opinion that it 

 should come into the subfamily Satyrinse near to the genus Neorina. 

 The presence of ocelli in the subfamily Nymphalinse is rare, and when 

 found in such genera as Precis, Junonia, Apatura, Cynthia, Rhinopalpa, 

 Doleschallia, Kail i ma, &c, differ in character from the ocelli found in the 

 Satyrime. The yellow form of female of A. eudamia agrees strikingly in 

 shape, facies, and its naked eyes with Neorina hilda, Westwood, the type 

 of the genus, having the veins of the forewing non-swollen at the base, 

 and a broad oblique yellow band across the disc of that wing. In these 

 features it also strongly resembles Melanitis amabilis, Boisduval, from 

 New Guinea. Amnosia differs from Melanitis, however, in having the 

 second median nervule of the hindwing arising at the end of the dis- 

 coidal cell, instead of well before the end ; in this it agrees with 

 Neorina. Amnosia differs from Neorina in the direction of the disco-cellu- 

 lar uervules of the forewing ; and in having the second median nervule of 



