EURASIAN & AUSTRALIAN NEPTINI 117 



Holotype $. Western China : chasseurs indigenes des missionaires de Ta- 

 Tsien-Lou, 1906 (ex Oberthur coll.). 



Allotype $. 1910, otherwise same data as holotype. 



Described from 36 <J, 31 $ from many localities in Szechwan. Examples from 

 Central China show an approach to ssp. pryeri. 



Oberthur used melanis for an infra-subspecific category, so the name is not avail- 

 able for the pryeri subspecies from Szechwan. It is curious that he attributed it to 

 N. hicilla (recte rivularis), since its possession of a hindwing postdiscal band, albeit 

 sullied and shifted out of its normal place, and of black subbasal spots on the under 

 surface of the hind wing proclaim it to be unquestionably an aberration of N. 

 Pryeri. 



Neptis alwina (Bremer & Grey) 



Neptis alwina alwina (Bremer & Grey) 

 (Text-fig. 94) 



Limenitis alwina Bremer & Grey ; 1852 : 59. Environs de Pekin. 

 Limenitis alwina Bremer & Grey ; Bremer & Grey, 1853 : 7, pi. 1, fig. 4. 

 Neptis alwina alwina (Bremer & Grey) Stichel, 1909 : 175. 

 Neptis alwina subspecifica Bryk, 1946 : 35. Korea, syn. n. 



Eastern Siberia (Ussuri), Korea, North, Central and Western China. 



N. alwina kaempferi (de l'Orza) 



Limenitis kaempferi de l'Orza, 1869 : 24. $ Japan. 



Neptis alwina kaempferi (de l'Orza) Stichel, 1909 : 175, pi. 53c. 



Barely separable from preceding subspecies. 

 Japan. 



Neptis dejeani Oberthur 

 (Text-fig. 95) 



Neptis dejeani Oberthiir, 1894 : 15, pi. 7, fig. 61 [very poor]. Ta-Tsien-Lou (R. P. Dejean), 



Tse-Kou (R. P. Dubernard). <$ type BMNH. 

 Neptis alwina dejeani Oberthur ; Stichel, 1909 : 175, pi. 53b. 



Western China (3 <$, 3 o Szechwan), S.W. China (Yunnan, large series from 

 many localities). 



PHAEDYMA C. Felder 



Phaedyma chinga sp. n. 



(PL 2, fig. 18, Text-fig. 96) 



6* wing shape normal, fore wing length 35 mm. Venation near to Ph. aspasia (Leech), with 

 vein 8 of the hind wing ending on the termen just below the apex, but the precostal vein is 

 quite different, being long, oblique and curved distad. Upper surface of fore wing with yellow 

 ' hockeystick ' markings, differing from all other species in having the upper postdiscal band 



