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NTMPHALID^. 
and Corea " (P. Z. S. 1887). While this paper was passing through the press, 
Vol. 3 of Romanoff's ' Memoii'es sur les Lepidopteres ' was received in 
London, including a paper by Fixsen, in Avhich 93 Butterflies from the Corea 
are enumerated, and among them Apatura princeps, Fixsen, which is 
identical with my S. {A.) cauta. 
Genus HELCYRA. 
Helmjra, Felcler, Sitzb. Ak. Wiss. Wien, Math.-Nat. C]., xl. p. 450 (1860) j de Niceville, 
Butt. lud. ii. p. 45 (1886). 
" Head small ; eyes naked ; antenna medium, the club obtuse ovate. Palpi scaly, ascending, twice 
as high as the head. 
" Wings with the cells open. 
" Fore iving with the subcostal uervure four-branched, the first branch in the middle of the cell, 
the second beyond the extremity, of it, the third arising before the apex of the wing (and 
the fourth very short), the first discocellular rather long, longitudinal, and with the two 
discoidal nervules arising from the same point. 
" Hind u'inr/ with the proccostal nervure emitted beyond the origin of the subcostal uervure. 
" Genus with the neuration of the fore wing sufficiently distinct from that of other Nymphalinac, 
perhaps allied to Apatimi, ' {de NiceviUe, I. c.) 
Helcyra superba. (Plate XX. fig. 2, $ .) 
Helcyra superba, Leech, Entomologist, xxiii, p. 189 (1890). 
Closely allied to H. hemina, Hewitson, but it differs from that species in the position and size of 
the black markings on ujjper surface. Nearly the whole of the apical half of the primaries is 
black, and this has its inner edge more deeply indented; the discal spots are two in number, 
but the larger is broadly linear. On the secondaries there are eight black spots, arranged one 
below the other in a transverse series ; the second of these is the largest, and the first, third, 
fifth, and sixth are often faint and sometimes entirely eliminated ; the submarginal lino is 
broad and dentate throughout from costa to anal angle. Fringes white, preceded by a narrow, 
fuliginous-grey line. Und(!r surface shining white ; apical and discal markings of primaries 
faintly showing through from above : on the secondaries is a transverse scries of black luuules ; 
tho.se in the first subcostal and second median interspaces are followed by black spots edged 
internally wilh orange. 
Expanse, d 82-90 millim., $ 92-98 millim. 
In a f(;w examples there is, on tlie under surfixcc of primaries, an orange- 
hord(!re(l l)lack spot in the second median interspace. 
Not uncommon in July at Cliia-kou-ho, and has also occurred sparingly in 
the province of Kwci-chow and at Mou})in. 
