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anticarum proxime post ala3 medium cmisso ramisque earum mediauis ultimis multo raagis 
distantibus, cellula ideo longiore. Unica species est generis, quae in regiones adeo septen- 
trionales. Afhyma euim Nycteis et Cassiope, Meuetr. Amurenses ad genus Apaturam 
pertinent." (Felder, I. c.) 
This is a common species throughout China, from Ningpo to Moupin. All 
the specimens I have received agree in all important characters with a 
beautiful coloured drawing of the type of var. ningpoana in Baron Felder's 
collection, kindly sent to me by Dr. Rogenhofer, of the Natural History 
Museum, Vienna, and also "with de Niceville's description as given above. 
In some examples the discoidal streak is almost linear throughout and the 
terminal portion hardly detached ; in others the outer third of the streak is 
broadly sagittate and distinctly, though not widely, separated from the main 
portion. I have never seen any example of A. suljnfia with the discoidal 
streak so broad and the terminal portion so widely removed as represented in 
Cramer's figiu'e of the type, which was probably from South China. 
" KoUar states - that Carl Freiherr von Hiigel brought this species from 
Masuri ; there is, however, as far as I am aware, no other record of its occur- 
rence out of China." [de JSlceviUe.) 
Athyma disjuncta. (Plate XVII. tig. 3, d .) 
Athyma disjuncta, Leecli^ Entomologist, xxiii. p. 33 (1890). 
F\iliginous black, -wit-h wliite markings. Discoidal streak of primaries terminating in a somewhat 
triangular head, and followed bj' an oblong transverse dash ; beyond and nearer the costa 
are three other oblong spots ; central band composed of eight spots, the sixth of which is 
round and larger than the others, but the fourth is very small or quite absent ; submarginal 
series of linear spots only faintly indicated towards costa, followed by black quadrate spots. 
Secondaries with central and submarginal bands, the latter composed of linear spots, slightly 
decreasing in size towards costa ; between the bands and also before outer margin are some 
black quadrate spots. Under surface of primaries blackish, marked with tawny along the 
nerves ; basal and central spots as above, but the fourth spot of the latter series more clearly 
defined ; marginal series large, those nearest the costa nearly obliterated, and the others 
intersected by a tawny transverse band ; secondaries tawny, with a black-edged white streak 
from the middle of the base to the costa, followed by some black dots ; central band bordered 
■with blackish, interrupted, and extending only to the abdominal fold ; submarginal baud as 
above, but the inner edges of the spots are rounded and bordered with blackish ; between 
these bands is a series of conspicuous short longitudinal black dashes, the lower ones edged 
externally with white ; a fairly broad blackish band on outer margin, preceded by an 
interrupted white one. 
Expanse, S 68 millim., $ 76 mUlim. 
The bands on upper surface are very like those of A. sitlpitia, but the 
