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llltnj'ALOCKIU MALA VAX A, 



oosta basali postiearnm nivea ; aliter velut supra : corpus ceemleo-nlbitlum ; pedibus ochreis ; antennis 

 fcrrugineis." 



" Exp. alar. unc. 2ft." 



Hab, — Malay Peninsula ; " Singapore (coll. Roberts)." 



This is evidently closely allied to the preceding species. 



12. Neptis eurynome, ear, mamaja. (Tub. XYL, tig. 14 ? .) 

 Nqttt* eurynomt, Weatwood, Don. Ins. China, p. (JO, t, b*6\ fig. 4 (I845J). 



Xepti* uiairtajn, Butl. Trans. Liim. Soc. &cr. a, Zool. vol. i. p. 511, n, |, t. Ixix, fig, S (1877). 



Mule ami Female. Wings above closely resembling the preceding species X. durtfodumt, hut the pale 

 markings more or less tinged with lemon-colour (very strongly so in the specimen figured), the spot at the 

 end of the ceU on anterior wings smaller, but variable in size, and the narrow pale aubmarginal linear 

 fascia, to posterior win#< almost obsolete. Wings beneath warm oehraceous : marking roSL-nibliug those 

 of A . duryodana, but more or less tinged with lecuon-eolour as above, and with the outer pale discal fascia 

 to the posterior wings more mueulur limn in that spucics. 



Exp. wings, S and 9 , 50 to 57 inillim. 



Hah.*— Malay Peninsula ; Province WYlUsUy u-oll. Dist. and Saiier) ; Malacca iPinwill— Urit. Mus.). 



Typical specimens of .V. vimjnome, localised as from N. India (sir) and China, which 

 I have examined, appear to be sufficiently distinct from the European X. uteris, Lep,, to have 

 specific differentiation, though I consider the N, mamojti, Bath, to be better expressed as a 

 variety only of Prof. Westwood's species, t especially aa I have received another very close 

 variety from North Borneo, Even in my Province Wellesley specimens considerable variation 

 is found, such us the basal cellular streak of the anterior wings being either broken, or entire 

 as in the figure here given. 



Genus ATHYMA. 



Athywn, Weatwood, Gen. Dium. Lep. p. s27*Z (1850); Fuld. Neues Lcptd. p. 81, it. 75 ^lBtilj. 



This genus h allied to AV/>fie, [ from which it differs, as clearly pointed out by Prof. Wustwood, in 

 having its species of a " larger size, more robust structure, (with) larger and shorter wings, more squauiosc 

 and obtuse palpi," and especially (as pointed out in the synopsis here given) by the costal nervure of the 

 posterior win^s extending to their apex. The anterior wings have the costal nervure robust, extending to 

 about half the length of the costa ; first and second subcostnl uervules emitted before the end of cell, the 

 first at about two-thirds of its length, and the second a liitle before its apex, the third arising between end of 

 cell and apex of wing, but nearer to the first than to the last ; fourth and hfth bifurcating between the base 

 of third and apex of wing. Lower disco-cellular nervule either more or less obsolete and leaving the cell 

 practically open, § or present and distinct, though very slender, and subcrvct, thus closing cell. 



This, like Neptis t is another extensive genus, but with a more restricted geographical 

 distribution, Tims it is absent from Europe, and also apparently from the Ethiopian region. 



* Of var. mamaja only. 



+ Mr. Butler's <1 esc rip tiou is ** Nearly allien! to X. eu-rytiumC) but always to be distinguished by Lhe narrower esterno- 

 <li*cfll band of white sputa in secondaries ; colouring below rather brighter than in X. anrynvm*." 

 J Of the iluryuihota group. § As in A. jreriux* j] As in A - nefte. 



