grassy places, fluttering and sailing through the air. Suck the sap of wounded trees* Males 

 iigbt for the females."* 



2. Athyma larymna, vnr. £ . (Tab. XVL, fig. 1 6 .) 



Umeniiis Lttrytrma, Doubleday and Hewitson, Lieu. Dinru. Lep, t. 85, f. 1 il850), 



Athyma Larymna, Daub. A Hew. Gen. Diura. Ley. p. 274, n. 7 (1850) ; Horsf. A Moore, Cat. Lep. Mus. E.I.C. 

 i. p. 172, n, 352 (1857) : Druce, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1878, p. 844, a. 1 ; BntL Trans, Linn. Soc. ser. 2, 

 Zoo], vol. i. p. 510, n. 1 (1877). 



Mule and Female. Wings above dark fuscous, with the following dark cream-coloured markings t :— 

 anterior wings with a basal streak followed by two spots in cell, and a large subtriangular spot at end of 

 cell; two large subapieal spots divided by the upper discoiilal nervule, and preceded by a small subcostal 

 liuem- spot; ft large discal spot between the second and third median nerrules, and two contiguous spots 

 about centre of inner margin, which are divided by the submedian nervure ; two submarginal series of 

 small spots, the inner one waved and commencing near costa, the outer one commencing beneath the lower 

 subeoatnl nervule, but fading into pale fuscous beneath the first median nervule; fringe alternately ^ivyi^b 

 from beneath apex; posterior wings with :i transverse macular fascia before centre, a transverse series of 

 subconical spots placed between the nervule s, gradually enlarging towards abdominal margin, and situate 

 on the outer portion of disk and a pale fuscous submarginal line. Wings beneath brownish ochraceous, 

 the pale markings more or less clouded ; anterior wings with the cellular spots fused into a single fascia, 

 convex but deeply notched above : the spot at end of cell elongated, and preceded by an upper subquadrate 

 spot j discal spots as above, the two series of submarginal spots as above, but of the inner series the two 

 apical spots fuscous, surrounded by greyish, and the outer series obsolete till beneath the lower discoidal 

 uervule, but then regular and distinctly greyish — this wing is also ornamented with a number of dark 

 fuscous streaks and spots ; posterior wings marked us above, but with an additional transverse basal fascia, 

 curved anil attenuated towards costal margin, tb»; central fascia detlexed and continued on inner side 

 of submedian nervure, the pale fuscous submarginal fascia above whitish beneath, and the fringe somewhat 

 broadly alternately greyish. Body above dark fuscous ; thorax with an anterior cream-coloured fascia, and 

 abdomen with two fa&eia? of the same colour, one basal and broad, the second subapieal and narrow. 



Exp. wiugn, J 7ti millim. 



Hab. — Malay Peninsula ; Malacca tPiirwiiJ — Brit. Mus.) — Java (Jirit. Mns.) — Borneo (Druce). 



I did not meet with this species in Province Wellesley, nor have I found it in any of the 

 collections made there which I have since had the opportunity of examining. One male 

 specimen, collected by Capt. Pin will in Malacca, is my sule knowledge of the species in this 

 fauna. 



* Allusion has already been inade to the pugnacity of butterflies (ante, p, 01). In Britain this has long since been 

 recorded. Thus Mr. Knap p, in his 'Journal of a Naturalist 1 U#2t>), remarks, "A few of our lepidoptcrom creatnree, 

 especially the common white butterflies of our gardens, are contentious animals, and drive away a rival from their haunts. 

 W e see theru progressively ascending into the air, iu ili<Uu1, unlit-filing contest"; and he also instances two species of our 

 Lyra nid<£ ns of particularly combative nature. Hawonh records n similar observation with respect to the "Purine Emperor" 

 iApatnra iris). In Labium Mr. CoUingwood speak* of their 11 bullies with «iw another, in which they whirl round each 

 other with Uie greatest rapidity, and appear tu be incited by the greatest ferocity" {' Humbles of a Naturalist,' p. 103) ; and 

 Mr. J. M. Jones ('The Naturalist in Bermuda,' p. 120} describes Junmiia cmnta as '*a mOBt pugnacious little creature, 

 and appears to love a quart el, for you may see thn-o or four of tliem ascending in the air and buffeting each other, now 

 rising, now falling, unremittingly continuing their Burial warfare." 



t These have been incorrectly delineated quite while in my figure, which was taken from a drawing made by 

 Mr. Wilson of a Mai ace an specimen in the British Museum. 



