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series, and the pale fuscous submarginal fascial above violaceous beneath, and margined inwardly and 

 narrowly with fuscous; abdominal margin greenish; fringe of both wings as above, and anterior 

 wings ornamented with a number of fuscous streaks and spots. Body above concolorous with the wings - 

 thorax with an anterior transverse bluish- white fascia, and abdomen with a pale lemon-coloured sub -basal 

 fascia ; * body beneath pale obscure greenish, the tibiae and tarsi more or less pale brownish. 

 Exp. wings, cf and ? , 48 to 54 mUIim, 



Hab.~ Malay Peninsula; Penang; Malacca; Singapore (Brit. Mas.)— Sumatra (Brit.Mus.) — Banca.t— 

 Java (Moore) ; Bantam (coll. Dist.) — Borneo (Low — coll. Diet.). 



The only variation I have seen in this species is in the size and hue of the pale markings ; 

 it is probably strictly confined to the Inilo-M alayan region. 



B. Cell of anterior wings more or lets disUucttft cUnwd by a slnuUr, nuherect disco-cellulttr neiruk. 

 b. Sexes alike or similar in colour and tmirkiiufg, 



5. Athyma abiasa, var. clerica. (Tab. XVI., fig. 8 ¥ .) 

 Athyma ahituu, Moore, Proe. Zool. See. 1856, p. 16, n, 15, t. 60, f. 7. 

 Athyma r/mV<i, Butl. Trans. Linn. Soc. acr. 2, Zool. vol. i. p. 540, n. 7 (1877). 



The figure represents the type and only Mai ac can specimen in the British Museum. 

 Mr. Butler has inadvertently described it as a male, but it is clearly a female, and I think 

 probably the other sex of Mr. Moore's species, which is also represented by the typical but 

 solitary male specimen. I reproduce the original description :— 



"Nearly allied to A. abiasa, bnt larger, the spots of primaries more oblique and larger, the sub-basal 

 transverse white band of secondaries narrower ; the diseal series of spots much larger, more inarched 

 above anal angle* forming a waved band, divided by the nervures; a well-marked greenish grey 

 aubmarginal streak. Below mnch paler, with the differences of the upper surface ; submarginal series 

 of liturre replaced by the submarginal streak, which is rosy greyish (not greenish, as above)." 



" Exp. wings, 2 inches 7 lines/ 1 



IIab. — Malay Peninsula; Malacca (Pinwill — Brit. Mus.) — Java (Brit. Mum.). 

 G. Athyma kresna. (Tab. XVL, fig. 8 <f .) 



Athtjma Krema, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1858, p. 12, n. 6, L 50, f. 4 ; \ Druce, Proc. Zool Soc. 1873, p. 844, 

 EU 2; Butl. Trans. Linn. Soc. sor. 2, Zool, vol. i. p. 540, n. 8 U877). 



Male und Female. Wings above dark fuscous or blackish, with the following bluish-white spots and 

 markings : — anterior wings with a cellular streak, sometimes entire, and in some specimens (as the one 

 figured) broken into a basal streak with two following and contiguous spots; a large subtrxangular spot 

 at end of cell; an oblique series of three subapical spots (the central largest), divided by the discoidal 

 nervules, and followed by three linear spots placed between the nervules, with a very small and indistinct 

 spot on inner margin ; the three subapical spots outwardly followed by three linear apical spots ; a large 

 fiscal ovate spot between the second and third median nervules, and a large irregular spot before and 

 a linear spot after the submedlan nervure, at about centre of inner margin. Posterior wings with a 

 transversa macular fascia near hase and a curved outer discal series of subquadrate spots placed hetween 



* These two Iukcjje have been unfortunately omitted in the figure, 

 f Collected by M. Teysmann (Pet. Nouv. Ent. vi. p. 404 (1^74). 



j I have not met with any specimen* with the pale markings so decidedly bluo as in Mr. Moore's figure. 



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