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NEORINA. By H. Eruhstorfer. 
corded from Changyang in Central China and West China from 5—10 000 ft. It is not improbable that yama 
will still be discovered also in Formosa. 
N. muirheadi is a Chinese species which has spread from Central and West China to Hainan, Burma 
muirheadi. and Tonkin. Its ultimate discovery in Formosa would not be surprising, muirheadi Fldr. (vol. 1, p. 90, pi. 
felderi. 33 a), described from Nfngpo in Tsekiang, is a form from the plains, also not rare on Hainan, whilst felderi 
segonax. Leech comes from the mountains of Omeishan. segonax Hew. is probably an extreme dry-season form, and 
scgonacia. segonacia Oherth. a diminutive race from Kiangsi. — lahittei Janet (99 b), known from Tonkin, where I 
lahittei. f ounc [ p, j n April at about 1000 m. in the Mauson Range and afterwards in August and September more 
in the valley, is beneath darker and bears narrower longitudinal bands, which are more white than yellow. 
9 with rounder wings, paler, with round black ocelli showing through above and a very indistinct yellow- 
bhima. grey longitudinal band on the upperside of the forewing. —- bhima Marsh., only known to me from Moore’s 
figure, appears to differ from lahittei in the more distinct yellow bordering of all the ocelli on the upper 
surface, particularly those of the First discovered by Bingham in Upper Tenasserim, it was afterwards 
taken by Doherty also in Upper Burma. Occurs in March and April, and again October to November, and 
everywhere at low altitudes, not exceeding 600 m. 
31. Genus: Westw. 
Approximates — though only structurally — closely to Lethe, with which it has in common that 
the lower discocellular of the hindwing touches the furcation of the upper and middle median, and further 
the unusually short cells of both wings. On the other hand Neorina differs from Lethe in having the lower 
discocellular of the forewing more strongly angled proximally and in the long costal of the hindwing, with 
which, however, that of Neope already forms a connecting link; precostal of the hindwing far beyond the 
point of origin of the subcostal and boldly incurved basally. In one species there are also traces of a 
narrow precostal cell. Costal and subcostal separate, not coincident. Nothing has been published concerning 
the earlier stages. The genus is represented in the Macromalayan region by two species and on the continent 
by three. Two groups. 
Group Neorina. 
Hindwing rounded. Cell of the forewing short. Upper discocellular of the forewing distinctly recognizable, lower 
very long, moderately incurved proximally. 
hilda. N. Hilda Westw. (94 d) differs beneath in the paler yellow bands and in the presence of a large black, 
white-pupilled ocellus proximally bordered with yellow, and two smaller blue-dotted subanal eye-spots. The 
apical part of the hindwing less broadly margined with yellow then above, in the subanal area the inter¬ 
space of the submarginal brown-black double line filled up with grey-violet. In the very rare $ the eye- 
spots on the under surface are larger, and there are further some accessory ocelli between the median veins. 
hilda is a characteristic butterfly of the sombre oak and chestnut forests of the eastern Himalayas, where 
it occurs from June to September from 7—9000 ft. It flies up and down the forest-paths, settling either 
on the ground or on tree-trunks. The $ was found on a bare hill, flying on a sunny morning in the rainy 
season. Sikkim, Bhotan, Assam. 
Group Hermianax nom. nov. 
As a rule larger than Neorina, hindwing with long tooth at the upper median. Upper discocellular extremely short, 
indistinct, beneath excurved far proximad; upper and middle discocellular of the hindwing of equal length, whilst in Neorina 
the upper is much longer. Cell of the forewing much narrower and longer than in Neorina. In the clasping-organs the unusually 
long narrow valve is noteworthy for a distinctly constricted point, adorned with small teeth, recalling the European Brintesia 
( Satyrus ) circe L. Uncus strongly curved, powerful, the lateral clasps unusually small, pointed. Type of the group: N. 
latipicta Fruhst. 
pupillata. A. lowi is split up into a number of easily distinguishable races, of which pupillata Fmhst. (94 c) 
is the most striking on account of the enlargement of the apical ocellus of the forewing; at the same time 
a supplementary eye-spot is placed between the middle and lower median, and is also occasionally repeated 
beneath, while it is present in no other species or form. The apical eye-spot in pupillata, as in all the other 
branch races of lowi, is beneath much smaller than above, but in pupillata exclusively there is here sometimes 
an accessory eye-spot. Otherwise the under surface of both wings only differs from the upper in having a 
further, relatively large, round, yellow-ringed anal eye-spot and a fine grey powdering on the distal part of 
latipicta. the forewing and the basal part of the hindwing. Nias. — latipicta Fruhst. is larger than pupillata, the yellow¬ 
ish white spot in the anal angle of the forewing, particularly in examples from West Sumatra, more than 
twice as broad and the white intraneural dots on the forewing likewise larger. The apical eye-spot on the 
underside of the forewing is much smaller than in pupillata, and also the anal eye-spot of the hindwing. 
West and North-East Sumatra. The butterflies have a rapid, jerky, uncertain flight and are fond of the sap 
exuding from wounded trees. When feeding they rest with folded wings, latipicta inhabits the plains, is 
neophyta. rather rare and ascends on the spurs of the mountains to an elevation of about 600 m. — neophyta subsp. 
