419 
1895.] L. de Nicevillo & Dr. L. Martin — Butterflies of Sumatra. 
Batoe, 3,000 feet, and even higher. It is easily recognised by the fine 
white lines before and beyond the large white spot at the end of the 
discoidal cell of the forewing. 
199. Athyma amhara, Druce. 
Limenitis selenophora, Snellen ( nec Kollar), Midden-Sumatra, Lepidoptera, p. 16, 
n. 1, pi. i, figs. 4, 5, male (1892). 
Snellen as selenophora. Is a local race of A. selenophora , Kollar, 
that species occurring in the Himalayas, Bhutan, Assam, Tavoy in 
Burma, and Java. The present species is found in the Malay Penin¬ 
sula, Sumatra, and Borneo. The male differs only from A. selenophora 
in having a submarginal or outer-discal pure white macular instead 
of a very obscure pale fuscous fascia on the upperside of the hind¬ 
wing. The females of the two species are indistinguishable. It is the 
commonest species of Athyma of the higher mountains and the Central 
Plateau, especially plentiful iu December and January; found also in 
Indragiri. 
200. Athyma scbbata, Moore. 
Grose Smith as subrata and nefte. Hagen as nefte. Staudinger as 
nefte . Distant. We have here to do with a very interesting group of 
species. In Sikhim, Bhutan, Assam and South India the male is much 
marked on the upperside with yellow, and is the A. inara of Doubleday 
and Hewitson (= inarina , Butler). This species gradually merges in 
Burma into A. asita , Moore, specimens absolutely intermediate between 
A. asita and A. inara occurring. Further south in the Malay Peninsula, 
Sumatra, Nias, and Borneo A. subrata ( = nivifera , Butler), occurs. The 
characters given by Butler to distinguish it from A. nefte , Cramer, hold 
good, so it may be accepted as a good local race. In Java A. nefte 
alone occurs. A. rufula , de Niceville, from the Andaman Isles, and 
A. glora, Kheil, from Nias, are distinct species. A. inara and A. asita 
have one female only, which is yellow. A. subrata has two females, 
the one is yellow, the other is brown. It was described from the brown 
form of female, its male is the A. nivifera of Butler. A. nefte is also 
dimorphic, one form being yellow the other brown. The two females 
of A. subrata and the two of A. nefte cannot be distinguished, the males 
alone are different, and the species are kept distinct by me on the 
male sex alone. A. rufula appears to have only one form of female. 
As noted above, this is a common species of the plains, not occurring 
higher than Namoe Oekor. The males are found on forest roads, the 
females inside the forest, of which latter the brown form is less rare 
than the yellow. The brown form almost certainly mimics Neptis 
vikasi, Horsfield, but there is no large yellow Neptis in our area that the 
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