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Show 1882.] ASIATIC BUTTERFLIES. 759 It is possible that the two may be merely climatic variations of the same species; but until this is proved the name weranga cannot be suppressed. Col. Lang's collection, containing the types of his A. weranga, is now in m y custody. YPTHIMA BOLANICA, n. sp. U P P E R S I D E dark brown, distinctly glossed with purple in some lights, as in Collerebia. Fore wing with a prominent black ocellus, with two large bluish-silver pupils and narrow yellow iris, ringed with dark brown, then with mottled greyish more broadly, and then again with dark brown. Hind wing with one black ocellus very prominently pupilled with bluish silver, and two bluish-silver specks near anal angle, being the pupils of obsolete geminate ocelli, a sub-marginal sinuous dark-brown line ; the margin of both wings narrowly whitish, defined on the inside with dark brown ; the cilia brown. U N D E R S I D E greyish white, covered more or less with fine reddish-brown strise : fore wing with the ocellus as on upperside : hind wing with six ocelli; the first three in a line from the costa, small, the third minute, the fourth between the first and second median branches, large, the fifth and sixth geminated at the anal angle, all prominently pupilled with bluish silver as on the upper-side ; the cilia brown; the margin of both wings pure white, inwardly defined by a brown line, then a whitish mottled line, broadest at costa of fore wing and ending at the fifth ocellus of the hind wing; two brown lines, one on each side of the ocellus of the fore wing, and meeting below it continued on the hind wing as a single narrow band, on which the first three ocelli are placed, and terminating just beyond the third ; a short brown line from the costa of fore wing defined exteriorly with whitish, and again another brown line continued across the hind wing to the abdominal margin, and on the latter wing defined exteriorly with whitish. Expanse 1*6 inch. Taken by Lieut.-Col. C. Swinhoe (in whose collection the type specimen is) at Mach in the Bolan Pass. DELIAS FLAVALBA, n. sp. Male. U P P E R S I D E white; costal and outermargins narrowly black: fore wing with the nervules beyond the cell defined with black, and all except the submedian nervure bordered on both sides with blackish irrorations, most broadly along the discocellular nervules; the outer margin also with a border of blackish irrorations, broadest at the apex. Hind wing with the nervures black, with a triangular patch of blackish irrorations on the margin at the extremity of each nervule, and with slight black irrorations along the median nervure, the subcostal nervules and the space between them forming there an indistinct bar; a bright yellow patch filling the space between .the costal and subcostal nervures at the base of the wing, and a larger patch of the same colour at the anal angle. U N D E R S I D E white : fore wing with the outer margin black, broadly at the apex, where it has three indistinct yellow spots at its inner edge ; a broad, irregu- |