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I submitted the drawing of the male reproduced here to Dr. 0. 

 Staudinger of Dresden, who writes that it agrees exactly with a 

 specimen in his collection from Timor, but that most of the Timorean 

 specimens do not show the three white subapical spots of the 

 forewing, nor the dull orange macular band of the hindwing 

 on the upperside. It agrees very well with the description of the 

 species by Grodart. It probably more or less mimics one of the blue 

 Euplceas when flying ; when at rest its mottled underside, so like that 

 of a dead leaf, proves of sufficient protection. All Ltbytheas rest with 

 closed wings, usually at the end of a dead branch or stick, when 

 they are very difficult to see, unless they have been actually observed 

 to settle. The occurrence of this species on the mainland of Asia 

 is most interesting, as hitherto L. geoffroyi and several named and 

 described local races have only been found in the islands of the 

 Malay Archipelago. 



7. LIBYTHEA LIBERA, n. sp., PI. D, Fig. 6, 6 . 



Habitat : Burma. 



Expanse : $ , 2*2 inches. 



Description : Male. Upperside, both icings rich glossy brown, 

 rather paler towards the base. Forewing with an oblique oval whitish 

 spot outwardly faintly defined with ochreous at the end of the 

 discoidal cell ; a similar round spot in the middle of the first median 

 interspace ; a tripartite subcostal white spot placed about midway 

 between the end of the cell and the apex of the wing, its uppermost 

 portion a mere dot, its middle portion twice the size, its lower- 

 most portion quadrate and very much larger; two rounded spots 

 placed outwardly and below the subcostal spot, divided by the lower 

 discoidal nervule. Hindwing with a large quadrate whitish spot on the 

 middle of the costa ; an oblique discal macular ochreous band formed of 

 four portions, the one towards the apex of the wing the largest. 

 Underside, forewing fuscous-brown, the apex paler and mottled with 

 whitish ; the spots as above, but the subcostal spot completely 

 amalgamated; the basal half of the cell occupied by a dull ochreous 

 band. Hindwing glossy purplish-brown, heavily striated with white ; 

 an oblique quadrate white spot on the middle of the costa bounded 

 posteriorly by the first subcostal nervule ; a white increasing streak 

 from near the base of the wing extending to the middle of the wing 

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