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Scrobigera .lord. gi^n. nov. 



c? ? . Foi-elicad without distinct i-ouical jiroeessus. Palpi liairy, exi-('))t leniiiDal 

 joint, which is more than three times as long as broad. Femora hairy. 



J with a longitudinal middle fold to tiie hindwings densely tilled with long 

 hairs ; anal segment very large. 



Xeuration: t'orewing with vein o arising before the apex of cell; interspace 

 between :i and 4 twice as wide as that between 4 and 5. Discocellnlar veinlets 

 to hindwings arched, forming together an angle the point of whicli is directed 

 towards tlie outer margin ; vein 5 originating from this point; the fold of median 

 cell is forked, and bv joining the discocellulars circumscribes together with tliem 

 a rhoniboidal space; veins 3 and 4 either together from angle of cell — amatrix 

 (VVestw.), or 3 before the apex of ceW—dijineiie (Boisd.). 



Type : Scobigera avmtrix (Westw.), ('(ib. Or. Ent. p. G8. t. 33. f 4 (1848) (Assam). 



Easilv recognised by vein 3 of the forewings arising before ajiex of cell, and 

 by the peculiar form of the discocellnlars of the hindwings. 



Other species of this genus are : — 



Scrobir/era alboiiuirrjinata (Moore), jldciciJiata (Hoisd.), senqieri (Keld.), cl'/inene 

 (Boisd.), hei^perioides (Wlk.), and ndcania (Butl.). B. albonumjinata (Moore) and 

 opheltes (l)ruce) (syn. : ciiiididemarginala I'onj.) are not separable as species, as 

 there exist all iutergradations between the two forms; the Andaman specimens have 

 apparently the white border ne\er so widi' as it occurs amongst Burmese examples ; 

 opheltefi (Druce) has to stand as aberration of idbomarfjinata (.Moore). 



S.flaviciUala (Boisd.) is unknown to us. 



■\Vith ^. semperi (Keld.) (1874), based on a feiiude, Swinhoe's iiulioiiaUl, Cat. 

 Lcp. llel. Oxf. I. p. 162. n. 754. t. 5. f. 2 (1892), described from a male, is identical. 



S. dymene (Boisd.) varies consideraljly in the size of the markings on the 

 fore\ving : in the Java specimens the two median s^wts are usually well separated at 

 the median vein, but sometimes they touch one another; in ^Malacca specimens the 

 spots are slightly separated ; in Burmese and Assamese examples the spots form an 

 uninterrupted, but at the veins constricted, band ; these latter specimens are^\■alker's 

 proxiiiui, which I must treat as a subspecies of dymene (Boisd.). 



The spot in the apical half of the forewing of S. dymene (Boisd.) has disapiieared 

 from the upperside in the Bornean representative, which I identify with Butler's 

 pidchra, Ann. Mag. N: H. (4). XA'. p. 143. t. 13. f. 4 (1875). Butler gives as 

 habitat of jnddira Muhrut, India; Hampson, Maths of India II. p. 150 (1894), 

 writes " VMeerut." In the Triug Museum are certa.hifem.ale8 from Borneo which 

 agree very well with the figure and description of pulchra. The fringe of the 

 hindwings of pvldira is said to be white; none of our specimens have it entirely 

 white, liut our series of S. dymene (Boisd.) includes examples with the fringe all 

 white and others with the fringe all black, so that the extent of white at the fringe 

 is certainly not of specitic value in these forms. Therefore I do not hesitate to 

 consider the haliitat "Mnlirut, India," as erroneous, the more so as the Britisli 

 Museum did nol receive the tyjic of j ml clira dirvclly from tlie colleclor, but got 

 it as a " second-hand specimen." 



Oil I hi' vmderside of the forewings of puldira there is only one band as above, 

 or tliere appears another, short and -linear, )iaud outside the cell between the 

 subcostal and upper median veins, eillicr well marked or faint, sejiarHted from the 

 median band or connected witli it in IVoiil and bebiiid ; in oue fi'inalc this additional 



