( 19' ) 



The claspers resemble those of inops much more than those of 'niarinoreu ; they 

 are broad and outwardly convex at the base, PI. IV. fig. 29 (hutleri Swinh.) ; the 

 aiiical half is narrow, strongly chitinised, somewhat twisted, and bent down to form 

 a strong hook. There are only a few hairs on the inner side of the clasper. The 

 harpe is very slender, twisted, and much curved, and is dorsally between tip and 

 middle slightly denticulate. 



The stridulatory patch of thick scales on the liindwing is more or less scjuare, 

 and generally of a black colour, but becomes often yellowish buff anteriorlv behinil 

 the costal nervure. ' K. .1. 



42. Neochera dominia (Cram.). 



Pluilaeiia Bumbi/.r dominiit Cramer, P(qi. Exot. III. p. 123. t. 263. f. \. ]'. (1782) (Coromandel). 

 Noctua chiom Fabriciu.s, Sprc. Ins. II. p. 213. n. 20 (1781) (Ind. or.) : id., Eiil. Si/sl. II. p. 10. 



n. 34 (1793) {Si/n. et var. cxel.). 

 Neochera dominia Hvibner, Verr.. hek. SrhnuH. p. 17.3. n. 1784 (181(3); Butl., Tr. Eiil. Soc. Lmul. 



p. 32'.t. n. 6 (1875) (Coimbatoor, S. India) ; Snell., Tijilsehr. v. Enl. XXXI. p. 121. n. 3 (1888). 

 Hiipsa. dominia, Ilampsiin, Mollis of India I. p. 4ft9. n. 1136 (1892) {Localities erroneous). 



Tliis insect occurs in South India only ; Kampson records it by mistake from 

 Sikkim, Assam, Burma, and Ja\a. The differences between dominia and the North 

 Indian hutleri are not \ery important, and are only such of degree. Though the 

 absence of the orange colour from the head, thorax, two basal segments of the 

 abdomen and from the base of the forewings, the entirely white upperside of the 

 forewings, and the long blue-black streaks on the hindwings, between the median 

 and submedian veins, distinguish dominia at once, I have little doubt that dominia 

 is nothing else but the South Indian form of that widespread species of which 

 eugenia, basilissa, hutleri, etc., are subspecies, considering that all those distinguish- 

 ing characters are very inconstant in hutleri and allies, of which we have long series 

 of individuals. Certain hutleri approach dominia very closely in the orange colour 

 being much reduced, in the forewings above being almost pure white, and in the 

 posterior spots of the macular marginal border to the hindwings being produced 

 towards the base. We have not seen any specimens of Neochera from the districts 

 between Calcutta and ^Madras, where probalily specimens occur which overbridge 

 the gap between dominia and hidleri. If this toras out in futm-e to be so, there 

 will be only one species of the rfowi?i(a-type, and the name of dominia will have 

 to stand for that species; for the present dominia must be kept separate specifically. 



The other " species " of Neochera which belong to the cZowiMiia-type (see above) 

 are all subs[)ecies of one species, the eldest name of which is eugenia (Cram.). 



K. J. 

 4;>. Neochera eugenia butleri Swinh. 



Hyjmt dominia. Walker {nee Cramor. 17K2), Lep. Met. B. M II. p. 44.S (1854) (E. Indies, N. India, 



8ilbet ; m e Java). 

 Neochera dominin, Moore, Cal. Lep. Ins. .Mus. E. /. C II. p. 295. n. 677 O^aO) (Cherra Piuiji : 



itec Java). 

 Neochera nuirmoreii, Moore (;ifc Walker, 18.56), P. Z. S. p. 1177 (1867) (Cborra Punji) ; But!., Tr. Ent. 



Soc. Load. p. 329. n. 5 (1875) (p.ji.; Silhet, N. India, Maulmein) ; id., III. Tijp. Sj>. Lep. /let. 



B. M. V. p. 43 ( ? , nee (J ). t. 87. f. 1 1 ( ? ) (1881). 

 Neochera eugenia, Snellen (,/.r Cramer, 1782), Tijdschr. r. Enl. \S.X\. p. 120 (1888) (Exp.; 



Rangoon). 

 .Weorliera ImlUr, Swinlioe. Col. I., p. III. 11.,/. I. p. H4. n. 377 (1892) (Assam, .Silhet, Cambodia). 

 Ilijpsa butleri, Hampson, .)lotlis of India I. p. 499. n. 1 135 (1892) (Manlmein, Penang). 



We have this form from the Khasia and Naga Hills, Burma, the Shan States, 

 and the .Mahu I'enin^ula ; Swiuhoe record.-- it from Cambodia. 



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