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hand, whicli eorresjwnds to the subapic-al short baud ou tlie upperside iu cly)iusne 

 (Boisd.), is represented aljove by a uiiinbcr of white scales, and this confirms my 

 opinion that ciyiaene and pidckra are very closely allied insects and perhaps will 

 be proved one dav to be geographical forms of the same species. 



The iiiidex iu the Triug Museum vary, moreover, in the length ami width of the 

 orauge-red patch to the hindwings. In one 'male the portion of the patch before 

 the longitudinal fold is reduced to a j)oint, in a second specimen it is a little larger, 

 aid in a third it is still larger and of half the size of that iu Oberthiir's tigure of 

 his Episleme staudiu;jeri. El. d'Eni. XIX. p. 22. t. 3. f. 15 (1894j (Kina Halu), and 

 increases iu other example- gradually till it reaches the size of the patch of Oberthiir's 

 figure. The male specimen.s with the i)atch to the hindwings smallest agree well 

 with some North Kornean fenudes in our collection, which themselves do not differ 

 from Swiuhoe's figure of the type of .S\ Itenperloides (W'lk.j iu Cat. Lep. Met. O.ef. I. 

 \>. 162. t. 5. f. 3 (1892). Though we have in the Tring Museum no inlergraduates 

 between hesperioides (Wlk.) and pidckra (Butl.) in the female se.x, but only in the 

 male sex, I must treat the e.xamples with large orauge-red patch to the hindwings 

 and those with a small patch as mere aberrations of one sj)ecies, of wiiich the eldest 

 name is hesperioides (VVlk.j. The synonymy of »S. hesperioides (Wlk.) is therefore 

 as follows : — 



Scrobi(fera fiesperioides (Wlk.). 



Euseiiiiu hesperioides Walker, Jmini. l.inii. Sue. Loud. VI. p. 8G (18G2) (Sarawak). 

 ? . Eusemia tricolor Butler, Ami. Mag. N. H. (4). XV. p. 142 (187o) (Sarawak). 



nh. pidckra (Butl); patch tu hindwings broader than in the typical form. 



?. Kusemia piilc/ini Butler, /.<;. p. 143. 1. 18. f. 4 (1875) ("Muhrut, ludhi," loc. err.). 

 J ?. Eusemia stand iiKjeri Oberthiir, Et. d'Eiil. XIX. p. 22. t. 3. f. 15 (J) (1801) 

 (Kina Balu). 



K. .1. 



14. Scrobigera niveifasciata Rothsch. sp. nov. 



Fe.\i.\le. — Upperside : all four wings black; anterior pair with an oblique white 

 transverse band crossing the wings from the costa almost to the inner angle, stopping 

 short just on the submedian nervure. This band is straight and crosses the cell 

 1 millimetre short of the apex, and has a breadth of 3 millimetres at each end and 2 on 

 the disc ; one blue spot on discocellular nervules and another inside the band. Fringe 

 white at apex of anterior and posterior wings. 



Underside same as above, the band being identical in shape and jjosition, but 

 the two blue spots absent. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen above black : head edged all round with white ring ; 

 palpi, legs, and middle of underside of abdomen orange, slightly sprinkled with brown 

 on top joint of palpi and upperside of tibiae and tarsi. 



The hindwings are suddenly emarginate lietwcen lower discoidal and upper 

 median uervure.s. 



Expanse : forewing AM 32 mm. ; KM l!ii nun. ; I'.M 24 mm. 

 hindwing ,, 24 „ ; ,,21 ,, ; ,. 1.) „ 

 IfaL •• Borneo" ; 1 ? (ex Coll. Kelder). 



'ihi-i species differs especially from semperi (iM'ld.) in the ni\uli narrower band to 

 forewings, which is the .same above and below and is white instead of orange, by the 

 absence of the blue glo.ss to hindwings and abdomen, by the le.';? extent of white fringe 

 to hindwings, and bv tlie entirelv vellow legs and under.side of abdomen. W. H. 



