( -^8) 



more prominent. (!)n tlie liindwiiig the bluish black border is deeper concave between 

 veins 4 and 7 than in the female of nnrci^sus, and therefore appears more convex at 

 vein 2. 



Below, the forewings and the apex of the hindwings are paler in colour, and have 

 a feebler bluish gloss. 



Hah. Nilgiri Hills, S. India; 3 ?. W. \{. 



35. Eligma narcissus javanica Rothsch. subsp. nov. 



?. Smaller than narcissus, forewings similar in shape; anterior portion of the 

 transverse black median line as in indica; blue-black apical area of hindwings 

 broader, evenly concave, at vein 4 only 1 millimetre short of cell. Dorsal black 

 sjxits of abdomen very small. 



Hab. Java ; 1 ? . W. R. 



30. Eligma narcissus philippinensis Roihsch. subsi>. nov. 



? . Forewings somewhat broader than in narcissus ; emargination of outer 

 margin to hindwings less obvious. 8ubmargiual spots of forewings much larger than 

 in the other subspecies ; anterior portion of black interrupted median line forming 

 a rounded dot ; white longitudinal streaklike area as in indica ; blue-black apical 

 region of hindwings as broad as in javanica and of the same shape. Posterior tibiae 

 without a black spot. 



Hab. ZMindoro ; 1 ? . \\'. R. 



Oberthiir describes and figures in Et. d'Ent. XVII. 1893. p. 32. t. 1. f. 6, a 

 beautiful moth ft-om Usambani, German East Africa, as Eligma Ine.tepicta, which has 

 a quite different aspect from the other species of the genus. We recently received 

 a feraale specimen of this insect from Nguela, l^sambara, which, on examination, 

 proves that laetepicta Oberth. can very well be referred to Eligma Hb., as it exhibits 

 only the following slight structural differences: the areole is broader, vein 7 comes 

 from below the apex of the areole, and vein (I stands farther from the areole than in 

 iui,rci8sihs, duplicala, and malgassica. 



The species of Eligma Hb. hitherto known lo M-ieiice (and all contained in 

 the Tring Museum) can be distinguished as follows : — 



A. Forewing with two yellow transvcisc bands. E. laetepicta Oberth. from l']ast 



Africa. 



B. Forewiug witliont tliose bands. 



a. A\>ex of hindwing with a white patch. 



a'. Forewing with a single transverse line running from beyond 

 middle of hindmargin to apex of cell. E. hypsoidcs Wlk. from 

 West Africa. We have 2 ? from the Lower Niger. 



b'. Forewing with that line double. E. dupUcaia Auriv., Ent. 

 Tidshr. 1892. p. 191. f 1\ from Cameroons. 



b. Apex of hindwing without white ]iatch. 



c'. Forewing beneath yellow, with apical third brown. E. malgassica 



Rothsch. sp. nov. from .Madagascar. 

 (/'. Forewing beneath brown witli l)lue gloss, extreme base yellow. 

 ' E. narcissus (Cram.) from (,'hiua and its subspecies from South 

 India, .Java, and Mindoro. K. ,1. 



