( 5" j 



Hah. Kina Balu, N. Borneo (obtained from Messrs. Staudinger & Bang-Haas) ; 2 ? , 

 This strange and beautiful species is an exact mimic in appearance and marking 

 of Delias pandemia Staud., after wliich I named it. W. K. 



ARCTIIDAE. 

 33. Eligma malgassica Kotlisdi. sp. nov. 



?. Upnerside: t'orewings — tlie Ijrown costal area narrower than in the other 

 species of Eligma, its hind edge faintly bordered with yellow; it is, close to the 

 base and again 9 mm. from the base, dilated rectangularly, then is parallel to costa 

 for about 8 or 9 mm. ; at apex of cell it is indented, and from there becomes some- 

 what broader again for about 3 or 4 mm., and then runs towards the apex of the wing, 

 this apical portion being dentate at the veins ; the three basal black spots of the 

 other species are here not rounded, but transverse, and form an interrupted zigzag 

 line ; the subbasal black line of E. hypsoides Wlk. and duplieata Am-iv. is very thin, 

 strongly undulate, and not interrupted ; the black line on the posterior part of the 

 disc runs from the inner margin to the base of vein 3, being twice strongly cm-ved, 

 then turns roimd in the direction of the two black spots which stand between veins 3 

 and o, so as to form with them an almost continuous line ; in the cm-ve behind apex 

 of cell the line is double. The submarginal black spots are linear, transverse, and 

 oblique. The middle of the wing behind the costal brown area is whitish, as in 

 hypsoidcn Wlk., while the rest of the wing is fawn-colour, with a whitish zigzag band 

 outside the subbasal black line and two more zigzag lines between discal black lino 

 and outer margin. Hindwings yellow, as in the other species, with a brownish black 

 outer border, which has at apex a breadth of G mm., runs a little along co-sta, and 

 is strongly tapered off behind, scarcely reaching as far as extremity of vein 1''. 



Undevfiide : forewings yellow from base to 4 mm. beyond apex of cell, apical 

 region lirown. Hindwings as above, marginal border .shorter. 



Outline of wings nearly as in E. narciss'iis (Cram.). 



Palpi, head, thorax, abdomen, and legs similar to those of E. daplicnln Auriv. 



Expanse : forewing AM 30 mm. ; KM 14 mm. ; PM 21 mm. 

 hindwing „ 22 „ ; „ 20 „ ; „ 12 „ 



IJ(di. Morondava, Madagascar (Last) ; 2 ? . 



This species is easily distinguished from the African E. hypsoides Wlk. and 

 duplicaid Auriv., Ent. Tidskr. 1892. p. 191. f. 1'', by the apex of the hindwing being 

 without a white patch, and from ihe Indian E. narcissus (Cram.) by the outline of 

 the costal area of the forewings, the subbasal black line, the form of the discal line, 

 the much nanower black border to the hindwings, and on the underside by the 

 basal two-thirds of the forewings being yellow. W. R. 



34. Eligma narcissus indica Pothsch. subsp. nov. 



?. Differs from typical E. narcissus (Cram.) from ("hina as follows: forewings 

 shorter and broader; if we take the breadth of the wing as 1, the length is 2i in 

 indica and 3 in narcissus ; outer margin much less olsliipie Iietweeu veins 1 and 3 ; 

 the white colour behind the costal area is more extended, and the posterior region of 

 the wing is of a paler Isabella colour; the anterior portion of Ihe median inter- 

 rupted transverse black line is shorter and broader, and the submarginal spots are 



