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Hippocrita vulijaris caricae, Hiibner, Sainml. Ex. Schinett. I. t. 19(J. f. 1-4 (1806). 



Damalis caricae, id., Verz. hek. Schm. p. 172. u. 1780 (1816). 



Hypsa {Damalis) caricae, Walker, Cat. Lep. Ihl. B. M. II. p. 454. n. 1.3 (1854) (N. India ; Java ; mc 



Ceylon, Penang, according to Butler, Tr. Eul. Sue. p. 319, 1875). 

 Hijpsa alciphroii, Moore, Oil. Lep. Bet. .Uus. E. I. C. II. p. 292. n. 669. t. 13. f. 6 (/.). (>a (j-.) (1859) 



(Java ; N. India; Canara); id., Jo«™. .l.s. S. B,ng. p. 235. n. 29 (1884) (Cachar); Snell., Tijdschr. 



r. Eul. p. 130. n. 13 (1888) ; Pagenst., Iris III. p. 11. n. 22 (1890) (Palawan) ; Swinh., Tr. Eul. 



Soc. Loud. p. 15. n. 691 (1895) (Shillong) ; Snell., Iris VIII. p. 140. u. 114 (1895) (Deli, 



Sumatra). 

 Damalis alciplinai, Moore, P. Z. S. p. 598 (1877) (Pt. Blair, And. Is.) ; id.. I.e. p. 847 (1878) (Burma ; 



Tenasserim); id., Lep. Cet/l. II. p. 52. t. 102. f. 1. hi. lb {L, p., ^, ? ) (1882) (Ceylon) ; Swinh., 



P.Z.S. p. 292. n. 40 (1885) (Bombay, August to November, very plentiful ; iuiportaiil hiolorjical 



note). 

 Hypsa caricae, Piepers & Snellen, Tijilschr. v. Enl. XX. p. (i. n. 22 (1877) (Batavia, common ; /. and p. 



dcscr.) ; R6ber, ibid. XXXIV. p. 327 (1891) (Flores). 

 Damalis alcifron (!), Swinhoe, Tr. Ent. Soc. Land. p. 180. n. 95 (1890) (Burma). 



Many individuals from the Malayan Islands are still paler as regards forewings 

 than the specimens from Ceylon and S. and N. India, while in the colonr of the 

 head and thorax the Malayan individuals stand intermediate between caricae and 

 euroa. There is no line of distinction between the two forms, and the specimens 

 from Celebes and Tenimber, which we have enumerated under euroa, could just as 

 well be regarded as caricae caricae. 



Hah. In the Triug Museum from (Jeylon ; S. India; Bhutan; Assam; Burma; 

 Tenasserim ; Malacca ; Penang ; Andaman Islands ; Formosa ; Sumatra ; Borneo ; 

 Palawan; Philippine Islands ; Java; Lombok; iSambawa; Snmba; Flores; Adonara ; 

 Timor. K. J. 



2. Asota plaginota. 



Bypsa caricae. Walker (««c Fabricius, 1775), Cat. Lep. Het. B. M. II. p. 454. n. 13 (1854) (ex p.). 

 Hypsa plaginota Butler, Tr. Ent. Soc. Loud. p. 320. n. 19 (1875) (India) : Snell., Tijdschr. r. Ent 



XXXI. p. 131. n. 15 (1888). 

 Agamis plaginota, Kirby, Gil. Lep. Het. I. p. 386. n. 3 (1892) (India). 

 Damalis plagiuohi, Swinhoe, Cat. Lep. Het. Oxf. I. p. 94. n. 415 (1892) (India). 

 Hypsa alciphron, Hampson, Moths of India I. p. 502. n. 1148 (1892) {ex p.). 

 Asota ijlaginutii, Rothschild & Jordan, Nor. Zool. III. p. 206. t. IV. f. 46. 47 (abdomen) (1896). 



We have already jjointed out, I.e., some structural characters in which this 

 species differs widely from A. caricae (= alciphroii), with which it has been con- 

 founded. 



The base of the forewing has the four black dots normally present in the species 

 of Asota ; the first and especially the third dot are liable to obliterate ; between the 

 subcostal and the median nervnres there is one black dot, and behind the median 

 nervure two more. The white patch at the apex of the cell is generally rather 

 elongate, but varies much in size in both sexes ; it is not always larger in the ? than 

 in the c?, as Dr. Butler states (I.e.); in front of this j)atch, just behind the arcole, 

 there appears in most specimens another, but small, white spot, as in A. paliura. 

 All the veins are white, the submedian one especially broadly so, but in many indi- 

 viduals veins 3 and 4 are white only close to the discal white patch. The variability 

 of the hindwing in respect to the black markings is considerable ; in all our speci- 

 mens there is one rounded black spot at the end of the cell and two postmedial 

 spots ; the greater number of individuals have, moreover, snbmarginal black spots, 

 which often form a more or less complete series ; the spot between veins 7 and 8 

 and that between veins 2 and 3 are the largest; the spot before and that behind 



