( 338 ) 



reduced: there is often only a square spot in the cell and a tlexnose macular band 

 on the dise. 



llab. Sikkim, 1 ? ; Assam, 3 c?, 1 ? ; Bnima, 2 6; Malacca, 2 cJ, 2 ? : Borneo, 

 4 3; Sumatra. 



The Borneo specimens are apparently not distinguishable from Indian ones. 



K.J. 



^j. A. paphos leuconota. 



Aijanais heli.-onia, Snellen (iiec Linnaeus, 1758), Tijthchr. e. Ent. XXII. p. 78. sub u. 3i5 (1879). 

 //ypsa leuconola Snellen, I.e. XXXI. p. 135. n. 23. t. 2. f. 2. 2a (1888) (Java : Sumatra). 

 .ly«Ha/'s Icucmiola, id.. I.e. XXXVIII. p. 182 (1896). 



Differs from paphos paphos in the forewing being paler in colour and having 

 the veins less white, in the black markings of the hindwing being very small and 

 partly absent, in the head and thorax having nearly the colour of the forewing, and 

 in the pale abdomen being above banded with black. 



We have some specimens, said to be also from Java, which have the base of 

 the forewing and the body as bright orange as paphos paphox, and the black spots 

 of the hindwing well developed, but smaller than they are in paphos paphos. 



It is worthy of note that paphos leuconota diflers from paphos paphos in a 

 similar way as the Javau heliconia intacta does from the Indian heliconia clavata. 



Hab. Java, 2 d", 2 ? ; and, according to Snellen, Sumatra. K. J. 



21. Asota heliconioides (PI. IV. fig. 12). 



Neockero hclietmioidcn Moore, P. Z. S. p. 6 (1878) (Luzon); Kirby, Cut. Lej). Hit. I. p. 390. u. 9 



(1892) (Luzon). 

 Neoehera htlkonoides (!), Pagenstecher, Iris UI. p. 9. n. 19 (1890) (Palawan). 

 Ihjlim hdieonioides, Swiuhoe, Cat. Lep. Bet. Oxf. I. p. 88. n. 393 (1892) (Philippines). 



Swinhoe, I.e., was the first to recognise that this species has nothing to do with 

 the genus Neoehera. In structure A. helieonioides is closely allied to A. paphos, 

 and agrees in the pattern of the hindwing especially with paphos paphos, but the 

 black colour is much more extended. However, the shape and colour of the 

 forewing remove heliconioides so far from paphos that there cannot be any doubt 

 about the specific distinctness of the two insects. 



Our series of specimens is much too small to enable us to say whether the 

 species has developed into subspecies. Our seven specimens show some individual 

 variation in the amount of grey on the hindwing, while an eighth specimen, from 

 Mindanao, lent to us by Dr. Standinger, has the hindwing nearly exactly marked as 

 paphos paphos, and represents most ]u-obably a separate subspecies. 



Hab. Philij)iiine Islands : Luzon ; Mindoro, \ i, \ ? ; Mindanao ; Palawan, 

 4 cJ, 1 ? ; also on Jolo and Balabac according to Dr. Staudinger in litt. K. J. 



22. Asota sericea. 



$. Ilijpm sericea Moore, P. Z. S. p. 3 (1878) (Canara); Hamps., J/oMs -)/ ImL I. p. 503. n. 1149 

 (1892) (Bc)mb.ay; Poona; Canara; Nilgiris); Kirby, Cut. Iajk II,t. I. p. 388 (1892) (Canara). 



? . DamaliH eomwui Moore, I.e. p. 4 (1878) (Canara); Waterh., Aiil. II. t. 132. f. 7 (1883); Uamps., 

 Moths of Intl. I. p. 502. n. 1146 (1892) (Canara; Nilgiris). 



Damalis sericea Swinhoe, I.e. p. 292. n. 42 (1885) (Poona, Nov.: Bombay, t)ct. Nov.). 



Agaiiaia concana, Kirby, I.e. I. p. 386. n. 2 (1892) (Canara). 



