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obsolete, mid dilated at the end of the cell into a more or less rounded patch, thus 

 apijearing club-shajied ; while in the former case tiie area becomes gradually broader 

 towards the end of the cell, and has therefore more the form of a long triangle. 



Liun6 described the Amboina form in 1758 as hcUconia; this name has therefore 

 to stand for the species. Cramer's silraiKlra (1782) is the same form, while jiis 

 moirijchii (1779) is a diflerent form of the present species. 



The habitat Coromandel which CIramer gives to mom/cha is certainly erroneous. 

 The figure agrees best in colour with the paler form of the Javan subspecies, while 

 in the form of the white patch on the forewings it comes also near the Indian sub- 

 species ; but the figure is not correct enough to enalde us to sa)' with certainty 

 which subspecies of heUconia it represents. The name monyclxi, therefore, is not 

 acceptable for any subspecies, and we have accordingly treated it as a query synonym 

 of that jiale aberration of the Javan A. hdiconia intacta which Colonel 8winhoe has 

 described as a distinct species under the name of fa/Yf, and also as a query synonym 

 of the Indian heUcoind clafata. 



^^'alker referred the name of hdiconia to a species which Fabricius has described 

 as pitplios, though Linne's descriptions of keliconia in Syst. Nat. and in Mas. Lwl. 

 Ulr. do not agree with pa/ihox. The Walkerian erroneous identification has been 

 rectified by Anrivillius with his usual exactness in 1882 {Reccnsio Lep. Mies. Lad. 

 Ulr.); but in spite of this rectification, we find in Hampson, ^foths of India I. 

 p. 501, the Walkerian mistake repeated with the addition of an erroneous habitat. 



K. .T. 



". A. heliconia clavata. 



{;) nuilariia Allani^ iiioi,;/rl,,i Cramer, P'lji. Ex. II. p. h2. t. 131. f. f (IT??) (Coromandel Inc. en: ; 



Jig. main). 

 Pludaeiia NncUin hellcimia, E.spcr {iiec Linne, 1708), Eur. Schm. IV. 2. p. 441). n. 1i;p2. t. 139. f. 5 



(178G). 

 Hypsa Hilciimlra, Walker {m-c Cramer), Cat. Lrp. lid. B. it. II. p. 450. n. 7 (1854) (r.r p.) ; Sloore, 



Cat. Lep. JnK. Mux. E. I. C. II. p. 293. n. G73 (1859) (Penang ; nee Java). 

 llyjisa moHt/cha, Moore {uec Cramer), I.e. p. 294. n. G74 (1839) (Cherra Pimgi) : Swiiib., Tr. Ent. Sac. 



Loud. p. 15. n. 080 (1890) (Khasia Hills); Hamps., .Uullix of Lid. I. p. 499. n. 1137(189-.') (,v-/..). 

 Hypm clarata Butler, Tr. Ent. Sue. Loud. p. 317. n. 10 (1875) (Hongkong ; Silhet) ; Moore, ./mini. 



As. Soc. Jieiiri. p. 235. n. 32 (1884) (Cachar); Hamps., /.,-. p. 500. n. 1138 (1892) (Hongkong ; 



Cachar ; Silhet) ; Swinh., I.e. p. 15. n. 087 (1895) (Ivhasia Hills). 

 Ilyp.sa veualha, Swinhoe, Tr. Ent. Sue. Loud. p. 180. u. 94 (1890) (Upper Tenasserim). 



Sir George Hampson, Lc, says that there are in North India two closely allied 

 species of Asota, one which he calls monycha, Cram., and another which he records 

 as clavata Bntl.: the latter is said to differ from the former in the palpi having a 

 black lateral stripe, in the veins below the costa of the forewing being streaked with 

 white, and in the hindwing having two black postmedial sjiots, besides tiie spots at 

 the end and in the middle of the cell. Sir George is certainly right tluit tiiore 

 occur specimens in North India which have no " postmedial "" spots on the hindwing, 

 and also individuals which arc almost devoid of white nervuhir lines to the forewing, 

 but the specimens with those spots present arc sometimes devoid of the lines and 

 the individuals which have the lines marked are just as often without .the s])ots. 

 The difference in the palpi as given in Moths of India is incorrect ; the Indian 

 specimens have, like the individnals of heliconia from all the other localities, a black 

 dorso-lateral stripe' to the first and second joints of the palpi, and the third joint is 

 wholly black except some linHish scales at the iiuier side. Fu some individnals the 



