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Dysphania poeyi. 



Deileptena poeyi Gueriii, Voi/. ib: hi Cuquillc, PI. xix., fig. ?>. Tvjio in H. ('. 

 Offack. 



Hazis mars Boisd., Ent. de i' Astrolabe, Pt. 1, Lep., p. 205. 

 „ „ Boisd., Voy. de la Goquille, Zool., vol. ii., p. 283. 



Euschema mars Wlk., ii., p. 408. 



Hazis martiaria Guen., PhaL, ii., p. 19(1. 



In this form the white belt consists of three large spots and one small contiguous 

 white spot. In the hindwings there is a small whitish spot. Underside of tlie fore- 

 wings with a broader white belt; of the hindwings with an interrupted submarginal 

 orange fascia. 



Dysphania semiflava sp. nov. 



tj. Foreivlngs : hyaline bhiish wliile, with the veins and all the usual markings 

 purplish black ; costa concisely dark ; discal spot large, oblong, followed towards anal 

 angle by a small oblong lilotch lietween first and second median, and this again by a 

 narrow inwardly oblique blotch to, inner margin ; these blotches are preceded by four 

 hyaline blotches, the two uppermost of which are the largest and clearest, the lower 

 two duller and cur\-ing inwards towards base ; they are followed by six hyaline blotches, 

 the upper three flattened, oblong, the fourth square, the lowest two small, close to anal 

 angle ; the apical one-third is occuiiied by four oblong lunate hyaline blotches. 



Hindtvings : with the base, the costa narrowly, all the veins, a broad central blotch 

 from costal vein to near inner margin, a zigzag submarginal line, an irregular row of 

 black spots between the veins and a marginal row of lozenge-shaped spots, all black ; 

 base of wing beyond basal bar, and the two spaces beyond the submarginal band 

 opposite the cell, pale bluish ; all the rest of the wings bright yellow. 



I have made the description from what is probably the ordinary form : the other 

 S has no hyaline blue at all in the hindwings, and not only so, but the whole basal 

 one-third of the forewings bright yellow, the two pale spaces before the discal sjiot 

 being partly bluish and partly yellowish. P'ace and front of collar yellow in both 

 examples ; frontlet, collar, tips of patagia, and base of abdomen black ; patagia, thorax, 

 and base of abdomen whitish blue in the one, wholly yellow, like the abdomen, in the 

 other. 



Both (J i from Kias. 



Expanse of wings : 78 mm. 



'J'he species is especiallv distingnisliable by the outline of the hindwings, which 

 are not rounded, Init straight from the inner angle to the third median, with deep 

 indentations between the veins ; at the end of the third median is a prominent blunt 

 elbow, from which to tlie anal angle the hindmargin is wavy. 



Dysphania supergressa sp. nov. 



Closely allied to I), imildi/iuiiis Guer. and J), recessa Wlk. ; but while recfssa 

 has no vellow at all, and m.alai/anus a iimall blotch at anal angle and along inner 

 margin, in supergressa. the gilded area extends as far as the second median nervule, 

 forming a large and cons]iicuous anal blotch. In markings and shape of wings there 

 is no difference. 



Two ? ? , one from Borneo, 78 mm., as large as the other species, the other from 

 Gunong Ijau, Perak, only (),> mm,, darker than the Bornean example and with only 

 one spot in the centre of the hinilwing. It is possible that this latter represents 

 Guende's minervaria. 



