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Tucker also recently took it in Tavoy. ‘Capt. C. T. Bingham obtained a male on 
the Donat range in January, and another in the Thoungyeen forests towards the 
end of the year, and there are specimens in the Indian Museum, Calcutta, from 
Sylhet and Moulmain” (Butt. Ind. II., 272). 
It also occurs in the Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, and Labuan, Borneo. 
Curnese Species or Murwarepa.—M. Nepenthes (Char. N epenthes, Grose Smith, 
Entom. Mo. Mag. 1883, p. 58; id. Rhop. Exot. Char. pl. 2, figs. 3,4. Habitat. Siam. 
—M. Rothschildi (Char. Rothschildi, Leech, Lep. China, etc., p. 128, pl. 14, fig. 3, ¢ 
(1891). Syn. Char. Ganymedes, Leech, Entom. Suppl. p. 30 (1891). Habitat. 
W. China.—M. Narceus (Nymph. Nareeus, Hewitson, Exot. Butt. I., Nymph. pl. 1, 
fig. 1,4 (1854). Habitat. N. China.—Chusan Island (Capt. Walker, R.N.). Japan.— 
M. Mandarinus (Char. Mandarimus Felder, Reise, Noy. Lep. III. p. 437 (1867). 
Habitat. Shanghai. N. China.—Chusan Island (Capt. Walker, R.N.).—M. Tibetanus 
(Char. Tibetanus, Oberthur, Etud. Entom. XV., p. 11, pl. 2, fig. 10 (1891). Habitat. 
K. Tibet.—M. Menedemus (Char. Menedemus, Oberthur, Htud, Entom. XV., p. 13, 
pl. 2, fig. 9 (1891). Habitat. W. China.—WM. Posidonius (Char. Posidonius, Leech, 
Entom. Suppl., p. 30 (1891); id. Lep. China, etc., p. 127, pl. 14, fig. 4 3. Syn. 
Char. Clitiphon, Oberthur, Htud. Entom. XV., p. 12, pl. 2, fig. 11. Habitat. W. 
China. 
Genus HELCYRA. 
Heleyra, Felder, Sitzb. Akad. Wiss. Wien. xl. p. 450 (1860). Neues Lep. pp. 37, 44 (1861). de 
Nicéville, Butt. of India, etce., ii. p. 45 (1886). 
Imaco.—Male. Wings short, broad. Jorewing subtriangular ; costa arched, 
apex obtuse, exterior margin slightly oblique, almost even, posterior angle rounded ; 
subcostal vein five brayched, first subcostal veinlet emitted at one-fifth before 
upper end of the cell, second at a short distance beyond the end, third 
at fully half beyond the end, fourth and fifth at fully half between the 
third and the apex; upper discocellular very short, slightly bent close to 
subcostal; the two radials from the angle; cell open; median veinlets wide 
apart; submedian vein straight. Hindwing triangularly-ovate; base of anterior 
margin much arched; apex rather pointed, exterior margin convex posteriorly, 
sinuous ; precostal vein curved outward; subcostals and radial emitted together 
from upper end of the cell; the cell open. Body robust, thorax hairy; palpi 
obliquely porrect, compactly scaled, second joint hairy above, apex pointed ; fore legs 
of the male hairy ; middle and hind legs scaley ; fore legs of the female smooth, fore- 
tarsus slightly thickened beneath at the apex, the apical joints each with a 
terminal short spine on each side; eyes naked; antennz rather long, slender, with 
a short thick ovate club, which is finely tricarinated on its inner side. 
Type.—H. Chionippe. 
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