EHOPALOCERA MALAYANA. 



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Genus STIBOGES. 



Stiboges, Butler, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1876, p. 308. 



The interesting species, on which this genus is founded, is only known to me by 

 Mr. Butler's description and figure, both of which are here reproduced : — 



"Allied to Ahisara, aspect of Xi/mphidiuin." * 



" Wings with rounded outer margin broad, costal nervure of iirimariea terminating abruptly at about 

 the middle of the costa, opposite to the end of the discoidal cell ; subcostal with five branches, the last two 

 forking to apex ; upper radial emitted from the inferior margin of the subcostal near its origin ; lower 

 radial nearly equally dividing the disco-cellulars, which are concave ; second and third median branches 

 emitted near together ; precostal of secondaries short, oblique, directed backwards ; costal nervure short, 

 straight, oblique, terminating at basal third of costa ; subcostal forking beyond the end of cell, the ui)per 

 fork runumg close to the margin from the second third of costa ; radial emitted close to the subcostal, 

 reducing the upper disco-cellular to a point ; lower disco-cellular long, oblique, nearly straight ; second and 

 third median branches emitted nearer together than the first and second ; body slender ; eyes prominent ; 

 antennae slender, submoniliform ; palpi very small. Type Stiboges mjmphidia, n. sp." 



1. Stiboges nymphidia. (Tab. XXIV., fig. 11.) 



Stiboges nymphidia, Butler, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1876, p. 309, n. 1, t. xxii. f. 1. 



" Wings semitransparent, snow-white ; primaries with broad costal and external dark-brown borders, 

 sinuated internally ; two u-regular submarginal series of unequal white spots ; secondaries with a broad 

 outer border, undulated internally ; a sinuated disco-submarginal lunulated pale brown line ; a submarginal 

 series of elongated white (jiwts ; body dark brown ; wings below as above ; legs, palpi, and venter white." 



Exp. wings, " 1 inch 9 lines." 



Hab.— "Penang (Eoberts)." 



Fam. LYCiENIDvE. 



Lijcanida, Stephens, 111. Brit. Eut. Hanst. i. p. 74 (1827); Westw. lutrod. 



Mod. Class. Ins. ii. p. 858 (1840) ; Gen. Diuru. Lep. p. 468 (1852) ; 



Bates, Jouru. Entomol. vol. i. p. 220 (1861); ib. vol. ii. p. 177 



(1864); Trimen, Ehop. Afr. Austr. p. 217 (1866): Moore, Lep. 



Ceyl. i. p. 69 (1881) ; Marsh. & De Nic. Butt. lud. Burm. and 



Ceyl. vol. i. p. 18 (1882). 

 PohjommatidcT, Swains. PhU. Mag. ser. 2, vol. i. p. 187 (1827). 



Front legs perfect in the female, in the male more or less imper- 

 fect, the tarsi often wanting one or both of the tarsal claws, but densely 

 spined beneath. 



Pupa secured by the tail and a girdle across the middle. 



Fig. 53. — Anterior legs (showing tarsi) 

 of Lavqndcs elpis. 



* An extensive Neotropical genus focussed in Tropical America. 



May 31, 1884. 



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