RHOPALOCEllA MALAY AN A. 393 



(ieims EltlOiNOTA. 



Kriunatti, il;il)illf, Ann. Soe. Knt. Delg. xxi. p. ;M (1878). 



Anterior wings moderatoly long, the inner margin longer than the outer, costal margin very KJiglitly 

 sinuate, inner margin distinctly sinuate. Costal nervure terminating on costa nearly op])osite end of cell ; 

 fifth subcostal nervule emitted at about end of cell ; disco-cellular nervules moderately oblique, tiie upper 

 and lower subec^ual in length ; second median nervnle with its base more than twice as far aiiart from that 

 of lower as from that of upper median nervule. Posterior wings about as broad as long, the costal margin 

 obliquely convex, the outer margin irregularly rounded and slightly sinuate towards anal angle. Subcostal 

 nervules bifurcating at about half the distance before end of cell : second median nervule emitted at rather 

 more than twice the distance from lower than from uiiper median nervule, which starts from end of cell. 

 Body long, robust and pilose; palpi large, broad and considerably compressed, the terminal ji.int very 

 short ; antenn;e slender, the apex moderately thickened and curved, not strongly hooked. 



Mon. Mubille, the fouuder of this oenus, included in it the Ilcspn-ia irara, llooiv. but tliis 

 species is structurally distinct, and is the ty[)e of my proposed genus Hidari. 



1. Erionota thrax. (Tab. XXXIV., tig. 17.) 



P<'pilio Thrax, Linuieus, Syst. Nat. i. 2, p. 7!J4, n. 2G() (1707) ; Don. Ins. Iiul. t. -Ji), f. 2 (1800). 

 . Hespen'd Tlini.r, Latr. Euc. Metb. ix. p. 748. n. SS (1823); Horsf. & Moore, Cat. Lep. Mus. E.I. C. vol. i. 

 p. 254, n. .582 (1857) ; Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1865, p. 790 ; Plotz. Stett. Ent. Zeit. xliii. p. 327 (1882). 



Ccm/cipii Thni.r, Snell. Tijd. Ent. xix. p. 158, u. 73 (1870) ; ibid. \\. p. 3 (1877) ; ibid. \\i. \>. JO, n. IGl ( 1878) ; 

 Batl. Trans. Linu. Soc. scr. 2, Zool. vol. i. p. 553, n. 1 (1877|; Godm. & Salv. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1878, 

 p. 041, n. 33 ; Elwes, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1881, p. 009 ; Klieil, Pliop. dor Insel Niiis, p. :-i8, n. 145 (1884). 



Ctj^si/djiii Tlini.i-, Druce, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1873, p. 358, n. 1. 



Krioniita Tlivax, Mab. Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg. \.\i. p. 35, n. 114 (1878|. 



Telerionns Thni.t; De Nic. .1. A. S. Beng. vol. li. p. 05, n. 196 (1882|. 



ilale and Female. Wings above chocolate-brown ; anterior wings with three discal pale ochraceous 

 spots, situate one crossing cell, another beneath cell and between the two lower median nervules, and the 

 third and smallest between the first and second median nervules; posterior wings with the fringe greyish- 

 ochraceous. Wings beneath paler than above ; anterior wings with the disk distinctly darker and spotteil 

 as al)ove; posterior wings with a discal, rounded, macular darker fascia. Body and legs more or less 

 concolorous with wings. 



Exp. wings, J and S , (J8 to 78 millim. 



Hab.- Continental India; Bengal (Horsf. 0^- Moore) ; Sikkim (de Nic.) ; Darjeeling (Plotz).— Malay 

 Peninsula; Province Wellesley (coll. Dist.) ; Perak (Knnst.— Calc. Mus.) ; Suugei Ujong (Durnford— coll. 

 Dist.); Malacca (Biggs— coll. Dist. ; Pinwill— Brit. Mus.).— Sumatra (Snell.).— Nias Island (Kheil).— 

 Billiton (coll. Godm. ^: Salv.).— Java ; Batavia (Snell.). — Borneo (Bruce). — Celebes (Snell.). — China ; 

 Foochow (Elwes). 



The larva and pupa of this species have l)een figured by Horsfield and reproduced lieiv 

 {ant,'a, p. 3G7, f. Ill), and the first is stated, in Java, to feed on the "Pisang {^fus<l ii<u;ulisaiai), 

 November and February." " 



- Cat. Lcp. Mus. E,I.C. vol. i. p. -254. 

 April 30, 188(5. ^ ^ 



