( 547 ) 

 4(')'.i. Enpiuangd, labuana. 



*Daphm.-> hiljiiami Rothschild, /;/»■ vii. p. l".!'.). t. 5. f. .'i { ? ) 1><'J4) (Labium ;— coll. Staiulinger). 



? . The similarity witli homeensi.^ and ciye.H.s is, apart from structure, especially 

 evident on the uudersido, where the abdomen lias the red and creamy lateral 

 dots of bonweiisis, and the forewing a similar lirown border and a costal patch 

 of short discal undulate lines. 



Hab. Borneo. 



Three ? ? known to us, (me from Labuun in coll. Standinger (f'/pe), another 

 from "Borneo" in the K. K. Hofmnscnm in Vienna, a third in the Tring Museum 

 from North Borneo (D. Cator). 



CXXVII. RETHEKA gen. nov.— Typus : /tomarod. 



Deilephila, Christoph {nun Laspeyres. 1809), in Rom., Mem. Up. ii. p. 1G9 (1885). 

 Clioerucvmpii. Swiuhoe (//.-,/ Duponchel, 18.3.'>). Tnins. Ent. Sw: Loml. p. 346 (1885). 

 Theretra, Kirby {non Hiibner, 18-_'-.'), Cat. Lr,,. Ihi. i. p. 660 (ISO".'). 



c?. Grnal process large, triangular; a tuft of scales beneath it (scales of 

 labial i)al]ius). Palpus obtuse, rounded in dorsal and in lateral as{)ect. Head 

 with indication of crest. Eye laslu'd, but nut heavily. Antenna iucrassate 

 before hook; this rather abrujjt, not comjiressetl, with the seriated ciliae (cJ) 

 vestigial ; end-segment three times the length of the previous, but not produced 

 into a filiform process. 8pur of foretibia reaching beyond tip of tibia; mid- and 

 hindtibial sjuirs unequal, longer ones less than half the length of the respective 

 tirst tarsal segments ; these without comb ; first hindtarsal segment longer than 

 first midtibial one, and about as long as the hindtibia ; no pulvillus, no 

 paronychium. Wings entire ; SC- and II' of hindwing ou a stalk. 



c?. Tenth segment elongate, simple ; tergite and sternite horizontal, little 

 curved, both obtuse. Clasper elongate sole-shaped ; a patch of rather small, 

 truncate, friction-scales; harpe ending in an obtuse process with parallel sides 

 and concave upper surface (PI. IL. f. 1~). Penis-sheath with an oblicpie series of 

 teeth (PI. LV. f. 11). 



? . Not known to us. 



Early stages not known. 



llab. Western Asia. 



One species. 



4711. Rethera komarovi. 



Deilepliila hniuirori Christoph, in Rom., Men. Lep. ii. p. 169. t. 15. f. '_'. a. b ( ? ) (1885) (Asklmbad ; 



near Ckura) ; id., I.e. iii. p. 54 (1887) (= sHpiilaris) ; id., /..-. v. p. 11. n. 37 (1889) i,Germol); 



id., Bartel, in Riihl, G ro.tssc?im. ii. p. 130 (190U) (Borshom, v.— vii.). 

 *C'li'nror(iniji'i .^lipiiUifis Swinhoe, Tram. Ent. Sac. Loud. p. 346. n. 6. t. 0. f. 1 (1885) (Choman, 



May ; — Mus. Brit.). 

 Chaeiocanipii Mipultirix, Cot. & Swinh., Cat. .\lt>th>: Inil i. p. 16. n. 87 (1887). 

 Thn-itia Loniiti-uri, Kirby, Cut. Lip. 11,1. i. p. 661). n. 115 (1892). 

 Chaci-ocdnipa l.ninaniri, Staudinger c^c Reb.. Cal. Lep. ed. iii. p. 103. n. 760 (1901) (Pont.; Taur. : 



Arm. ; Tura ; Afghauist.). 



c?. Individually somewhat varialde. In the pattern of the body and wings 

 close to Cizara. 



Ilab. Ai'ghanistau westwards to Amasia, northwards to Transcaucasia. 

 In the Tring Museum 2 c? c? from : Askhabad ; Amasia. 



