( r^HR ) 



or tnincatc. Clnspcr witlmut tVictioii-scalcs. Peiiis-shoalli iMidiiig in a, dentate 

 process. 



?. Va.u'iiial jilatc triangular ilistally, tlie distal cilgcs somewhat iia'rassatc and 

 more or less elevate ; uritice free. 



Larva tajiering in front, with a dorso-latcral line, and bcdow tliis ohlinne hands; 

 horn figured by l^ntler as being very long and filit'orni, by Semper and by Moore 

 as being rather stont and sliorter than two segments : are, perhaps, Rntlcr's figures 

 re])resentations of mas/iricnsis instead of ////as ? 



/In/i. North Western India (known as far south as Mhow) to Japan, the 

 riiilippines and Java. 

 Two species. 



Kirby proposed, without giving a definition, tlie name (i/tn'/ra in iMSo to 

 replace the likewise nondescript name " Lnpliuid, Herr Schilff'. nom. preocc.," and 

 enumerated under it three African and one Indian species. Herrich-SchiiiFer 

 mentioned the name Lojihura — corrupted from Boisduval's nondescri[)t name 

 Lopluiron — only in connection with his Lophura zanfun from East Africa. The 

 type of the nondescript name of 1880 is, therefore, .-a/if/tx for all those who, liki' 

 Mr. Kirby, accept nondescript names as valid, and not /t>/n.'<, as given by Kirby in 

 his Catalogue. 



For us nondescript names have no standing ; Ginr/m of 188U is not valid, 

 while Gurdrii of 1892 being said to replace Lophura as defined by Boisduval 

 in 1875 (type : hyas) is the first not preoccupied defined term for the present Indian 

 genus, and, tlicrefore, tlie correct name. 



524. Gurelca hyas. 



*L(qihur<i h>i(i>i Walker, L,^l Lep. /».<. B. M. fiii. p. 107. n. ?> (ISaC)) (Silhet; Hongkong : .Java: 



N. India ;— Mas. Brit.); Moore, in Horsf. & Moore, Cut. Lep. Li.i. .^fll■1. E. I. C. i. p. "203. n. 607. 



t. 8. f. 4. 4a (/., p.) (18,';7) (.Tava) ; id., I'ror. Zoo!. Sor. Lend. p. 704 (186.5) (Bengal) ; Boisd.. 



Spec. Gill. Up. Hit. i. p. 310. n. 1 (1875) (Silhet; Java : Philippines); But).. T,;im. Zout. 



Sor. Loml. ix. p. 538. n. 8. t. HO. f 1. ■>. 3 (/. /).) (1877) (Hongkong ; Silhet ; Java) ; Swinh., 



Pror. Z<u,l. Siir. Lmid. p. 434. n. 4 (1886) (Mhow, xi.) ; Cot. cV: Swinh., Cut. Lrji. .^roth>: Iml i. 



p. 7. n. 40 (1887) (Sikhim ; Mhow); Pagenst.. Jahrl,. .V".«. Vcr. X„t. xliii. p. 101. n. 171 



(18110) (E. Java. xi.). 

 MdcroqlDnsiiin qcfimitrimiii Moore, in Horsf. & Moore, Cif. Lr/i. fiis. Miis. E. I. ('. i. p. 2l"ir). n. 607 



(1857). 

 *Pfrigonia nKd't-of/liisKtilrlex Walker, List Lep. Lis. B. M. xxxv. p. 1851 (1866) (Darjiling ;— coll. 



Atkinson, now in coll. Staudinger) ; Moore, Proe. Znal. Snr. Loml. p. 676 (1867). 

 Pcryesa ? maenKjhis.Koiihx., Butler, Traiit. ZonL Snr. Loud. ix. p. 548. n. '.I (1^77) : Cot. >s;- Swinh.. 



' Cat. Moths )nd. i. p. 10. n. 56 (1887). 

 Gurelcn hjus, Kirby, /';•.-■. Ron. Dnl,i;i, Snr. {■!). ii. p. 330 (1880) ; Swinh., Cut. Lep. Ilrl. Miis. O.r- 



i. p. 8. n. .33 (1892) (Silhet ; Assam ; Java) ; Kirby, Cat. Lep. /Let. i. p. 643. n. 1 (1892) ; 



Hamps., in Blanf., Finiiia Brit. Lid., .Moths i. p. 110. n. 173 (1892) (Hongkong; Sikhim; 



Silhet : Mhow : Java) : Huwe, Ber!. Eiit. Zeitsch: xl. p. 359. n. 12 (1805) (Java) ; Semp., 



Sridii. Phdipp. ii. p. 405. n. 54. t. j. f. 1. 2 (/., p.) (1806) (Luzon ; Camiguin de ]Miudanao ; 



Palawan ; vii.— ix.) ; Leech, Trana. Eiit. Soc. L.oiid. p. 291. n. 73 (1808) (partini) ; Dudg., 



Joiirti. Bnnitmn y. TI. Sor. xi. p. 417. n. 173 (1898) (Sikhim and Bhutan, up to 5(ill0ft , v.— vii., 



xi. xii.). 

 Metopsllii.-< I?) marrofihssoidrx, Kirby, Cat. Lep. llet. i. p. 661. n. 22 (1892). 

 Gurelca maeroglossoides, Hampson, in Blanf., F((iiiia Brit, hid., .Moths i. p. 110. n. 175 (1892); 



Dudg., .loiirn. Bnmhai/ .V. IT. Soc. xi. p. 417. n. 175 (1808) (" not seen ''). 



c? ? . Border of hindwiug of even width. 



S. Tenth tergite carinate above in middle : stcrnite tr.apeziform, truncate, 

 feebly impressed mesially on underside, edges only stronger chitinised. Harpe 



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