﻿NYMPHALIN^. (Group LUTMALII.fA.) 67 



Sumatra (J. A. Soc. Bengal, 1895, 420). Mr. W. B. Fryer obtained it at " Sanda- 

 kan, N. Borneo ; captured at rest on a tree trunk " (Ann. N. H. 1887, 52). It 

 also occurs in S.E. Borneo. Dr. Staudinger records it from the Island of Palawan 

 (Iris, D. Ent. Zeit. 1889, 73). 



Indo-Malatan Allied Species. — Rangasa Saidja (Eutb. Saidja, Van de Poll, 

 Tijd. voor Ent. 1895, p. 6. Habitat. Nius. 



Genus ADOLIAS. 



Adolias, Boisduval, Spec. Gen. Lep. i. pi. 3 et 8 (1836). 



Symphcedra (part), Doubleday and Westwood, Gen. D. Lep. p. 294 (1850). Butler, P. Z.S. 1868, 

 p. 612. Distant, Rhop. Malay, p. 112 (1883). de Niceville, Butt, of India, etc., ii. p. 185 (1886). 

 Lexias * (sect. 2), Feider, !Xeiies Lep. p. 36 (1861). 



Imago. — Male. Foreiving subtriangular ; costa well arched, apex obtuse, 

 exterior margin almost even ; cell long, upper end extending to nearly half-length 

 of the wing ; upper discocellulars short, upper bent close to the subcostal, middle 

 concave, lower discocollular slender, outwardly-oblique and slightly waved ; cell 

 closed ; first subcostal f branch anastomosed to the costal (in both sexes), emitted 

 at nearly two-thirds before end of the cell, second subcostal at nearly one-third 

 before the end ; middle median veinlet emitted at some distance before lower end 

 of the cell. Hindwing broadly conical ; anterior margin long, convex, apex obtusely 

 pointed, exterior margin very oblique and slightly convex, anal angle obtusely 

 pointed ; cell quite open ; base of the cell and along both sides of the submedian 

 vein densely clothed with long hairs. Body extremely robust, clothed with short 

 woolly hairs ; palpi stout, compactly hairy above and beneath, apex obtusely 

 pointed ; antennae extremely long, more than two-thirds the length of the wing, 

 rather thick, and with a lengthened pointed club. Eyes naked. Sexes dissimilar. 



Type. — A. Dirtea. 



Historical Note on the Genus Adolias. — Boisduval, in " Spec. Gen. Lep." 

 (published April, 1836), gave this name to two species, which he also figured, 

 namely, Aconthea (pi. 3, fig. 11), and Dirtea (Boisduvalii) (pi. 8, fig. 2), and, in 

 Crochard's Edit, of " Cuvier's Reg. Anim." Ins. ii. (published, Paris 1836), he also 

 applies it to, and figures, Nesimachus (pi. 139, bis fig. 1) and AJpheda (pi. 139, bis 

 fig. 1, a). As both Aconthea and Alpheda are strictly congeneric with Luhentina — 

 the type of Hiibuer's genus Eulhalia (1816) — Aconthea cannot be taken as the type, 



* Boisduval's type of Lexias is ASropus, which is quite distinct from the present genus. 



t Of the specimens examined, the first subcostal branch was anastomosed to the costal vein in six 

 male Dirtea and in two JUiosiana, whereas it was free in two male Dirtea, in two Ahasiaiia, and in four 

 Cyanipardus, 



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