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Exot. pi. 69, fig. 1, ? (1835). Moore, Tr. Ent. Soc. 1859, p. 73. Fruhst. Berl. Ent. 

 Zeit. 1894, p. 245, pi. 18, fig. 7, ?. Habitat. Java. — Gynitla Bottgerl (Felderia 

 Bottgeri, Fruhst. Berl. Ent. Zeit. 1894, p. 244, pi. 18, figs. 5,6, c? ?. Habitat. 

 ^Yest Java. — Gynitia Tanagra (Felderia Tanagra, Staudinger, Iris, 1889, p. 76. 

 Habitat. Palawan. 



Genus KIRONTISA. 



Imago. — Male. Wings short, broad. Foreiving subtriangular ; costa well 

 arched, apex slightly produced and obtuse, exterior margin slightly concave in 

 the middle, even, posterior margin almost straight ; costal vein free in both 

 sexes ; first subcostal branch emitted at one-half before end of cell, second at one- 

 fifth; cell open. Hiudwing bi'oadly conical; anterior margin well arched, exterior 

 margin convex, even, anal angle pointed; second subcostal branch and radial emitted 

 at equal distance from the costal ; cell open ; precostal excurved. Body very 

 robust ; palpi not reaching to vertex, apex short, stout, conical. Eyes naked. 

 Antennal club short, slender. Sexes dissimilar. 



Type. — K. Telchinia. 



KIRONTISA TELCHINIA (Plate 227, figs. 1, la, b, c, <^ ? ). 



AJolias Telchiina, Meiu'tries, Catal. Mus. Petr. Lep. ii. p. 120, pi. 9, fig. 5, (J (1857). Moore, Tr. 



Ent. Soc. 1859, p. 77. Butler, P. Z. S. 1868, p. 608. 

 Euthalia Telchinia, de Niceville, Butt, of India, etc., ii. p. 206 (1886). 

 Adolias Aphidas, Hewitson, Exot. Butt. iii. Ad. pi. 2, figs. 8, 9 (1862), J . 



Imago. — Male. Upperside dark purpurescent umber-brown. Cilia white. Both 

 wings with a marginal blue band having a more or less senescent lustre, which 

 commences narrowly on the lower half of the forewing and widens on the hindwing 

 to the anal angle. Forewing also with obscurely-defined black-lined cell and basal 

 marks, their interspaces being paler brown ; a triangular pale brown costal space 

 also before the apex. Hindioing also with obscurely-defined black-lined cell marks 

 with paler brown interspaces. Underside paler umber-brown ; basal black-lined 

 marks not prominent ; both wings crossed by a discal and a submarginal sinuous 

 diffused blackish fascia. Body, palpi, and antennse above dark brown, beneath 

 pale brown. 



Female. Upperside pale umber-brown ; cell and basal marks obscurely defined ; 

 crossed by a continuous oblique discal darker brown fascia, which commences at 

 the apex of forewing and widens posteriorly to the middle of the abdominal margin ; 

 hindwing also with a narrow dark brown submarginal lunular fascia. Forewing 



