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dofined ; a small white patch above the discocellular triangular spot. Rindwing also 

 with a narrow white subbasal band, two very slightly-defined medial- discal lilacine- 

 white sinuous lines, and the marginal line very distinct. Body and palpi above black, 

 a bluish-white band on thorax and abdomen ; palpi beneath whitish and streaked 

 with black ; body and legs beneath greyish-white ; middle and hind femora above 

 brown. 



Expanse, c? 3 to Sj^oj? ^io inches. 



Habitat. — Upper Tenasserim ; Malay Peninsula ; Sumatra ; Borneo. 



Distribution. — A male, taken by Colonel C. T. Bingham in the Ye Valley, 

 Upper Tenassei'im, in February, 1893, is in the British Museum Collection. Signor 

 Leonardo Fea obtained it at Meteleo, Upper Tenasserim, in August. Capt. 

 Pinwill took it at Malacca. Mr. L. de Niceville records it as " decidedly rare in 

 N.E. Sumatra, and always found only singly, on fa3ces and moist spots on forest 

 roads" (J. A. S. Bengal, 1895, 417). It also occurs at Sarawak, Borneo. 



Malayan Species. — Tacola Magindana (Athyma Magindana, Semper, Eeisen 

 Phil. Lep. p. 140, pi. 27, fig. 10, 6; id. pi. 28, fig. 1, 2, c? ? (1889). Eabitat. 

 Philippine Islands. — Tacola Eidimene (Nymph. Eulimene, Godart, Encyc. Meth. ix. 

 p. 429 (1823). Sijn. Athyma Jocaste, Felder, Wien. Eut. Mqnats. 1859, p. 182 ; id. 

 Reise Novara, Lep. pi. 56, fig. 1-3, c? $ . Athyma Badoura, Butler, Ann. Nat. Hist. 

 1866, p. 100. Habitat. Amboina; Celebes. 



Genus PANTOPORIA. 



Pantoporia, Hiibner, Verz. Schmett. p. 44 (1816). Moore, Lep. of Ceylon, i. p. 56 (1881). 



Athyma (sect. 2, pa:t), Felder, Neues Lep. p. .32 (1861). de Niceville, Butt, of India, ii. p. 171 



(1886). 

 Athyma (part), Westwood. 



Imago. — Male. Forewing subtriangular ; costa arched, apex obtuse, exterior 

 margin oblique, slightly concave in the middle, and slightly scalloped ; first sub- 

 costal branch emitted at two-fifths before end of the cell, second at one-seventh 

 before the end ; upper discocellular short, middle discocellular outwardly-oblique, 

 concave anteriorly, lower discocellular concave, slender, but distinct ; middle median 

 emitted considerably before lower end of the cell. Androconia, or scent-scales, in a 

 very limited number, are present, chiefly upon the basal area of the upperside, between 

 the median and submedian vein ; these scales are very minute, elongated, broadest 

 and rounded anteriorly, and finely ciliated in front, the base being angled hindward on 

 each side into a fine pointed hook longer than the basal shaft. Hindxoing short, 

 triangular ; costa slightly convex, apex obtuse, exterior margin very oblique, convex, 

 scalloped, anal angle obtusely pointed ; precostal vein long, incurved ; cell area 

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