THE ENTOMOLOGIST 



Vol. XXVII.] APEIL, 1894. [No. 871 



THE GENEEA OF LIMNAINE EHOPALOCERA ALLIED TO 

 GADUGA, AND DESCRIPTION OF A NEW SPECIES. 



By J. Jenner Weir, F.L.S, F.E.S., &c. 



The genus Caduga, Moore, with the three genera Mangalisa, 

 Moore (type albata, Link. Som.), Budacara, Moore (type, nil- 

 giriensis, Moore), Chittara, Moore (type fumata, Butler), form a 

 very natural group, differing mainly from the allied genus 

 Parantica, Moore, by their more robust structure and greater 

 substance of the wing ; in the latter genus the wings have a 

 much more flimsy character, and all the species a far more 

 slender appearance. 



The genus Caduga itself may be divided into two sections : 

 the first has the characteristic white markings broad and hyaline, 

 being but little interrupted by basal lines, excepting some- 

 what in C. pseudomelancus ; this section consists of C. ti/tia, Gray, 

 and the closely allied topomorphic races, C. niplwnica, Moore, and 

 C. loochooana, Moore, C. tytioides, De Nic, C. melaneus, Cramer, 

 and its topomorphic race C. swinhoci, Moore, and the rare but 

 perfectly distinct C. pseudomelaneus ; the other section is charac- 

 terised by having all the white markings much reduced in 

 breadth, scarcely liyaline, with the white in the discoidal cells of 

 both wings and the lower basal markings of the fore wings much 

 broken up by lines proceeding from the base, and dividing each 

 marking into two or more : this section consists of C. larissa, 

 Felder, of Java ; C. hqnksii, Moore, of Malacca and Sumatra ; 

 C. luzonensis, Felder, of the Philippines ; C. funeralis, Butler, 

 which I place here with doubt, from Nias ; and, lastly, C. crowleyi, 

 from Kina Balu, North Borneo, the subject of this paper. 



Caduga crowleyi, n. s. 



This fine species, as will be seen by the figure, is nearly allied 

 to C. larissa and C. hanksii ; it differs from either of those in 



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