284 NYMPHALID.E. 



MORPHIN.E. 



XANTHOT.ENIA. 



Xanthoticnia in reality bears only a superficial resemblance to Clerome ; the following are 

 its chief distinctive characters : Forewing, subcostal nervure with all its branches free, the 

 second originating not far beyond the end of the cell ; middle disco-ccUular ncrvule compara- 

 tively long and oblique ; lower disco-cellular about twice as long as the middle one, and nearly 

 straight, oblique. Hindwing with the cell closed by a very slender concave neivule joining 

 the median nervure near the origin of its second branch ; the origin of the subcostal branches 

 and of the discoidal nervule well separated, and some distance from the base of the wing ; 

 the latter arising at the junction of the disco-cellulars. The secondary sexual characters of the 

 MALE consist of a raised fold along the inner edge of the submedian nervure, scantily fringed 

 with long hairs, and terminating rather beyond the middle in a denser tuft of erect hairs. No 

 tufts near the base of the median or subcostal nervures, nor on the abdomen of the insect. 



Mr. W. L. Distant (Rhop. Malay., p. 82), states that the cell of the hindwing has the 

 apex entirely open, but according to Westwood's, original diagnosis it is closed, and this is 

 also the case in all the specimens from Tenasserim which we have examined. Only a single 

 species is known. 



272. Xanthotsenia busiris, Wcstwood, 



Chrome (Xantliol'rnia) bushis, Westwood, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., new series, vol. iv, p. 187, n. 6 (1856) ; 

 Xantltottenia biisirts, Moore, Proc Zool. Soc. Lond , 1878, p. 827 ; id.. Distant, Rhop. Malay., p. 82, pi. v, fig. 7 

 (1882). 



Habitat : Upper Tenasserim, Malacca, Sumatra, Java, Borneo. 



Expanse ; (?, 26 to 2-85 inches. 



Description : " Upperside chestnut-fuscous. Fore'ving with the apical half fuscous, a 

 straight oblique yellow fascia, and a white subapical dot. Underside paler. Hindwing with 

 four very wavy fuscous streaks, and eight ocelli irregular in size. The general colour of the 

 upperside is rich but dull chestnut-brown ; the hindzoin^ immaculate ; the forewing with the 

 outer half dark brown, with a moderately broad, nearly straight yellow fascia, extending from 

 the middle of the costa nearly to the cuter margin (below the middle), and with a subapical 

 while dot. Underside pale brown (without any chestnut tinge), the hindiving with four 

 deeply scalloped, .<;lender brown strigce ; the space between the second and third being the 

 widest, enclosing eight ocelli of unequal size, the second and sixth from the costa being the 

 largest ; they are thickly powdered with grey scales, and are surrounded by a very narrow 

 yellow ring ; the space between the third and fourth strigaj is paler than the rest of the wing, 

 and between the first and second strigce is a short transverse dark line, being the nervule 

 closing the discoidal cell. In Wicfoieioinr/ the discoidal cell is marked in the middle with a 



