NYMPHALIDiE. MORPHINiE. CLEROME. 315 



Habitat : India, Assam, Khasi Hills. 



Expanse: ^'o (IVcshvood) ; d", 3'4; ?, 4"o inches. 



Description : Male : Upperside uniform fulvous. Underside darker fulvous, 

 crossed by tliree fuscous lines, the first subbasal, the second beyond the middle of the wings, 

 the third submarginal, very sinuous. Between the two outer lines in \.\\q foretving' is a series of 

 six small ochreous rounded spots from the costa to the first median interspace, the penultimate 

 one the largest ; on the /linihuliig there are six similar spots, the first much the largest. Female 

 larger. Upperside, both laings a deeper fulvous, especially at the apex of the forrmng, 

 which is crossed by a broad curved lighter fulvous band, broadest at the costa, obsolete at 

 the hinder angle ; this band is outwardly somewhat distinctly defined by the darker ground- 

 colour, inwardly it is diffused. UNDERSIDE marked as in the male, but all the strigiv: and 

 the spots better defined, the latter being much larger. 



This species is perhaps only a geographical variety of the C, eumeics, Drury, from 

 China. It is larger, and has " the broad, oblique, fulvous fascia of the forewing [on the 

 upperside of the female] but ill-defined, and gradually shaded off to the darker ground-colour 

 of the wing. The three strigre of the underside are distinct, the outer one more angulated ; 

 the white spots are of unequal size ; the fifth in the forewing, and the first in the hindwing, 

 being the largest." {lVest-cVood,\. c.) These remarks evidently refer to the female, which is 

 the sex of C. «<w«« figured by Drury. The MALE apparently has not previously been described, 

 unless the following remarks of Westwood (I.e.) refer to a male specimen : in no case does he 

 state the sex of the specimens of this species described by him : "A specimen from Northern 

 India, measuring 3*5 inches in expanse, has the wings on the upperside of an uniform fulvous 

 brown colour, whilst on the underside they are similar to the above described individuals 

 from Northern India." 



The Indian Museum, Calcutta, has a male from the Khasi hills taken by Colonel 

 Godwin-Austen, and another without history, but probably taken at the same time ; and 

 two females from the same locality, one of which is figured above, and shows the upper 

 and undersides. 



Another species, formerly included in the genus Clerovie, occurs in the Malay Peninsula. 

 It is a very remarkable butterfly, the wings are semi-transparent, upperside pale fuscous, 

 hindwing with the abdominal half below the cell bright yellow, and the underside with two 

 conspicuous lunulate discal fuscous strigse, and other fuscous markings at the base of the 

 ■wings. It has been placed under a separate subgeneric title, Melanocyma,* and forms the 

 type and only species of the subgenus. 



• Subgenus Mblanocvma, Westwood. 



Melanocytna, Westwood, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lend., new series, vol. iv., p. 186 (1856). 



"In the 'Genera of iJiurnal Lepidoptera' I arranged tfiis singular insect in the genus Thaumantis, 

 The arrangement of the branches of the nervures of the forewing is, however, unlike that of any of the species 

 of that genus, agreeing in the circumstance of the second branch of the subcostal nervure of the forewing 

 arising far beyond the extremity of the discoidal cell, as well as in the shortness of the wings, with Clcroine, 

 in which latter respect also it differs from Drjisilla. The fact, however, of its being entirely destitute of ocelli is 

 perhaps of sufficient importance to warrant its subgeneric separation, in which case it may receive the name of 

 Alcianocyma. The second branch of the subcostal nervure of the forewing arises at about three-fourths 

 of the length of the wing from the base opposite to the junction of the costal nervure with the costa, and the 

 fourth branch opposite to the junction of the extremity of the first branch with the costa. The lower disco- 

 cellular nervule closing the discoidal cell is singularly angulated, and the costal nervure of the hindwing also 

 extends to the middle of the costal margin. Another peculiarity of the species consists of the slight clothing 

 of the wings, which enables the bUck undulated markings of the underside to be partially seen from above. 

 The specimen which I have examined is a female." (Westwood, 1. c.) 



Melanocyma faunula, ll-'estwood. 



Thaumantis faunula, Westwood, Gen. D. L., vol. ii, pi. liv, fig. i (1851), female; Clerovte faunula, idem, 

 id., p. 334, note ; Clero»ie { Melanocyma) fautucla, Westwood, Trans. Ent. iioc. Lond., new series, vol. iv, p 186, 

 pi. xxi, fig. 2 (1856), yefwa/f ; Cleroinc/auniila, Distant, Khop. Malay., p. 81, pi. viii, fig 2 (i?>?,2), /emale. 

 Habitat: Malacca, Mount Ophir, Singapore, Cambodia. Expanse: /•'c»ia/e, j,'g inches. Description: 

 "Female: XIvversiov., both win^s, pale fuscous. ///«(/7('/«^ with the abdominal half beneath the cell, and 

 to about the second median nervule bright shining yellow. Forewing with the upper disco-cellular nervule 

 very darkly infuscated, and with the following dark markings : a transverse streak across the cell near the 

 apex, preceded by a rounded spot, beneath which are two other spots situated between the base of the first 

 median nervule and the submedian nervure ; two discal, transverse, strongly waved and sinuated fascia;, the 

 first crossing the wing a little beyond the apex of the cell, and the second being somewhat submarginal ; and 

 a very faiut, waved, narrow, marginal fastia, whigh is obsolete towards the ape.t, Hindwing with the follow- 



