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line, and a distinct fine and sinuous subterminal line ; the inner edge 

 of terminal border is not rayed. 



Expanse, 22 millim. 



Collection number, 893. 



The male described was taken at Kanshirei May Slst, 1908, 

 and is in my collection ; the female type, which is also from 

 Kanshirei (Wileman), is in the British Museum. 



Ptychopoda rantaizanensis, sp. n. 



(? . Antennffi bipectinated ; head bone- white, collar brown ; 

 thorax and base of abdomen bone-white, rest of abdomen brownish 

 (perhaps discoloured). Fore wings bone-white, costa ochreous-brown 

 finely sprinkled with dark brown ; antemedial line pale brown, 

 indented before dorsum, commencing in a brown spot on the costa ; 

 discoidal dot black ; postmedial line brown, outwardly oblique at 

 costa, where it originates in a brown spot, inwardly oblique from 

 vein 2 to dorsum, obsolescent between veins 2 and 6 ; subterminal 

 line pale brown, dotted with black, irregular, only distinct below the 

 costa and before dorsum. Hind wings bone-white, discoidal dot 

 black ; antemedial line brown, indistinct ; terminal line of all wings 

 black, fringes brown. Under side bone-white, rather glossy, mark- 

 ings of upper side only faintly in evidence. 



Expanse, 28 millim. 



Collection number, 1808. 



A male specimen from Eantaizan, May 14th, 1909. 



Very near P.ferrilineata, Moore. 



NOTES ON THE SUCCESSFUL BEEEDING OF 

 PA PILIO MA CHA ON. 



By B. Pritchard. 



As I have been fortunate enough for the past three successive 

 years to breed a very fine series of this lordly insect, in a locality 

 far from its native haunts, perhaps a few notes as to my methods 

 would not come amiss at this slack time of the year ; at least to 

 the younger brigade of entomologists, which we all hope is 

 increasing in strength. 



The first year, from paired imagines, I was successful in 

 rearing about seventy larvae from the egg, the year following 

 about thirty only, but as the third attempt (last year) yielded 

 about one hundred and ninety, I will select it for the one 

 describing my modus operandi. 



First, the breeding cage is built against a wall facing nearly 

 due south, and is six feet long, four feet broad, and about seven 

 feet high to the apex of roof, the whole being raised from the 

 ground about three feet nine inches, that being a convenient 

 height for purposes of attention, observation, &c. 



