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in the males the outer border of the forewing on the upperside is somewhat wide at the apex 

 enclosing four fulvous lunules, but rapidly narrowing towards the inner angle, the discal line 

 on both wings is very obsolete, as are the three marginal lines on the hindwing. On the 

 underside the tone of the ground-colour is very even and regular, all the markings are very 

 obscure, except in one Travancore specimen in which the discal band (which has its inner 

 edge always highly irregular and dentate) is white and somewhat prominent. The female 

 is even paler on the upperside than the male, the markings somewhat more prominent, the 

 discal band on the underside wider and usually more prominent, in one Ceylon example it 

 is outwardly bounded by a broad diffused deep purple band which on the forewing occupies 

 the whole of the upper half of the wing between the discal band and the margin. Mr. Moore 

 does not record C. swinhoei from Ceylon, but the three female specimens I possess from that 

 island must, I think, be placed under that specific name. 



416- Oirrliocliroa fasciata, Feider. 



Atella/asciata, Feider, Wien. Ent. Monatsch., vol. iv, p. 236, n. 83 (i86o); Cirrochroa fasciata. idem, 

 id., vol. V, p. 301, n. 14 (1861) ; idem, id., Reise Novara. Lep., vol. iii, p. 389, n. 567, pi. xlixi figs. 9, 10 (1867). 



Habitat : Mergui, Upper Tenasserim, Sumatra, Mindoro. 



Expanse : i'8 to2'2 inches. 



Description : •• Wings widely-dentate. Upperside brownish-fuscous, with a narrow 

 common discal fascia extending from the first median nervule of the forewing to the anal 

 angle of the hindwing, lutescent [yellowish]. Forewing with a subcostal spot, a submacular 

 external fascia, and six posterior lunules, lutescent [yellowish]. Hindwing subangulate, 

 with a posterior fascia inwardly marked with six black spots and six elongate submarginal 

 lutescent lunules, separated by a streak, with an obsolete marginal concolourous line Under- 

 side pale yellowish-brown, with the fasciae of the upperside much paler. I-oreivijig with a 

 black spot near the inner angle." (Feider 1. c. in Wien. Ent. Monatsch., vol. iv.) 



This is a very distinct species, possessing alone in the genus the curious secondary male 

 characters given at page 108. The female differs from the male only in not having these male 

 marks. The colouration of the upperside is blackish, thickly irrorated with ochreous scales. 

 There is a common discal band broken between the third median and lower discoidal nervules of 

 the forewing, °vond which is a maculated band inwardly marked with six round black spots 

 on the hindwing, -n^ black spot at the inner angle of the forewing, a submarginal series of 

 lunules between the veins and an indistinct marginal line all pale clear ochreous. The underside 

 is much paler throughout, but is similarly marked, the foreiving has the round black spot near the 

 outer angle, with sometimes a smaller one above it in the first median interspace very prominent. 



Dr. Anderson took two males and a female in the Mergui archipelago during the winter 

 months ; there are specimens in Major Marshall's collection taken by Captain C. T. Bingham in 

 April in the Upper Thoungyeen forests, the Donat range and at Muawaddy, Kankaret, all in 

 Upper Tena.sserim. 



GentlS 64.-PSETTDEE&0L1S, Feider, (Plate XXIII). 



Psciidergolis, Feider, Reise Novara, Lep., vol. iii, p. 404 (1867). 



^' AntenitcB, rather long, beneath scarcely annulated, terminating gradually in a rather 

 narrow club. Palpi, as in section hedonia of Precis, but a little shorter and stouter, IVings, 

 with the di.scoidal cells slenderly closed. Forewing, vi'iih. \.\\q dxscsX "geniculum"* greater 

 than in P. hedonia and its allies, with the second subcostal nervule a little more distant from 

 the end of the cell, the third given off in the middle of the wing, Hindwing, with the 

 discoidal nervule more distant from the lower subcostal nervule than in Precis. General 

 appearance scarcely different from Ergolis." {Feider, 1. c.) Only two species are known. 



The type of the genus is P. avesta from Celebes, a species very closely allied to but larger 

 than the Indian P. ivedah. Structurally Pseudergolis is very nearly allied to Precis, but may be 

 at once distinguished from it by the discoidal cells of both wings being slenderly but distinctly 

 closed ; on the other hand in colouration and general style of markings it more nearly resembles 

 Ergolis, being a ferruginous insect on the upperside with several dark sinuous transverse lines ; 



* Probably the bend in the lower disco-cellular nervule is meant 



