LEMONIID.E. NEMEOBIIN.^. DODONA. 309 



in Java ; it is also reconled from Cliina. In the Malay Peninsula it is replaced by the 

 closely-allied Z. albipnnclata, * which occurs also in Sumatra and Borneo. 



The figure shows both sides of a male specimen from SikUim in the Indian Museum, Calcutta. 



Z. ernesoides occurs also in the Malay Peninsula and Borneo, and differs entirely from 

 Z. flciivds and Z. albipiiiutata. The ground-colour is ochraceous, it has no white spots, 

 and the black markings assume the form of even black bands crossing both wings at regular 

 intervals. The description is appended. + 



Genus 91.— DODOITA, Hewitson. (Plate XXIV). 



Dodona, Hewitson, Ex. Butt., vol. ii, p. 91 (1861), 



*• Resembles Nemeobitis and MelilcEa in colouring, with the hind wing of the male protruded 

 at the anal angle ; the anteniicE distuictly clubbed." (Havitsoii, 1. c.) 



In neuration Dodona differs only from Zemeros in the lower disco-cellular nervule of the 

 hindwing joining the median nervure some little distance beyond the point where the second 

 median nervule is given ofif. Forewing, evenly triangular, the inner margin being usually equal 

 in length to the outer, the cosla very slightly arched, the obiter margin even, sometimes slightly 

 convex, sometimes almost straight, sometimes sliglitly concave. Hindwing, with the outer 

 margin usually more or less scalloped, sometimes quite even, sometimes angled at the end of 

 the tliud median nervule, the anal angle always produced into a lobe, often with a long fine 

 tail at the end of the submedian nervure. Palpi, variable, usually much longer than xn Zemeros ; 

 <intenn(E, with a distinct oval club. Sexes generally alike. 



Dodona is a small, compact, and well-marked genus, containing at present eight species, 

 all of which are included within our limits ; they occur in the Himalayas, Assam, and Sylhet, 

 with two species from Burma. One species, D. diirga, is in markings something like the 

 only European species in this subfamily, A^emeobiw: lucina, Linnseus ; all of them have the 

 ground-colour of the upperside dark brown or fuscous, all but three with orange or ochreous 

 spots or bands in both sexes; in one of these latter the female has a white bar on the 

 forewing only, all the markings of tlie male being orange, and in the remaining two species with 

 a broad white band across the disc of both wings with white spots beyond. The genus is 

 divisible into two distinct groups, in one of which the anal lobe of the hindwing bears a fine 

 tail outwardly, the other group lacks this feature. The genus is remarkable in having the 

 palpi of very different length, these are very long in Z>. durga and Z>. dipoea, shorter in 

 D. lonqicaitdata, shorter still in D. adonira and D. eugenes, shortest of all in D. ouida and 

 D. egeon. The genus is still further aberrant in including two species which alone in the 

 subfamily have the subcostal nervure of the hindwing branching befo}e the end of the cell. 

 These species are D. dipcea and D. longicandata, and not improbably this is the case also in 

 D, deodata, which I have not seen. These two species belong to distinct groups, the former 

 having no tail to the hindwing, tlie latter with a very long one. 



* Zemeros albipunctata, Butler, (^ist. Ent , vol. i, p. 236(1874); idem, id., Trans. Linn. Soc, Zoology, 

 second series, vol. i, p. 545, n. 2, pi. Ixix, fig. 10, male (1877) ; idem, id., Distant, Rhop. Malawi 

 p. 187, n. I, pi. xviii, tig. 12, female (18S3). Hibitat: Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, lioriieo. 

 Expanse: i"4 to \^^ inches. Description: "Similar in form and colours to Z. yfi-^jj/fT.?, e.vcepting that 

 it is rather darker, and that there are six decreasing well-defined white spots in the fore^ving forming an 

 inner submarginal series, and that none of the black spots on the basal area above or below are white-pupilled " 

 (Butler. 1. c in Cist. Ent.) 



There is a pair of this species from Perak in the Indian Museum, Calcutta. The female is paler than 

 the male, the forewing more rounded at the ape.x, as is also the outer margin 



t Zemeros ernesoides, Felder, Wien. Ent Monatsch., vol. iv, p. 396, n. 10 (i860) ; idem, id., Reise Novara 

 Lep., vol. ii, p. 289, n. 373, pi. xxxvi, figs. 9—11, male a.r\A/emale{i%6s)\ id., Druce, Proc. Zool. Soc Lond \ 

 1873, p. 347, n I ; id., Distant, Rhop. Malay., p. 188, n. 2, pi. xviii, figs. 3, tnale ; 4, female (1883); 

 Z. emesioiiies, Kirby, Syn. Cat. Dinrn. Lep., p. 285 (1871). Habitat : Malay Peninsula, Borneo. Expansb : 

 1310 i"7 inches. Description: " Wings broad, hindwing somewhat rounded Upperside, both wings in the 

 m.ile ferruginous, in the female dilute fulvous, underside in both sexes paler, both sides with five parallel 

 subdlfTuse fuscous bands, and a waved submargiiial black streak " 



•' From Z.y/^r^jl'rt.f, Cramer, best distinguished by the shape of the hindwing, in appearance similar to 

 Emcsis [an American genus of the subfamily Le/iionihuf]. (^Felder, 1, c. in Wien. Ent Monatsch.) 



" Male. Upperside, both whtgs reddish-ochraceous, and crossed by four broad dark fascia, the outer 

 one strongly curved and followed by a submarginal narrow waved fascia of the same colour, the cilia also 

 fuscous. Fore^vinz with a short basal oblique fascia extending partly throuaih cell. H indwino with a minute 

 and obscure basal fascia. Underside, both iviiigs as above, but paler. Body and tegs more or less con- 

 colourous with wings. AntenmE fuscous, narrowly and obscurely annulated with greyish, but more distinctly 

 so beneath than .^bove, their apices pale ochr.iceous. Female. Paler in hue thau the male, and with the 

 submarginal fascia: a little broader." {Dist.iiit, 1. c.) 



There is a single of this species from Perak in the Indian Museum, Calcutta. 



