3i6 LEMONIID.'E. NEMEOBIIN/E. TAXILA. 



This diagnosis is evidently drawn up from a female specimen, tiiougli the sex is not stated. 

 In the male the inner and outer margins of the forewing are exactly equal in length, the 

 latter is nearly straight, not strongly convex as in the female, and the apex very acute not 

 rounded. It has no secondary sexual characters. The hindwing is much less broad than in 

 the female. 



Slibooes is a very remarkable genus, the ground-colour being semi-transparent snow-white, 

 with a broad outer fuscous border spotted with white. It contains but a single species, which 

 occurs in BiuUan, on our North-Eastern frontier, and at Penang. 



605. StiTaOgreS nympllidia, Butler. (Plate XXIV, Fig. 119$). 



.?. nymphidia, Butler, Proc. Zool. Koc. Loud., 1876, p. 309, n. i, pi. xxii, fig. i, female; id.. Distant, Rhop, 

 Malay., p. 193, n. i, pi. xxiv, fig. w, female (1883). 



Habitat : Penang, Naga and Khasi Hills, Bhutan. 



Expanse : 17 to i -9 inches. 



Description : Male and female. " Both wings serai-transparent, snow-white. Fore- 

 wing witli broad costal and external dark brown borders, sinuated internally ; two irregular 

 submarginal series of unequal white spots. Hindzving with a broad [dark brown] outer border, 

 undulated internally ; a sinuated disco-submarginal lunulated pale brown line ; a submarginal 

 series of elongated white spots. .S^;/)/ dark brown. Underside as above. [C///« long, white, 

 very broadly on the forewing, less so on the hindwing, marked with dark brown at the ends of 

 the veins]. Le^s, palpi, and venter white." {Butler, 1. c.) 



The Indian Museum, Calcutta, possesses a worn male specimen from the Khasi Hills, and a 

 female example from the Naga Hills ; from the latter the figure is taken, and shows both sides, 

 Mr. A. V. Knyvett's native collectors obtained a single female example on June lOth beyond 

 Buxa in Bhutan. It was originally described from Penang, and is evidently a very rare species. 



Genus 93.— TAXILA, Westwood. 



Taxila, Westwood, Gen. Diurn. Lep., vol. ii, p. 421 (1851) ; id., Hewitson, Ex. Butt., vol. ii, p. 91 (1861). 

 " Body, robust ; ivings, large ; head, broad, front with a broad transversely truncated tuft, 

 extending over the base of the antennae ; eyes, smooth, naked ; antenna, moderately long 

 and slender, with short joints, the base of each slightly annulated with white, terminated 

 by a long, slender club, ending in a fine point directed outwards ; palpi, short, not, or scarcely, 

 visible in front of the face when seen from above, finely scaly, basal joint much curved; finely 

 hairy beneath, terminal joint very small. Thorax, robust, finely hairy at the sides and beneath. 

 Abdomen, rather short. Forewing, subtriangular, or subtriangularly ovate ; costal margin 

 slightly convex ; apex rounded, or subacute. Veins nearly arranged as in Zemeros ; the first and 

 second subcostal tiervules arising before the anterior extremity of the discoidal cell, and the third 

 find fourth at considerable distances beyond it ; tipper disco-cellular nervule obliterated, middle 

 disco-cellular and the iipper discoidal nervules arising together at a little distance beyond the 

 second subcostal nervule ; the middle and lozaer disco-cellular nervules forming a nearly continu- 

 ous curve, the latter uniting with the third median nervule at a very short distance beyond its 

 origin, Hindwing, with the outer margin entire, rounded, and very slightly scalloped ; the 

 costal nervure scarcely extending beyond the middle of the costal margin ; the first subcostal 

 nervule arising considerably beyond the upper disco-cellular nervule ; lower disco-cellular nervule 

 uniting with the third median nervule at a short distance from its origin. Forelegs, of 

 the 7nale short, slender, and very densely clothed with soft hairs, forming a thick brush. 

 Of the female twice as long, slender, scaly ; tarsus well articulated, terminal joint small, 

 oval, armed beneath with a series of very minute spines, and at the tip with two, 

 regularly formed, much curved clazos, acute at the tip, not above one-fourth of the length 

 of the joint ; pulvillus large and leathery. Middle and hindlegs, moderately long, 

 slender, and scaly ; femur hairy beneath, of the middle pair of legs elongated ; tibial 

 spurs very minute, or obsolete ; claios small, very strongly curved, broad at the base, with 

 a deep notch at the base of the apical acute portion ; paronychia very slender, obliquely 



