270 GONANTICLEA. By L. B. Prottt. 



horia. G. horia sp. n. (27 a). On an average considerably sraaller than subcaesia (28 to 30 mm. but 1 $ reaches 



34 mm), o antennal ciliation apparently shorter. thorax with larger white spot posteriorly, ,^ abdomen less 

 markedly elongate. Body and forewing above less variegated, the blackish-fuscous parts predominantly brown. 

 Forewing with antemedian and the Hnes between it and subbasal on the whole moie sharply angled in cell; 

 postmedian with the tooth behind 3rd radial generally simple rather than double (i. e. almost without an ae- 

 companying tooth or angulation behind Ist median). Hindwing and nnderside with the grey colour less bluish, 

 more inclining towards brown or drab. Queensland (F. P. Dodd): Kuranda, Cairns district, type S i'i m.v col- 

 lection, 8 $$ in the British Museum; Taylor Range near Brisbane, 1 ,^, 2 $0 in the British Museum. 



mihcacsia. G. subcacsia Warr. (27 a). Median band quite different in form from that of semi flava, dark shadings 



of subterminal differently placed. Antenna with ciliation about as long as diameter of shaft. British and Dutcli 



nevtralis. New Guinea, the type from Upper Aroa River. — neutralis Pmiif. Hindwing and underside with the non- 

 descript pnrple-grey hue of sublusfris or of the African meridionata, even further removed from the deep blue- 

 grey coloming of the type than is the browm-grey or drab-grey of horia: distal half of forewing with irregulär 

 ochreous suffnsion. Avhich is strongest and clearest in the outer lobe of the ])ostmedian band. Manusela. Central 

 Ceram. 1 $. 



orrhisata. G. occlusata Feld. (27 a). Moderately variable and (as also the next 5 species) with streng sex-dimor- 



phism. rj with moderate or rather narrow white or pale yellowish bar bisecting the (mostly dark) median band. 

 $ with the distal part of the band represented only by a somewhat triangulär costal spot and a fine postmedian 

 line. Hindwing with the yellow ground-colour more or less suffused with grey. Ceylon (type) and 8. India. — 

 hicüjini. laetifica Prout. Forewing with brighter tints outside the median area, in the $ with the median area itself bright 

 or light and with the postmedian lines generally very weak except at Costa. Hindwing. excepting the abdominal 

 region and a narrow or incomplete terminal shade, ochraceous orange. Underside also brighter orange than in 

 0. occlusata. N. E. Himalayas, the type from Cherrapunji. I have also referred here the forms from Malaya 

 kiiicibalciisis. and Tonkin. -- kinabalensis subsp. itov. (27 a) should be separated; grey abdominal shade of the hindwing nar- 

 rower, termen without the grey shading or maculation; I think also that tliere is somewhat more liair on the 

 hindwing proximally. Kinabalu. 



nihhonii. G. albizona Pront (27 b). "Except in the very different shape more like amplior than occlusata." Median 



ai'ea of forewing in both sexes broader than in penicilla . hindwing brighter. the ,^ without the characteristie 

 pencil of the hindwing and api^arently with normal antenna (damaged in Itoth the known 00). 9 rather large. 

 with minute cell-dot well outside the narrow antemedian band, the much clearer orange hindwing best dist- 

 inguishing it from that of 0. occlusata. Mount Korintji. S. W. Sumatra. 7300 feet. 



penicilla. G. penicilla Prout. Fore\ving closely like that of amplior, but looking slightly less broad, on account 



of the rather less square-cut tornus; hindwing quite different in shape from that of amplior, in the J with a 

 longitudinal pale-buff hair-pencil on the upperside arising in the base of the cell between the subcostal and the 

 cell-fold; without the broadly smoky abdominal-marginal area. ^ antenna somewhat remarkable. the end 

 darkened and very appreciably fusiform, recalling the South American genus Rhopalodes. 5 apparently variable, 

 the hindwing intermediate in tone between those of 0. occlusata and laetifica. but the cell-dot of the forewing 

 in all the known examples Stands outside, instead of on. the edge of tiie dark antemedian band. Korintji. at 

 aiubiia. 4500 feet (type), also (a race?) from the mountains of W. Java. — amblia Prout (27 b). from E. Java, 4000 to 

 5000 feet, is somewhat larger, hindwing and iniderside with strong dark suffusions. median band of the ,^ fore- 

 wing paler than in p. penicilla: 1 (J more recently received from E. Bali. 



nirlidiaia. G. euclidiata Sncll. (27 b. 0. U). Until recently, this apparently rare Gonanticlea., described as long ago as 



1881, was known only from the original account and figures. Now, however, speciniens have been received 

 from Paloe (W. Celebes) and these confirm the close relationship to amplior which was suggested by 

 Snellen's good figures of the $, here rejiroduced. The o begins to apjiroach, in the hindwing. the shape which 

 characterizes amplior but has not the specialized antenna. The $ difters little from that of amplior but (as also 

 the (J) lacks the large darkened apical patch of the forewing beneath which is developed in that species. Celebes, 

 the Originals from Lokka. 



amjilior. G. amplIor Th.-Mieg (27 b). Closely similar in pattern and in the sexual dimorphism to the rest of 



the occlusata group ; (^ with antenna thickened for a considerable distance. gradually tapering distally,, the ab- 

 domen tufted at its extremity, the wings very distinct in shape, forewing broader and with more curved costa. 

 hindwing with abdominal margin elongate. The very broad median band in the (^ approaches nearer to the 

 termen behind the 3rd radial than in most CrO?iaw<Jc?ea; cell-mark with noticeable pale circurascription ; $ with 

 the dark band forming a tooth outAvard behind the cell-spot. Kinabalu (type), Selangor, Sumatra, Java and 

 Bali; perhaps some races. but few speciniens are yet known excej)t from Kinabalu. 



