)not}is allied to Himantopterus. 333 



Synopsis of the Species allied to Himantopterus. 



Himantopterus fuscinervis, Wesmael, Bull. Acad. Brux., 



iii., p. 162, t. vi., 1, 2 (1836). 

 Java. 



This specimen remains unique in the Brussels Museum, 

 no other existing, as far as I can learn, in any Dutch or 

 other collection. It resembles Dohertyi ? very closely 

 in form, but differs considerably in colour. 



Thymara zaicla. (PI. X., figs. 8 and 10, <? ). 



Thymara zaicla, Doubl., Zoologist, i., p. 197, 3' (1843) ; 

 said to come from North India (bought of Mr. 

 Lewis James in 184:d,Jide Brit. Mus. Eegister). 



Of this curious species two males only are known 

 to exist, the types in the British Museum, and if 

 they really were taken in India I imagine that some 

 remote part of Assam must be the habitat, as none of 

 the very numerous collections received since 1843 have 

 contained it. My figure was made, with Mr. Butler's 

 permission, from one of the type-specimens. 



Thymara caudata. (PL X., figs. 9 and 11, S')- 



Thymara caudata, Moore, P. Z. S., 1879, p. 394, t. xxxii., 

 3, 3. (PL X., figs. 9 and 11). 



Mr. Moore's type, which, though described as a male, 

 is, judging by the antennae (as figured), a female, came 

 from Burmah, but he states that he has also seen a speci- 

 men in Mr. Farr's collection, taken by him at Pankabari. 

 This is a rest-house at the foot of the Himalaya, on the old 

 road to Darjeeling, and if the insect really occurs in this 

 locality it is most extraordinary that neither Otto Moller, 

 who resided in the immediate neighbourhood for some 

 years, or any of the numerous native collectors in 

 Sikkim, have ever found it. It differs in the neuration of 

 the hind wing from Dohertyi, see fig. 11, which is drawn 

 from a specimen in the British Museum, taken by Mr. 

 Hampson in the Nilgiri Hills. This gentleman informs 

 me that he has taken the insect not uncommonly in 

 the Nilgiris at about 3000 ft. He has never seen it on 

 the wing, but on two occasions has found it settled on a 



