602 Pieter C. T. Snellen on a 



F. patruelis, Moore, Desc. Indian Lep., p. 218; S. &C., 



No. 4224. 

 Var. Auxomitia mirificalis, Lederer, Wien. Ent. Mon., 



vii., p. 391, pi. 13, f. 1. 



Geyer's figure of this species does not agree with 

 the text. The thorax, the base of fore- wings, and the 

 abdomen are, in fresh typical species, indeed fulvous 

 ("hoch goldgelb," as the description intimates), not pale 

 greenish ochreous yellow. I also must observe that in 

 al] my specimens the base of hind wings is concolorous 

 with the rest, dark grey, not yellow. Lederer's figure, 

 too, is insufficient, and though he says that in his speci- 

 men the abdomen was wanting, he figures it with a 

 fancy-male one. Then I must point to a serious mistake 

 of this otherwise so very sharp-sighted and conscientious 

 author. Evidently not being acquainted with the male 

 oifulvidor sails, he was unaware of the absence of vein 8 

 in the hind wings (see my note, 'Tydschrift,' I.e.), as 

 well as of the various other curious characters displayed 

 by that sex, and described, as another genus and species 

 {Auxomitia mirificalis) , a variety of Filodes fidvidorsalis 

 from the Nicobar Islands, which occurs also in Sikkim, 

 and in which the thorax, the base of fore wings, and the 

 abdomen do not show the bright fulvous colour of the 

 type, but a luteous one. Perhaps Geyer's figure was 

 drawn after a transitional specimen between the type 

 and the said variety. All the characters of Lederer's 

 mirificalis, of which he also had only one specimen 

 without abdomen, but nevertheless figures this part on 

 his plate, are those of the male sex of fulvidorsalis. 

 The genus Auxomitia thus must be wholly dropped. 



Mr. Moore's patruelis seems to be the transitional 

 variety between the type and mirificalis. The oblique 

 transverse discal black fascia is also found in the type, 

 though often indistinct. 



Sikkim ; Moller (var. mirificalis). 



[Seems to be not an uncommon species in Sikkim, 

 where I have taken both varieties ; the type occurs as 

 high as 10,000 ft. Occurs also in Java, Calcutta, East 

 Pegu, and Silhet.— H. J. E.] 



