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Genus Phalangiodes, Guen., p. 278. 

 228. Phalangiodes neptis* 



Pyralis neptis, Cramer, Uitl. Kap., iii., p. 128, pi. 264, f. 

 Phalangiodes neptisalis, Guenee, Delt. et Pyr., p. 279. 



Sikkim; Moller. 



229. Phalangiodes rividalis, nov. spec. (PI. XX., 

 figs. 1, Ifl). 



Two males of 31 and 29^ mm. and a female of 28 mm. expanse. 

 This species must be placed between neptis, Cramer, and 

 columalis, SneUen (Tyds. v. Ent., 23 (1879), p. 239 ; 27 (1883—84), 

 p. 46, pi. 4, f. 8, $ ). It has the same shape of wings and nervula- 

 tion as eolumalis, and the white spots are also without well- 

 defined dark margins; but the ground colour of the upper side of 

 the wings is still more uniform violet-grey, the basal half of hind 

 wings is vitreous white, with a large oval dark central spot on the 

 discocellular, and a sinuated hind margin. Besides, instead of the 

 two elongated vitreous white spots along the somewhat paler hind 

 margin of the wing, which we observe in neptis and columalis, 

 there is a white line, the angulated upper half of which is separated 

 by an interruption in cell 2 from the sinuated inferior part that 

 ends in the anal angle. Fore wings marked as in columalis, but 

 instead of the inferiorly dilatated vitreous white spot at one-third 

 of the wing, we find two superposed elongate spots, and a point at 

 the base of cell 2 ; second half of the wing marked with four 

 vitreous white spots, as in neptis and columalis ; they are, how- 

 ever, widely separated, and the spot in the anal angle, which is 

 somewhat lunular, as in neptis, is much narrower; ciliae grey. 

 Under side of the wings marked as above, but the ground colour 

 paler, especially on hind wings. Legs nearly white, the anterior 

 tarsi with grey hair on the first and second joints. 



Sikkim, the male of 31 mm. (0. Moller) ; Sumatra, 

 Deli (Schagen van Leeuwen) ; Java, Batavia (Piepers). 



[Seems commoner than the last in Sikkim, but I have 

 never taken it myself. — H. J. E.] 



* Plialangodes, Lederer. This name is preoccupied since 1842 

 for a genus of Arachnidce (Moore, Lep. of Ceylon, p. 310), biit I 

 believe that Phalangiodes is still disposable. 



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