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/. Fnrewiiig below witb a large, anteriorly 

 rather sharply defined, orange-tawny 

 area extending from R^ to near hinder 

 margin, rest of wing very much 



darker 232. .1/. apectahilis. 



Forewing without that patch, or t lie patch 

 small and clayish tawny, not well 

 defined anteriorly ..... g. 



(/. Body above with a prominent mesial line ; 

 upjierside of wings and body very 

 uniform in colour, without distinct 

 pale shades, subanal spot M^ of hind- 

 wing absent or vestigial . . . 231. M. cristata. 

 Body without heavy mesial line, or wiugs 



with pale shades ..... Ii. 



h. Forewing with the most distal line 

 double, the exterior one of the pair 

 the heavier . . . . . 233. ^1/. di/ras. 

 Forewing with tlie most distal line not 

 double, or the exterior one of the pair 

 vestigial .......' i. 



i. Forewing below uniformly vandyke- 

 brown, or the basal half much paler 

 than the distal half .... 23o. .1/. timora. 

 Forewing below pale ochraceous-buff or 



cream-colour, much shaded with grey 238. M. spt'rchius. 



J. Forewing below cream-colour ; apical 



area not tawny . .... 23'.). M. qmrcus. 

 Forewing below pale ochraceous-buff ; 



apical area tawny, sharply defined . 234. ,1/. a»ihoinii;ui<. 



Butler enumerated tliese species under Trijitoqon — except ijuercus, which he 

 pnt together with tiliae and decolor into Mimas — and quoted Bremer as author of 

 Tripfogon. Moore, when projiosing the new name Marumba, said that the type 

 of 'J'n'pfOf/on was f/iasi/ni/is, an insect generically distinct from Manimha. Neither 

 Butler nor Moore had read, we think, what Bremer said in the place which tliey 

 ijuote. He distinctly stated that he placed dissimilis only provisionally into 

 'I'rip/ogon—a, nondescript genus proposed in 18.57 by Mdnetries for some South 

 American Sfsiinne — and that he would bring it into a new genus in a later 

 I«per, which intention he did not carry out. How Bntler and Bloore arrived 

 at the conclusion that dix.siiHilin was the type of Triptoqon we are at a loss to 

 understand. 



Kirby, in his ('atalogne, placed qncrciiK into a separate genus, which he called 

 IjUOllinc ; there is no justification whatever for sejiarating ry/^(,'/'6V/.s f vom Jnnkowskii, 

 »peicldu.i, etc. It is needless to show that Butler's Mimas was ([uite unnatural ; 

 the three species under that name belong to three genera. Collectors of Palaearctic 

 Lepido]]tera are, as a rule, contented with placing the sjjecies o( Marumba together 

 with ii motley of other forms under the generic term Smnrinthus ; Staudinger and 

 Ki'bcl, in tlieir Catalogue, seiiarating, liowever, tiliae from the rest as Dilina! A 



