( 473 ) 



111 tlie Tniig Museum 35 <?<?, 3 ?? from: Miijiiii, vi. ; Cliia-Ting-Fa, 

 W. I'Liua, vii. ; Bluitau ; Sikhim ; Kbasia Hills. 



b! S- inj'crnalis f. unij'onnis. 



*Salasj}es infernalh, BoisduTal, Spec. Gen. Lep. lli-t. i. p. 378. n. 1. t. 10. f. 1. 2 (1875) (partim) ; 



Hamps., in Blanf., Vmma Brit, hid., Motlm i. p. 121. n. 200 (1892) (partim). 

 *Siiltispes tiiiifoniiis Butler, Proe. Zitol. ,Suc. Load. p. 3. n. 1 (187a) (Silhet ; — Mus. Brit.) ; id., 



Trail.-:. Zool. Hoc. Lund. i.x. p. .518. n. 2 (1877) ; Cot. & Swinh., Ciil. Moths Lid. i. p. 1. n. 2 



(1877) ; Swinh., Cat. Lep. Bel. JI,i». (h: i. p. 1. u. 2 (1K92) (Silhet). 



c?. Abdomen with few or no yellow scales ; otherwise like the preceding. 

 IJab. South aud North India ; probably everywhere within the range of 

 injernalis. 



The disc of the wings is too strongly glossy in Boisduval's figures. 

 In the Triiig Museum 1 c? from Sikhim. 



e.' S. iiifeninli.H f. (/lossutri.r no v. 

 Saldspes iiifeniiijis Boisduval, t.r. (partim ; Java, J ). 



c? ? . Abd<iaien without yellow scales ; disc of wings metallic bluish green; 

 liase of wings below white ; lobes of tenth tergite longer than in Indian and(!hiuese 

 individuals. 



Length of forewing : c?, 31 mm. 



Hall. Sebaiiwang H., Borneo, January 1800. 



One sperimen {ti/j/e) iu the Paris Museum ; Java (Boisduval). 



4(12. Sataspes tagalica. 



*fiatii!<iies tiifialiia Boisduval, Spee. Geii. Li'p. llel. i. p. 378. n. 2. t. 10. f. 3. 4 (1875) (Burias, 

 Philippines ; — coll. Charles Oberthiir). 



S. Posterior abdominal sternites pale primrose yellow. Tenth tergite 

 (PI. XLIII. f. 27) with the lobes spatulate, apex somewhat twisted, feebly 

 truncate, inner angle slightly acuminate, a sharp tooth at upper edge of lobe. 

 (JIasper as in rnj'erimlls, but tooth d broader, lobe pdr more rounded, plate a 

 smaller. Fore- and hindwing with yellow basal costal tnft beneath; base of 

 liindwing with some white scaling. 



?. Thorax without yellow scaling, abdomen below with the yellow area of c? 

 vestigial, or the abdomen entirely without yellow scales. 



We unite here a number of ditferent-looking insects as forms of one sjiecies. 

 Tliey agree in structure, as far as we have been able to study them. The material 

 18 scanty in collections, but what we have seen confirms us in the belief that we 

 have to do with one variable s|iecies instead of five. We are the more convinced of 

 the correctness of this view, as individual variability in the amonut of yellow is 

 illnsi rated also iiy <S'. inJin-naUx. 



Iliih. Indo-Malayan Subregion. 



Five forms, characterised as follows : 



a.' S. tatjiiUrii {'. liKjaVicii. 



*S,ilii>/m lai/iiliiii Boi.sduval, /.'•. ; Semp., Selim. I'hilipp. ii. p. 4ll8. n. (i:! (IHOG) (" not received "). 



*SiilnipeH renlriiliK Butler, I'rur. Xual. Sin: Lnml. p. 3. ii. 2 (187.5) (lluiiykoug ; Silhet; Mus. IJrit.) : 

 ill., TruiiK. '/muI. Sue. Loud. ix. p. ,M8. n. 3 (1877) ; Cot. & Swinh., Vtit. .Unt/ix /ml. i. p. 1. n. 3 

 (1887); Kirhy, Col. Lep. Ilel. i. p. 033. n. 4 (]8!)2) (Hongkong ; Silhet); llamps., in Blanf., 

 I''iimui liiit. 1ml., .Miit/iH i, p. 122. n. 207 (|h;i2) (Sikhini ; Silhet ; liiinna ; Hongkong) ; Uudg., 

 ./num. JIoiiiIjii]/ A'. //. Sue. xi. p. 411). n. 207 (I8y8) (" not seen "). 



