( 547 ) 

 -Hill. Enpinangd labuana. 



*Dajihtns laliiiaiia Rothschild, Iris vii. p. 2'.t'.l t. 5. f. 3 ( ? ) 1894) (Labuan ; — coll. Staudinger). 



? . The similarity wiUi boniecnais ami riyeiis is, apart from structure, especially 

 evident ou the underside, where the abdomen has the red and creamy lateral 

 dots of borneensis, and the forewiug a similiir brown border and a costal patch 

 of short discal undulate lines. 



Hab. Borneo. 



Three ? ? known to us, (ine from Liibuan in coll. Staudinger {ti/pc), another 

 from "Borneo" in the K. K. Hofmusenm in Vienna, a third in the Tring Museum 

 from North Borneo (D. (Jator). 



CXXVII. RETHEKA gen. nov.— Typus : komavod. 



Deilepltila, Christoph {nun Laspeyres, 1809), in Rom., Mini. Lip. ii. p. 169 (1885). 

 Choerow nipa . Swiuhoe {non Duponchel, 1835J, Tranx. Knt. Svf. Loiul. p. 34G (1885). 

 Therelm, Kirby (mm Hilbner, 182L'), Cat. Lep. HH. i. p. 6G0 (1892). 



cJ. Genal process large, triangular; a tuft of scales beneath it (scales of 

 labial paljms). Palpus obtuse, rounded in dorsal and in lateral aspect. Head 

 with indication of crest. Eye lashed, but not heavily. Antenna incrassate 

 before hook ; this rather abrupt, not comjiressed, with the seriated ciliae (c?) 

 vestigial : end-segment three times the length of the previous, but not produced 

 into a filiform process. Spur of foretibia reaching beyond tip of tibia ; mid- and 

 hindtibial spurs unequal, longer ones less than half the length of the respective 

 first tarsal segments ; these without comb : first hindtarsal segment longer thau 

 first midtibial one, and about as long as the hindtibia ; no pulvillus, no 

 paronychium. Wings entire; SC- and 11' of hindwing on a stalk. 



i. Tenth segment elongate, simple ; tergite and sternite horizontal, little 

 curved, both obtuse. Clasper elongate sole-shaped ; a patch of rather small, 

 truDcate, friction-scales ; harpe ending in an obtuse process with parallel sides 

 and concave upper surface (PI. IL. f 1:3). Penis-sheath with an oblique series of 

 teeth (PI. LV. f 11). 



? . Not known to us. 



Early stages not known. 



Ilah. Western Asia. 



One species. 



47(1. Rethera komarovi. 



Uellfjihila hiniiiroci Christoph, ill Rom., .Mem. Ijip. ii. p. Iti'J. t. 15. f. 2. a. b ( $ ) (1885) (Askliabad ; 



near Ch.uru) ; id.. I.r. iii. p. 54 (1KK7) (= xlijinlaris) ; id., I.e. v. p. 11. n. 37 (18H9) ^Germol); 



id., Bartel, in Ruhl, (,'riixHgclim. ii. p. 130 (IDOU) (Borshom, v. — vii.). 

 *Choirmn,n/iii nlijndans Swinhoe, Tniiu. l-'.ril. Sim-. Lund. p. 346. n. 0. t, 9. f. 1 (1886) (Choman, 



May ;— MuB. Hrit. ). 

 Chaeioramjjii Klijinliivis, (Jot. iV; Swinli., I 'ill. .\/iillis Inil. i. |i. HI. n. H7 (1887). 

 Tlvniha liimuniin, Kirby, dil. Lip. Hit. \. p. (Uil). n. 115 (1892). 

 ('hui-rocninj/a lumin-url, .StaudingcF & Reb., Cat. Lep. ed. iii. p. 103. n. 760 (1901) (Pout.; Taur. ; 



Arm. ; Tura ; Afylianist.). 



i. Individually somewhat variahle. lu the pattern of the body iind wings 

 close to Cizara. 



Ilalj. Afghan istan westwards to Amasia, northwards to Transcaucasia, 

 lu the Tring Museum 'Z i 6 from : Askliabad; Amasia. 



