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Genus PRIONERIS. 



Frioneris, Wallace, Trans. Ent. Sue. 1807, p. 383 ; flutler, Cist. Enf. 

 i, 1870, p. 39, pi. 1, fig. 1, venation; Moore, Lep. Ceyl. i, 1881, 

 p. 140 ; id. Lep. Incl vi, 1905, p. 1-86. 



Type, P. tJtesti/lis, Doubleday, from N.E. India. 



liange. Indo-Malavan liegion ; China. 



<3 $ . Fore wing : costa widely arched, strongly serrated in d 1 ; 

 apex produced, subacute ; termen oblique, slightly concave in the 



middle towards tornus, which 

 latter is rounded ; dorsum com- 

 paratively short, only about two- 

 thirds length of the costa ; cell 

 slightly longer than half the 

 length of the wing ; vein 6 out 

 of lower side of 7 well beyond 

 apex of cell, upper discocellular 

 therefore absent ; middle dis- 

 cocellular very oblique, lower 

 slightly less oblique and shorter 

 than middle ; vein 8 absent; 

 vein 9 from within apical third 

 of 7 ; veins 10 and 11 free, 

 emitted and extended close 

 together from just beyond 

 middle of subcostal vein. Hind- 

 wing more or less pyriform ; 

 costa nearly straight from base 

 to near apex, then strongly 

 arched, the arch continued along 

 the termen to the tornus ; tornus 

 rounded, not well-marked ; dor- 



I. 



11- 



_ Fig. 38. 



Prioneris thestylis, venation, 

 I. Fore wing. 

 II. Hind wing. 



sum widely arched ; cell long, placed in the middle of the wing, 

 the area above it to the costa very broad ; discocellulars very long, 

 outwardly oblique, lower apex acute ; precostal spur or vein out- 

 wardly curved. Antennae long, slender, slightly more than half 

 length of fore wing; club long and very gradual; palpi sub- 

 porrect, thickly fringed with long stiff hairs anteriorly, third joint 

 short, slightly clavate, scaled ; head above with a tuft of long 

 hairs ; eyes large, prominent, naked ; thorax and abdomen mode- 

 rately stout. 



Key to the forms of Frioneris. 



a. Underside hind wing with no basal red patch. 

 a f . Underside hind wing with no terminal 



series of red spots .................... P. thesti/lis, p. lol . 



V ' . Underside hind wing with a terminal series 



of red spots ...... . ................... P. sita, p. 154. 



b. Underside hind wing with a basal red patch. . P. clemanthe, p. 158. 



