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Genus NEOPITHECOPS. 



Neopithecops, Distant, Rhop. Malay. 1884, p. 209 ; dc N. Butt. Ind. 



iii, 1890, p. 61. 



Pithecops, Moore (nee Horsfield), Lep. Ceyl. i, 1881, p. 72. 

 Parapithecops, Moore, J. A. S. B. 1884, p. 20. 



Type, N. zalmora, Butler, from the Malay Peninsula. 



liange. India, Assam, Burma, Ceylon, the Andaman Islands, 

 and Malay Peninsula. 



(5 5 . Fore wing : broader proportionately than in the genus 

 Pitliecops ; costa arched but less rounded at apex ; termen convex, 

 tornus well-marked, dorsum straight ; cell distinctly longer than 

 half the length of the fore wing ; venation much as in Pitliecops, 

 but all the veins wide apart and distinct, vein 11 not anastomosed 

 with vein 12. Hind wing also not so narrow proportionately as 

 in PitJiecops; cell considerably longer. Antennae more than half 

 length of fore wing ; club well-marked, but long, concave, or 

 excavate on the inner side ; eyes naked ; palpi as in Pitliecops, but 

 the third joint stouter, longer proportionately and more blunt at 

 apex. 



A single form is known from within our limits. 



G81 . Neopithecops zalmora, Butler ( Pithecops), Cat. Fabr. Lep. B. M. 



1869, p. 1(31 ; de N. Butt. Ind. iii, 1890, p. 53. 

 Pithecops hylax, Moore (nee Fabr.}, P. Z. S. 1877, p. 587. 

 Pithecops dharma, Moore, Lep. Ceyl. i, 1881, p. 72, pi. 34, fig. 4 J . 

 Parapithecops gaura, Moore, J. A. S. B. 1884, p. 20. 

 Neopithecops horsfieldi, Distant, Rhop. Malay. 1884, p. 210, pi. 22, 

 fig. 16 c?. 



Wet-season brood. c? 5- Upperside: dark purplish brown; in 

 the 5 slightly paler on the disc of the fore wing. In most specimens, 

 but not in all, the d 1 also has the disc of the fore wing similarly paler. 

 Underside : white. Fore wing : apex dusky brown, apices of 

 veins 10, 11 and 12 with a minute black dot ; no discal markings, 

 but the discocellulars picked out with a short, very slender, obscure 

 brown line ; a postdiscal, irregular, transverse series of slender 

 brown lunules, followed by a transverse, very slender, sinuous 

 brown line, the white ground-colour in the interspaces beyond 

 centred by a subterminal series of transverse black spots. Hind 

 wing : discocellulars with a short brown line similar to that on 

 the fore wing, followed by a subdorsal small round black spot, 

 and a subcostal much larger similar spot ; between these two 

 spots is a curved, very irregular line of detached pale ashy-brown 

 lunules ; the subterminal markings very similar to those on the 

 fore wing. Cilia of fore wing dusky brown, of hind wing white. 

 Antennae, head, thorax and abdomen dark brown ; the antenna? 

 on the inner side speckled with white ; beneath : the palpi, thorax 

 and abdomen white. 



Dry-season brood. <$ $ . Differs from specimens of the wet- 

 season brood as follows : Upperside'. ground-colour not so dark 

 generally. Fore wing : a large oval snow-white spot placed 



