ISMENE. 



Expanse, 2^ inches. 



Habitat, N. E. Bengal." (Moore, I. c.) 



Also recorded from Sikkim by Messrs. Elwes and de Niceville. 



In collections Indian Museum and de Niceville. 



9. CHOASPES CRAWFURDI, DISTANT. 



Ismene cvawfuvdi, Distant, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., fifth series, 

 vol. x, p. 247 (1882). 



Choaspes crawfurdi, Distant, Rhop. Mai., p. 372, pi. xxxiv, fig. 26. 

 (1882-86). 



" Wings above obscure olivaceous green, becoming tinged with fuscous 

 towards outer margins. Posterior wings with a large anal angular bright 

 yellowish patch, inwardly and broadly margined with black, apical portion 

 of abdominal margin also bright yellowish. Wings beneath paler and more 

 metallic green, the nervures and nervules distinctly darker ; posterior wings 

 with a very large bright yellowish anal angular patch, which extends from 

 about middle of abdominal margin to between the second and third median 

 nervules, and which possesses a long black irregular streak on inner side 

 of submedian nervure, two parallel black streaks between the submedian 

 nervure and lower median nervule, and two similarly placed black spots 

 between the second and third median nervules on outer edge of the yellow 

 patch. Body above more or less concolorous with wings, anal tuft yellow ; 

 body beneath and legs paler. 



Expanse, 52 to 58 millims. 



Habitat, Malay Peninsula ; Penang (Biggs coll. Distant) ; Province 

 Wellesley (coll. Distant}:' (Distant, I. c.) 



There is a single specimen of this species in the Rangoon Museum 

 obtained at Myitta, Tavoy. There appears to be no other record of this 

 species within British limits. 



GENUS W. ISMENE. 



Ismene, Swainson, Zool. Illust., vo). i, pi. 16 (1820-21). 



Ismene, Moore, Lep. Cey., vol. i, p. 157 (1881). 



" Forewing short, broad, triangular; costa much arched at the base, 

 exterior margin oblique, shorter than posterior margin ; cell extending to 

 more than half the wing, very narrow at the base ; first subcostal emitted 

 at beyond one-third, second and third at equal distances between first and end 

 of the cell, fourth at half distance between third and fifth ; disco-cellulars 

 inwardly oblique, of equal length, upper bent inward near the subcostal ; 

 upper radial from its angJe, lower from their middle ; upper median 

 branch arched at the base within the cell, middle median at two-thirds 

 before end of the cell and close to the lower median ; submedian recurved. 

 Male with a large basal circular glandular patch of raised scales : hindwing 

 short, broad, anterior margin much arched, exterior margin convex, abdomi- 

 nal margin short ; costal vein arched towards the end, cell short ; second 

 subcostal at nearly one-third from- the base ; disco-cellulars very slender, 



