CASYAPA. ICQ 



157. CASYAPA PHAN/EUS, HEWITSON. 



Eudamus phanceus, Hewitson, Desc. Hesp., p. 14, n. 24 (1867). 



Casyapa phanceus, Distant, Rhop. Mai., p. 386, pi. xxxv, fig. 18 

 (1886). 



Erionota ? lalita, Doherty, J. A. S. B., 1886, p. 263. 



" </ . Above light but very bright ferruginous, slightly paler out- 

 wardly, marked with translucent ochreous spots set in black rings. On 

 the forewing, one large triangular spot near the end of the cell, another 

 larger and quadrate below it between the lower median branches, a third 

 much smaller and rounded, slightly beyond them between the upper 

 medians. Below these two minute ones with the translucent pupil obso- 

 lescent, set obliquely in the interno-median space : also five subapical ones, 

 small, well separated, the third and fourth furthest from the base, the third 

 largest, the fourth and fifth minute. Hindwing with a transverse black 

 spot at the end of the cell, and a semicircle of eight smaller ones on the 

 disc round it, of which only one or two are pupilled with hyaline : the first 

 which is placed basally between the costal and subcostal veins is obscure. 

 Below duller ferruginous, the markings similar, the black rings of the spots 

 of the forewing less distinct. Body densely clad with rust-red fur, eyes 

 scarlet. Expanse sixty millimetres. ? unknown, probably very similar. 



I caught two males on Sirtai Mountain (2,000 ft.), in the Lushai 

 country, north-east of Chittagong and South of Cachar. 



The type of Erionota is thrax, but Mabille includes irava in the genus. 

 On account of its possible affinity with that species (which I have never 

 seen), I put this rare butterfly under the head of Erionota. It seems 

 however to bear more resemblance to Felder's species of Chcetocneme and 

 Netrocoryne from the Australian and Austro- Malayan region." (Dohcvty, I. c.) 

 This species was first described from Sarawak, Borneo, by Hewitson. 

 Distant records it from Malay Peninsula, Singapore (Wallace, coll. Godman 

 and Salving. 



In collection de Niceville, and there are several specimens in the 

 Rangoon Museum, from Rangoon, and also from Myittha in Tavoy. 



158. CASYAPA LIDDERDALI, ELWES. 



Ckatocneme 1 lidderdali, Elwes, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1888, p. 459. 



" This remarkable species is only known to me from a single 

 specimen in the British Museum, which came out of Lidderdale's collec- 

 tion, and though it may possibly have come from Buxa, is more probably 

 a Sikkim insect. 



Colour olive-brown, darker towards the apex, with yellowish-olive hair 

 on thorax and hindwing. A series of irregular transparent spots near the 

 apex of forewing, and five larger ones in a band across it, the largest of 

 which closes the end of the cell. On the hindwing above is a series of 

 eight oblong black spots margined with light olive. Fringe of hindwing 



