76 



338. Gynautocera fraterna. 



Histia fraterna. Moore: P. Z. S., Lond., 1883, p. 15. 



Cotes and Swinh. : Cat. Moths of India, ii. 69. 398 (1887). 

 Gynautocera fraterna. Butler : 111. Typ. Lep. Het., B. M., vii. p. 27, 



pi. 121, f. 7 (1889). 

 Type. Calcutta, in B. M. 

 a. Calcutta. b. India. 



339. Gynautocera virescens. 



Histia virescens. Felder: Sitz. Akad. Wiss., xliii. p. 29 (1862). 

 Reise Nov. Lep., iv. pi. 83, f. 9 (1874). 



Walker: xxxi. in 



a. Bachian (Wallace). b. Ternate (Wallace). c. Morty 



(Wallace). 



GENUS PnSTTIA. Walker: ii. 280(1854). 



340. Pintia insularis. n. sp. 



<j ? Antennas black, shaft tinged with glaucus green, head, thorax, 

 and abdomen glaucus green, shining and blue in some lights, front 

 of head whitish. Fore-wings black, with a sub-apical whitish macular 

 band of two largish spots, each spot divided by the veins and covered 

 with minute blackish scales. Hind- wings brown, with the white 

 spots below partially showing through at the apex and outer portions, 

 and with the whole of the interior portion of the wings shining blue 

 green, being densely covered with scales of that colour. 



Underside, wings blackish brown, fore-wing with the white sub- 

 apical band clear and without the minute black scales, a white 

 streak from the base halfway through the centre of the wing. Hind- 

 wings with the interspaces white, leaving the veins and outer margin 

 brown, body and legs whitish irrorated with brown. 



Expanse of wings I j^y inches. 

 a. Singapore (type) (Swinhoe). b. Singapore (Horsley). 



Has rounder wings than P. ferrea (Walker), is a much smaller 

 insect of much the same pattern below, but is unique in its beautiful 

 blue green hind-wings above ; it is not uncommon in the Malay 

 archipelago. I have it in my own collection from Singapore and 

 Johore, and it is in the B. M. from Sumatra. 



341. Pintia ferrea. 



Eterusia ferrea. Walker: ii. 431 (1854). 



vii. 1671 (1856). 



Pintia ferrea. Butler: 111. Typ. Lep. Het., B. M., v. p. 23, pi. 83, f. 7 



(1881). ' 

 Cotes and Swinh. : Cat. Moths of India, ii. 68. 392 (1887). 



Type. Hong Kong, in B. M. 



a. Sumatra (2) (Wallace). b. Assam (Jenkins). c. Silhet. 



d. India. e. Nilgiri Hills. 



