neio Eastern Lepidoptei-a. Gl 



and a female) tliere is a minute white dot within tlie black 

 spot, on the right wing only. The female is like the male, 

 but the wings are slightly longer, and therefore compara- 

 tively rather narrower, and the colour above and below is 

 uniformly paler. 



Expanse of wings Ijo" inch. 



Quetta, Beluchistan ; several examples of both sexes, sent 

 to me by Col. Sir A. H. McMalion. 



Family Nymphalidae. 

 Cyrestis subohscwus, no v. 



S. Antennse black; palpi with first joint white, second 

 and third black above, white beneath ; body and wings 

 purplish blackish brown ; the ground-colour of the wings in 

 most parts is really purplish grey, but there are ten dark 

 pur])lish-brown transverse bands across both wings, packed 

 so closely together as to give the wings a blackish appear- 

 ance : on the fore wings there is a white band between the 

 fifth and sixth dark bands, a large white spot with square 

 upper and lower ends in the middle of the next band, a small 

 white dot above it near the costa, and an orange semi-square 

 spot with a black dot in it at the hinder angle, and some thin 

 white transverse streaks before the outer margin : on the 

 hind wings most of the narrow spaces between the dark bands 

 are more or less white, the whitest being in the middle, the 

 first inner space next to it, one near the abdominal margin, a 

 short streak below the apex, and another very tiiin one sub- 

 marginal ; the anal lobe and space above it has a large orange 

 ])atcii, rounded on its upper side, with three or four black 

 spots in it. On the underside the wings are very similarly 

 marked, but the bands are dark and white alternately, the 

 ilark bands thin and much paler than they are above; body 

 and legs white. 



Expanse of wings 2j1q inches. 



Sitoli, Nias ; one example. 



Allied to C. mfenalis, Erichson, and C. semin'ujm, Grose- 

 Smith : it is not referred to by Dr. Ludwig Martin in his 

 monograph of the genus ('Iris,' 1903, p. 71); it belongs to 

 his No. 2 Nivea-Gruppe Sykoj)hages. 



Family Sphingidae. 

 Genus Pentateuciia, nov. 

 * Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, slendc'r, 

 * I owe this diagnosis to Sir Georf,'o Hampson. 



