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species placed in this genus by its author, together with one other, .nay be 

 distinguished by the characters given below. In salsala and stellifer the white 

 spots on the hind wing below are very inconstant in size and number, and so, in a 

 lesser degree, are the white spots on the fore wing of the females of those species. 



Males. 



Fore wing above not banded with yellow-red. Hind wing below with 2-4 small 

 snow-wMte spots (sometimes absent) . No patch of androconia on the 

 hind wing above. 

 Fore wing above with a sordid yellow macvilar band running obliquely 

 outwards from the middle of the dorsum (sometimes indistinct, but 

 always indicated by more or less distinct patches of golden-yellow scales) . salsala, Moore. 

 Fore wing above without any trace of a pale discal macular oblique band . . stellifer, Butl. 

 Fore wing above with a broad yellow-red postmedian band, whicii is sometimes 

 more or less abbreviated at each end. A large patch of androconia at 

 the base of the hind wing above near the costa. 

 Fore wing below : red band narrower, lying at a right angle to the dorsum 

 and reaching about halfway across cell 3, its inner edge nearly straight, 



not indented at the end of the cell s'mdu, Feld. 



Fore wing below : red band broader, reaching to about the apical sixth of cell 3, 

 its inner edge deeply indented at the end of the cell, its outer edge 

 forming an almost regular curve from the apical fifth of the costa to 

 the tornus latifascia, n. sp. 



! Iambrix salsala. 



Nisoniades salsala, Moore, P. Z. S. 1865, p. 786. 



Astictopterus salsala, Distant, Rhop. Mai. p. 401, pi. xxxiv. tig. 21 (1886). 



In typical females of this species there is on the underside of the fore wing a round 

 white spot at the end of the cell and a curved postmedian series of roundish white 

 spots, placed one each in cells 2-8 inclusive, and decreasing in size towards the 

 costa. 



Hah. Sikkim (Moller) ; Assam, Naga hills, East Pegu, Perak {Bolierty) ; Burmah 

 (Adamson); Ceylon; Ganjam [Minchin) ; West Java [Piepers); 'K\ndi'&dlu.{Waterstradt). 



! Iambrix stellifer. 



Astictopteryx stellifer, Butler, Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond., Zool. ser. 2, vol. i. p. 555 (1877) ; Moore, 

 Lep. Cey. vol. i. p. 163 (1881). 



This is a good and distinct species, notwithstanding all that has been written to the 

 contrary. In typical females there is on the underside of the fore wing a round 

 white spot in the cell and three other roundish white spots placed as follows, namely : 

 one near the basal third of cell 2, one near the basal third of cell o, and one near 



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