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Lond., 1893, p. 93, the type of which is C.jolus, Cramer, from South 

 America. Of the Asiatic genera hitherto diagnosed it comes nearest 

 to Lotongus, Distant, from which, however, it may instantly be known 

 by the inner and outer margins of the forewing being of equal length, 

 in Lotongus the inner is much shorter than the outer margin. The 

 only species of this genus known to me have very much the aspect 

 from the upperside of species of the genus Ismene, Swainson, but they 

 differ from all species of the Ismene group in the form of the antenme 

 and palpi and in the neuration. The male has a short rather indistinct 

 discal black streak of modified scales running obliquely and continuously 

 from the origin of the third median nervule to just beyond the first 

 median nervule and appearing again as a raised spot on the submedian 

 nervure. 



(1) MIMAS MILTIAS, Kirsch. 



Ismene miltias, Kirsch, Mitth. K. Zool. Museum, Dresden, vol. i, pt. 2, p. 128, n. 127,pl.vri, 

 fig. 6, female (1877). 



Habitat : Jobi Island near New Guinea (Kirsch) ; Humboldt's 

 Bay, North New Guinea (de Melville). 



Description : Male. Upperside, both wings and cilia dark shin- 

 in o- bronzy-brown. Forewing with the basal third of the surface from 

 the costa to the inner margin rich ferruginous, and with the black streak 

 peculiar to the genus on the disc. Hindwing also with the basal third 

 of the surface and the abdominal margin almost to the anal angle rich 

 ferruginous. Underside, forewing with rather more than the basal 

 third of the costa and extending outwardly into the discoidal cell rich 

 ferruginous. Hindwing with the basal half of the costa extending 

 slio-htly into the cell rich ferruginous. Thorax above clothed with 

 ferruginous setse. Abdomen dark brown above, the segments beneath 

 narrowly banded with ochreous. Antennae, blacky the club beneath 

 cinereous. 



Herr Th. Kirsch does not mention the sex of the example of this 

 species which he described, but from the coloration and stoutness of the 

 abdomen, as shewn in his figure, I would judge it to have been a 

 female. 



Described from a single example in my collection kindly given to 

 me by its capturer, Mr. William Doherty. 



