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species in considerable numbers in October, 1891, and 1892, in tbe virgin forests 

 at the foot of the Donat Range, Middle Tenasserim, the butterfly always keeping 

 in the shade of the great trees, and flying amongst the bushes and brushwood, on 

 which it often settled. Its flight is only equalled in weakness and gentleness by 

 Leptosia xiphia " (De Niceville Journ. Bombay N. H. Soc. 1892, p. 323). 



Indo-Malayan species of Ragadia. — B. crisia (Hiibner, Zutr. figs. 675-6 (1832). 

 Distant, Rhop. Malay, p. 420, pi. xix. fig. 7. Habitat. Malay Peninsula ; Penang ; 

 Singapore ; Borneo. — B. makuta (Horsfield, Oatal. Lep. E. I. C. pi. 5, figs. 9, 9a, 

 (1829). Habitat. Java; Sumatra. — B. annulata, Grose-Smith, Ann. Nat. Hist. 

 1887, p. 435. Habitat. N. Borneo. — B. latifasciata, Leech, The Entom, 1891, 

 p. 25; Lep. China, etc., p. 92, pi. x. fig. 2. Habitat. W. China. — B. Luzonia, 

 Pelder, Wien. Ent. Mon. 1861, p. 3.05. Semper, Reisen Phil. Lep. pi. 8, fig. 1. 

 Habitat. Luzon. — B. meUndena, Felder, 1. c. 1863, p. 125. Semper, Reisen Phil, 

 Lep. pi. 8, figs. 3, 4. Habitat. Mindanao.-T-i2. crohonica, Semper, Reisen Phil. 

 Lep. p. 46, pi. 8, figs. 7, 8, 9, c? ? . Habitat. Philippines. 



Genus ERITES, 



Writes, Westwood, Gen. B. Lep. ii. p. 392 (1851). Moore, Catal. Lep. Mus. E. I. C. i. p. 229 

 (1857). Butler, CataL Satyr. Brit. Mus. p. 146 (1868). Distant, Khop. Malay, p. 46. (1882). 

 Marshall and de NicevUle, Butt, of India, etc. i. p. 235 (1883). 



Imago. — Male. Forewing somewhat elongated and narrow, subtriangular ; 

 costa slightly arched, apex rounded, exterior margin oblique and nearly even ; costal 

 vein much swollen at the base ; cell long ; first and second subcostal branches 

 emitted before end of the cell ; discocellulars slightly concave ; upper radial from 

 slight angle close to subcostal, lower radial from above the middle ; median veinlets 

 equidistant; submedian vein recurved. Hindiving short, triavguleiTlj-ovate ; outer 

 margin convex, sinuous, slightly produced at end of upper median ; cell long ; first 

 subcostal emitted close to end of cell ; discocellular long, outwardly recurved, radial 

 from above the middle ; the middle median veinlet emitted before end of the cell. 

 Body slender ; eyes prominent, naked ; palpi very slender, erect, clothed in front 

 with fine long lax hairs, tip slender ; antennae with a gradually slender club. 



Type. — E. Madura. 



ERITES ARGENTINA (Plate 121, fig.s. 1, la, b, (? ? ). 

 Erites etrgentma, Butler, Catal. Satyr. Brit.. Mus. p. 188, pi. 5, fig. 8, ? (1868). 

 Imago. — Male. Upperside semi-transparent ; pale purpurescent fuliginous-brown; 

 marginal pale ochreous lines slender and sharply defined on the hindwiug. Foreiving 

 subtriangular ; crossed by two discal broad dusky-brown bands, beyond which is a 

 large posterior round blackish nearly-blind ocellus narrowly ringed with pale 

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