178 LEPWOPTEBA INDICA. 



Teoasserim " (Butt. Ind. i. 293). Major C. H. E. Adamson (List of Burmese 

 Butterflies, p. 10) "obtained two males, -which flew into his tent about 6 p.m. on 

 (.'hristmas Day, 1879, when encamped in evergreen forest near the sources of the 

 Thoungycen River in Upper Tenasserim." We also possess a male from Tavoy. 

 Mr. A. R. H. Tucker recently took specimens in Tavoy, in heavy forest, flying both 

 at sundown and in the early morning. 



Indo-Malayan allied species op Amathuxidia. — A. diliicida (Amathusia dilucida, 

 Honrath, Berl. Ent. Zeit, 1884, p. 206, pi. 3, fig. 3 ; pi. 4, fig. 3, b, ? (1884). 

 Distant, Rhop. Malayana, p. 423, pi. 38, fig. 7, <S (1886). Habitat. Malay Penin- 

 sula. — A. insnlaris (Amathusia insularis, Doherty, Journ. Asiatic Soc. Bengal, 181)1, 

 p. 25. Habitat. Engano, Nias Islands. — A. Purtliaov (Amathusia Porthaon Felder, 

 Reise Novara, Lep. iii. p. 779 (1867). Habitat. Java. — A. Ottomana, Butler, 

 Entom. Monthly Mag. 1869, p. 55. Habitat. Borneo. — A. Pylaon (A. Pylaon, Felder 

 Reise Novara, Lep. iii. p. 461. Habitat. Java. — A. Fliilippina (Amathusia 

 Portheus, Semper, Reisen Archipel. Philippen, Lep. p. 71, pi. 13, fig. 7, ? ). Habitat. 

 Philippines. 



The following is an allied genus : — 



Amaxidia, Staudinger, Exot. Schmett. i. p. 188 (1887). — Type. A. Aurelius, 

 (Pap. Aurelius, Cramer, Pap. Exot. ii. pi. 168, figs. A, B (1779). Hewitson, Exot. 

 Butt. Zenx, pi. figs. 1, 2 (1868). Distant, Rhop. Malayana, p. 42.'i, pi. 37, fig. 1, <S 

 (1886). Ilahitat. Sumatra; Malay Peninsula. — J.. aweZiana (A. Aureliana, Honrath, 

 Berl. Ent. Zeit. 1889, p. 162). Habitat. Borneo. 



Genus AMATHUSIA. 



Amathusia, Fabricius, Syst. Gloss. (Illiger's Mag. vi. p. 279 (1807). "Westwood, Gen. D. Lep. 

 p. 32G (1851). Distant, Rhop. Malayana, p. 70 (1882). Marshall and de Niceville, Butt, of 

 India, etc. i. p. 288 (1883). Staudinger and Schiitz, Exot. Schmett. ii. p. 185 (1889). 



M<rra (part), Hubner, Ycrz. bek. Schmett. p. 51 (IBlGj. 



Mitocems, Billberg, Enum. Ins. p. 79 (1820). 



Imago. — Male. Wings large, very broad. Forewinq short, subtriangular ; 

 costa much arched, apex obtusely rounded, exterior margin almost even, slightly 

 oblique, posterior angle round ; posterior margin nearly straight ; cell broad ; first sub- 

 costal branch emitted at about one-fifth before end of the cell and free from the costal 

 vein, second with the branches emitted close together near the apex ; discocellulars 

 erect from the middle, outwardly-oblique below the middle ; upper radial from slight 

 angle close to the subcostal, lower radial from above the middle of discocellulars ; 

 median veinlets wide apart, upper median slightly bent at one-third beyond end of 

 the cell, but not spurred ; submedian vein slightly recurved. Hindwing subtri- 

 angular, short, and very broad, produced posteriorly into a broad spatulate tail at 



