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cocoanut leaves" (Distant, Rhop. Malay. 71). "In Java," according to Mr. 

 Piepers (Tijd. xix. pp. 18, 24) " the sun has scarcely set before we see everywhere 

 this and a few other species of like habits ;" but the same author remarks, " I never 

 saw these species wandering about at night in the moonlight, or entering lighted 

 rooms, like the true night-moths, although, like the latter, they sit still and repose 

 all day, and, if disturbed, only fly a little way and settle again directly " (Distant, 

 1. c. p. 71). Mr. Collingwood (Rambles of a Naturalist, 183) speaks of these 

 butterflies in the Bornean Island, Labuan, as making " their appearance near sunset, 

 when, from their large size, they might be almost mistaken for small bats." 



Of our illustrations of this species on Plate 146, figs. 1, la, b represent the 

 male and female from Burma, and fig. Ic the larva and pupa, from Horsfield's 

 drawings. On Plate 147, fig. 1 represents the Pegu male variety, and fig. 2 the 

 Andaman female. 



Indo-Malayan allied species of Amathusia. — Amaih. Pollicaris, Butler, Trans. 

 Ent. Soc. 1870, p. 485. Semper, Reisen Archipel. Philippen, Lep. p. 71. Habitat. 

 Luzon, Philippines. — Amath. Schonbergii, Honrath, Berl. Ent. Zeit. 1887, p. 347, 

 pi. 6, fig. 1. Habitat. Malay Peninsula (? Boi'ueo). — Amath. Ochraceofusca, 

 Honrath, id. p. 348. Habitat. Malay Peninsula. 



The following is an allied genus :— Pseudamathqsia, Honrath, Corr.-Blatt. Iris, 

 1886, p. 91. r. virgata (Amathusia virgata Butler, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1870, p. 486). 

 Syn. P. Ribbei, Honratb, id. p. 91, pi. 3, fig. 1 (1886). Habitat. Celebes. 



Genus NANDOGEA. 



Imago. — Male. Forewing "with the apex and exterior margin more rounded 

 than in Thaumantis (Odana) ; cell broader. Hindiving more rounded, the exterior 

 margin more uneven, anal angle convex and not produced posteriorly; furnished 

 with only a small slmder tuft of erectile hairs arising from below base of the sub- 

 costal, but not accompanied with any perceptible glandular patch, either above or 

 within the cell (as occurs in Odana). On the underside of the forewing there is a 

 short nacreous basal area below the median vein, and an elongated dull silvery-patch 

 below the base of the submedian vein. 



Type. — N. Diores. 



NANDOGEA DIOEES (Plate 148, figs. 1, la, b,(?, ?). 



Thaumantis Diores, Doubleday, Annals of Nat. Hist. 1845, p. 234. Westwood, Gen. D. Lep. p. 337 

 (1851), id. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1856, p. 171. Moore, Catal. Lep. ilus. E. I. Company, i. p. 215 

 (1857). Marshall and de Kiccville, Butt, of India, etc. i. p. 304 (1883). 



