206 LEPIDOPTERA INDICA. 



STICHOPHTHALMA NURINISSA (Plate 161, Cgs. 1, la, h, ^ ? ). 



StichophthcUma Nuriniesa, de NiccviUe, Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 1890, p. 131, pi. C. fig. 

 c? ?• 



Imago. — Male. Upperside. Both wings differ from those of S. Nourmahal in the 

 ground-colour being paler and of a much brighter tint of chestnut-red. On the/ore- 

 loiiig the ochreous outer fascia is narrower and the dark brown margin broader. On 

 the hindieing the ochreous outer fascia is much broader, with submarginal blackish 

 points and broad marginal lunules. Underside. Both wings of a lighter colour ; 

 the transverse subbasal and discal black line less intensely edged with olivescent 

 silvery-grgy scales ; the submarginal and marginal line more sinuous and nearer 

 together ; the ocelli are similar. 



Female. Upperside also much paler, the ochreous fascia, the submarginal points 

 and marginal lunules, as in the male ; the apical white spot is larger, and there 

 is a minute spot above it and also one below it. Underside as in the male, but 

 darker coloured, the markings all more intensely defined. 



Expanse, c? S^) to 4, ? 4j;"^ to 5 inches. 



Habitat. — Bhotan. 



DiSTEiBUTiON. — " Numerous specimens were taken near Buxa, in Bhotan, by 

 the native collectors of the late Mr. Otto MoUer, and Mr. A. V. Knyvett " (de 

 Niceville, 1. c). 



Allied Chinese species of Stichophthalma. — St. Cambodia (Thaumantis Cam- 

 bodia, Hewitson, Exot. Butt. iii. Thaum. pi. fig. 2 (1862). Habitat. Cambodia. 

 — St. Hoicqua (Th. Howqua, Westwood, Trans. Em. Soc. 1851, p. 174; id. 1856, 

 p. 178, pi. 18, figs. 2, 2a. Habitat. N. China ; Formosa. — St. ftisca. Leech, Lep. 

 China, etc. p. 113, pi. 1, fig. 3, $ (1892). Habitat. W. China. — St. Neumogeni, 

 Leech, Lep. China, etc. p. 114, pi. 1, fig. 5, c? (1892). Habitat. W. China. 



Genus CLEROME. 



Clerome, Westwood, Donbleday, and Hewitson's Gen. D. Lep. p. 333 (1851) ; id. Trans. Ent. Soc. 

 1856, p. 182. Distant, Ehop. Malay, p. 80 (1882). Marshall and de Niceville, Butt of India, 

 etc. i. p. 312 (1883). Staudinger and Schiltz, Exot. Schmett. ii. p. 188 (1889). Leech, Lep. 

 China, etc. p. 112 (1892). 



Faunis, Hiibner, Verz. Schmett. p. 55 (1816), preoccupied. 



Imago. — Male. Wings short, very broad. Foreioing subtriangular ; costa much 

 arched at the base, apex rounded, posterior angle rounded, posterior margin lobularly 

 dilated near the base ; cell broad ; first subcostal branch emitted at about one-fourth 

 before end of the cell, free from the costal, second subcostal four-branched ; dis- 

 cocellulars very outwardly-oblique, upper short, twice angled near subcostal, lower 



