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very long and much recurved, being concave at its upper end and convex at its 

 lower end ; radials from upper angles of discocellulars ; upper median veinlet not 

 arched. Hindioing broadly ovate, apex somewhat obtusely pointed, exterior margin 

 very convex posteriorly, anal angle rounded ; subcostal branches arising near base 

 of the wing ; cell very narrow ; upper median veinlet arched from the base ; a 

 short very slender glandular pouch situated immediately above the base of the first 

 subcostal branch, the pouch being surrounded by a patch of fine raised hair-like scales, 

 which are directed towards the pouch, and the pouch itself being also overlapped by 

 a very slender tuft of long erectile hairs arising from below the base of the median 

 vein. Body moderately robust ; thorax woolly ; eyes naked, large ; palpi compactly 

 clothed, hairy above, slender, projected in front of the head ; antennae long, 

 slender. 



Type. — C. Arcesilaus. 



CLEROME AECESILATIS (Plate 162, figs. 1, la, b, c, J" ? ). 



Papilio Arcesilaus, Fabrioius, Mant. Ins. ii. p. 28 (1787). Donovan, Ins. Ind. pi. 30, fig. 2 



(1800). 

 Clerome Arcesilaus, Westwood, Doubleday, and Hewitson, Gen. D. Lep., p. 334, pi. 54*, fig. 5, ? 



(1851). Westwood, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1856, p. 183. Butler, Catal. Fabrician Lep. Brit. Mus. 



p. 44 (1869). Marshall and de Niccville, Butt, of India, etc. i. p. 133 (1883). Distant, Ehop. 



Malayana, p. 428, pi. 40, fig. 5 (1886). Staudinger, Exot. Schmett. i. p. 202, pi. 65, $ 



(1887) ii. p. 188, pi. 31 (1889)_ 

 Faunis Caneus, Hiibner, Samm. Exot. Schmett. ii. pi. 82, $ (1820-26). 

 Morpho Leonteus, Zinken-Sommer, Nova Acta Acad. N. C. 1831, p. 170, pi. 17, &^a. 14, 15 (1831). 



Imago. — Male. Upperside deep brownish-ochreous or fulvous, uniformly tinted 

 throughout both wings. Cilia brownish cinereous. Hindwing with a short very 

 slender glandular pouch situated immediately above the base of the first subcostal 

 branch, the pouch itself surrounded by a patch of raised fine hair-like scales which 

 are directed towards the pouch, and the pouch itself being also overlapped by a very 

 slender tuft of long erectile, hairs arising from below the base of the median vein. 

 Underside dark olivescent ochreous-brown. Both wings crossed by a wavy indis- 

 tinctly-defined blackish curved narrow subbasal fascia, and a more defined sinuous 

 narrow curved medial discal fascia ; an outer discal series of minute ochreous-white 

 spots, six on the forewing and seven ou the hindwing, followed by a slender blackish 

 submarginal sinuous line. Body beneath and legs brown ; palpi brownish-ochreous; 

 antennse reddish. 



Female. Upperside paler and brighter coloured, but with the apex and outer 

 borders darker tinted. Underside as in the male. 



Expanse, c? 2j^o to 2^^, ? 2^^ to 3 inches. 



