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Tucker also recently took it in Tavoy. " Capt. C. T. Bingham obtained a male on 

 the Donat range in January, and another in the Thoungyeen forests towards the 

 end of the year, and there are specimens in the Indian Museum, Calcutta, from 

 Sylhetand Moulmain" (Butt. Ind. II., 272). 



It also occurs in the Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, and Labuan, Borneo. 



Chinese Species of Mubwareda. — M. Nepenthes (Char. Nepenthes, G-rose Smith, 

 Entom. Mo. Mag. 1883, p. 68 ; id. Rhop. Exot. Ghar. pi. 2, figs. 3, 4. Habitat. Siam. 

 — M. Bothschildi (Char. Rothschildi, Leech, Lep. China, etc., p. 128, pi. 14, fig. 3, ^ 

 (1891). 8yn. Char. Ganymedes, Leech, Entom. Suppl. p. 30 (1891). Habitat. 

 W. China. — M. Narcasus (Nymph. Narcaeus, Hewitson, Exot. Butt. I., Nymph, pi. 1, 

 fig. 1, 4 (1854). Habitat. N. China.— Chusan Island (Capt. Walker, R.N.). Japan.— 

 M. Mandarinus {Gha,r. Mandarinus Felder, Reise, Nov. Lep. III. p. 437 (1867).' 

 Habitat. Shanghai. N. China. — Chusan Island (Capt. Walker, R.N.). — M. Tibetanus 

 (Char. Tibetanus, Oberthur, Etud. Entom. XV., p. 11, pi. 2, fig. 10 (1891). Habitat. 

 E. Tibet. — M. Menedemus (Char. Menedemus, Oberthur, Etud. Entom. XV., p. 13, 

 pi. 2, fig. 9 (1891). Habitat. W. China. — M. Posidonius (Char. Posidonius, Leech, 

 Entom. Suppl., p. 30 (1891); id. Lep. China, etc., p. 127, pL 14, fig. 4 3. Syn. 

 Char. Clitiphon, Oberthur, Etud. Entom. XV., p. 12, pi. 2, fig. 11. Habitat. W. 

 China. 



Genus HELCYRA, 



Helcyra, Felder, Sitzt. Akad. Wiss. Wien. xl. p. 450 (1860), Neues Lep. pp. 37, 44 (1861). de 

 Niceville, Butt, of India, etc., ii. p. 45 (1886). 



Imago. — Male. Wings short, broad. Foreiving subtriangular ; costa arched, 

 apex obtuse, exterior margin slightly oblique, almost even, posterior angle rounded ; 

 subcostal vein five branched, first subcostal veinlet emitted at one-fifth before 

 upper end of the cell, second at a short distance beyond the end, third 

 at fully half beyond the end, fourth and fifth at fully half between the 

 third and the apex ; upper discocellular very short, slightly bent close to 

 subcostal ; the two radials from the angle ; cell open ; median veinlets wide 

 apart ; submedian vein straight. Hindtving triangularly-ovate ; base of anterior 

 margin much arched ; apex rather pointed, exterior margin convex posteriorly, 

 sinuous ; precostal vein curved outward ; subcostals and radial emitted together 

 from upper end of the cell ; the cell open. Body robust, thorax hairy ; palpi 

 obliquely porrect, compactly scaled, second joint hairy above, apex pointed ; forelegs 

 of the male hairy ; middle and hind legs scaley ; fore legs of the female smooth, fore- 

 tarsus slightly thickened beneath at the apex, the apical joints each with a 

 terminal short spine on each side ; eyes naked ; antennae rather long, slender, with 

 a short thick ovate club, which is finely tricarinated on its inner side. 



Type. — H. Chionippe. 



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