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are outwardly-angled; an ocellated black submarginal spot between tlie medians. 

 Underside similar to the male, except that the transverse discal white fascia is 

 narrower. 



Expanse, S ? 2^q inches. 



Habitat. — Tenasserim ; Malay Peninsula. 



DiSTEiBUTiON.- — Mr. L. de Niceville, in a letter dated December 17th, 1894, 

 writes me that he has received specimens of this insect from Tenasserim. 



Mr. "W. L. Distant (Rhop. Malayans, p. 101) records it from the Malay 

 Peninsula; Province Wellesley, Malacca, Singapore, Java, and Borneo. 



Genus HERONA. 



Herona, Doubleday, Gen. D. Lep. pi. 41 (1848). Westwood, id. ii. p. 293 (1850). de Niceville, 

 Butt, of India, etc., ii. p. 60 (1886). Staudinger and Sohiltts, Lep. Exot. p. 134 (1887). 



Imago. — Male. Foreiving elongated, triangular, costa regularly arched, apex 

 obtuse, exterior margin oblique, almost even, convexly-angular below the apex, 

 posterior margin nearly straight ; first subcostal branch emitted at one-fifth and 

 second at a short distance before end of the cell, third at nearly one-third beyond, 

 and fourth and fifth at one-third from the apex ; discocellulars short, radials from 

 angle close to subcostal and lower end ; cell open ; lower and middle median widely 

 apart, upper much curved. Hindwing short, triangularly-ovate, base of costa much 

 arched, exterior margin obliquely-convex, broadly scalloped; precostal vein bent 

 outward near tip ; subcostals and radial widely divergent ; cell open. Bodtj 

 moderately robust ; palpi obliquely porrected, approximate at end, tips pointed ; 

 antennge long, slender, club long and slender ; eyes naked. 



Type.— H. Marathus. 



HERONA MARATHTTS (Plate 195, fig. 2, 2a, h, ^ ? ). 



Herona Marathus, Doubleday, Gen. D. Lep. pi. 41, fig. 3, S (1848); Westwood, id. p. 294 (1850). 

 de Niceville, Butt, of India, etc., ii. p. 61 (1886). Staudinger, Lep. Exot. pi. 48, ? (1885). 

 Adamaon, List Burmese Butt. p. 13 (1889), 



Imago — Male. Upperside f ulvescent-black ; with fulvous markings. Foreiving 

 with the costal border basally fulvous; an outwardly oblique fulvous bar across end 

 of the cell, an elongate spot between the middle and lower median veinlets, and a 

 narrower longer streak from the base below the median, beyond which is an out- 

 wardly oblique upper discal macular band, followed by a submarginal irregular band, 

 of which latter the anterior end before the apex is broad and bears a triangular 



