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Exot. pi. 69, fig. 1, ? (1835). Moore, Tr. Ent. Soc. 1859, p. 73. Frulist. Berl. Ent. 

 Zeit. 1894, p. 245, pi. 18, fig. 7, ? . Habitat. Java. — Gynitia Bottgeri (Felderia 

 Bottgeri, Frulist. Berl. Ent. Zeit. 1894, p. 244, pi. 18, figs. 5, 6, c? ?. Habitat. 

 West Java. — Gynitia Tanagra (Felderia Tanagra, Staudinger, Iris, 1889, p. 76. 

 Habitat. Palawan. 



Genus KIRONTISA. 



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

 arched, apex slightly produced and obtuse, exterior margin slightly concave in 

 the middle, even, posterior margin almost straight ; costal vein free in both 

 sexes ; first subcostal branch emitted at one-half before end of cell, second at one- 

 fifth; cell open. Hindwing broadly conical; anterior margin well arched, exterior 

 margin convex, even, anal angle pointed ; second subcostal branch and radial emitted 

 at equal distance from the costal ; cell open ; precostal excurved. Body very 

 robust ; palpi not reaching to vertex, apex short, stout, conical. Eyes naked. 

 Antennal club short, slender. Sexes dissimilar. 



Type. — K. Telchinia. 



KIRONTISA TELCHINIA (Plate 227, figs. 1, la, b, c, <? ? ). 



Adolias Telchinia, Menetries, Catal. Mus. Petr. Lep. ii. p. 120, pi. 9, fig. 5, S (1857). Moore, Tr. 



Ent. Soc. 1859, p. 77. Butler, P. Z. S. 1868, p. 608. 

 EutJialia Telchinia, de Niceville, Butt, of India, etc., ii. p. 206 (1886). 

 Adolias Aphidas, Hewitson, Exot. Butt. iii. Ad. pi. 2, figs. 8, 9 (1862), ? . 



Imago. — Male. Upperside dark purpurescent umber-brown. Cilia white. Both 

 wings with a marginal blue band having a more or less genescent lustre, which 

 commences narrowly on the lower half of the forewing and widens on the hindwing 

 to the anal angle. Foreiving also with obscurely-defined black-lined cell and basal 

 marks, their interspaces being paler brown ; a triangular pale brown costal space 

 also before the apex. Hindwing also with obscurely-defined black-lined cell marks 

 with paler brown interspaces. Underside paler umber-brown ; basal black-lined 

 marks not prominent ; both wings crossed by a discal and a submarginal sinuous 

 diffused blackish fascia. Body, palpi, and antennae above dark brown, beneath 

 pale brown. 



Female. Upperside pale umber-brown; cell and basal marks obscurely defined ; 

 crossed by a continuous oblique discal darker brown fascia, which commences at 

 the apex of forewing and widens posteriorly to the middle of the abdominal margin ; 

 hindwing also with a narrow dark brown submarginal lunular fascia. Forewing 



