10 LEPIDOPTERA INDICA. 



CELJINORRHINUS FLAVOCINCTA. 



Plate 759, figs. 1, ?, la, ?. 



Plesioneura Jlavocincta, de Niceville, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1887, p. 464, pi. 40, fig. 9, 9 ■ 



Cdwnorrliinus fiavocincta, de Niceville, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. iv. 1889, p. 181. Watson, Hesp. 



Ind. p. 133 (1891). de Niceville, Gazetteer of Sikkim, Butt. p. 177 (1894). Watson, Journ. 



Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. ix. 1895, p. 422. Elwes and Edwards, Trans. Zool. Soc. 1897, p. 115. 



Imago. — Male. Upperside, both wings black. Forewing with the base (all 

 except a round spot in the sub-median interspace just beyond the origin of 

 the first median uervule and touching it) thickly clothed with large tawny 

 scales ; a quadrate transverse spot beyond the middle of the cell, five conjoined 

 ijuadrate spots divided by the veins, the two lower ones shifted outwards, a narrow 

 linear spot in the second median interspace, a quadrate one equal in size to that in the 

 cell in the first median interspace, two much smaller ones placed obliquely (in one 

 specimen conjoined in the right-hand wing) in the sub-median interspace, all semi- 

 diaphanous pale ochreous-white. Cilia black, all except a small portion in the 

 sub-median interspace, which is yellow. Hindwing with numerous more or less 

 (juadrate large orange spots disposed over the disc ; the base of the wing clothed with 

 long fur-like orange setse. Cilia broadly orange, just marked with black at the end of 

 the veins. Underside. Forewing with the ground colour paler, the spots as above, 

 the inner margin below the sub-median nervure ochreous, the two obscure ochreous 

 diffused spots placed one above the other near the base of the wing, in the sub-median 

 interspace. Ilindiring with the colom- of the ground apparently reversed, being orange, 

 leaving a broad irregular black outer margin ; a large black spot at the end of the cell, 

 and a series of eight black spots placed one in each interspace (except the uppermost 

 and lowest interspaces which have two each) round the cell. Head black, marked with 

 whitish at the base of the antenna. Antennae with the shaft above and club entirely, 

 except the tip, creamy-white, the shaft below and tip of club black. Palpi whitish, 

 marked anteriorly with three black lines, which meet at the apex. Thorax clothed 

 above with long ferruginous setaj. Abdomen black, ringed with orange. 



Female differs only from the male in being larger. P. Jlavocincta is the largest 

 species of the genus described from India. It is most nearly allied to P. pidomaya, 

 Moore, and P. sutnitra, Moore, but difters from both in the very large size of the 

 orange spots on the hindwing on the upperside, these spots on the underside coalescing 

 and occupying the greater portion of the wing, thus reducing the ground colour of the 

 upperside to a band on the outer margin, and to nine discal spots ; in the two species 

 just mentioned there is no tendency to this feature, the orange spots being all com- 

 paratively small and well separated, and the base of the wing is black. The (.ilia in 



