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antennae (Fiihler), so I cannot say whether it belongs to Taractrocera or Ampittia. 

 From Moore's drawings of the female of A. maro, the type of dioscorides differs therein, 

 that the yellow costal spot in front of the middle spot of the forewing is missing and 

 therein, that both wings have a row of little yellow border spots which are more 

 distinct at the tip, but which towards the hinder angle gradually become indistinct ; " 

 and with reference to these differences, we can positively state that they are of no 

 consequence, the sub-marginal spots are nearly always more or less indicated in every 

 example of maro female, and the uppermost discal spot is more or less obsolete in many 

 examples. 



AMPITTIA MAROIDES. 



Plate 786, figs. 2, ^ , 2.a, ? , 2b, ^ . 



Ampittia maroides, de Xiceville, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. x. 1896, p. 190, pi. T, fig. 51, ,J ; 

 id. idem, x. 1897, p. 673. Elwes and Edwards, Trans. Zool. Soc. 1897, p. 186. 



Imago. — Male. Ujjperside blackish-brown, markings dark ochreous, darker than 

 in dioscorides and not so golden-yellow. Forewing with a sub-costal streak filling up 

 the space between the costa and the cell divided by the sub-costal vein from a shorter 

 streak within the outer half of the cell, the discal spots as in dioscorides, but the 

 lowest spot is well separated from those in the middle of the disc, and the spot near 

 the middle of the interno-median interspace is absent. Hindwing with the discal 

 patch of spots more compact, the spots composing the patch longer and fairly uniform 

 in size. Cilia and underside as in dioscorides, the brown spots on the hindwing darker, 

 larger and more prominent. Antenuse, palpi and body similar. 



Female like that sex of A. dioscorides. 



Expanse of wings, $ % 1 inch. 



Habitat. — Burma, Perak. 



Distribution. — The type in the Indian ^luseum, Calcutta, is from Tenasserim ; 

 we have a male from Perak, which we figure ; it corresponds to de Niceville's figure 

 and description ; we doul)t that it is anything more than a darkly marked form of 

 dioscorides ; some of our examples from Hue, Annam, are intermediate between 

 dioscorides and maroides ; there is an example in the B. M. from Tiliu Yaw, Burma, 

 taken the 28th of November, 1889, by Watson. 



CHINESE ALLIED SPECIES. 



Ampittia delai-lama, Cyclopides delai-Iama, Mabille, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1876, p. Ivi. .iEromachus 

 delai-lama, Leech, Butt, of China, etc. ii. p. 620, pi. 40, fig. 16, ^ (1893). Ampittia delai-Iama, 

 Elwes and Edwards, Trans. Zool. Soc. 1897, p. 186. Habitat, W. China, E. Thibet. 



Ampittia virgata, PamphUa virgata, Leech, Entom. xxiii. p. -17 (1890). Padraona virgata, Leech, Butt. 



