136 LEPIDOPTEBA INDICA. 



Expanse of wings, ^ $ I^^q to l^% inches. 



Habitat. — Assam. 



Distribution. — The types came from the Khasia Hills, from whence we have 

 received a good many examples ; Wood-Mason and de Niceville record it from Cachar ; 

 it is allied to the Chinese species henrici, Holland ; but the coloration and markings of 

 the underside of that species is very different ; there are two examples of henrici in the 

 B. M. from Hong-Kong, taken by J. J. Walker. 



INDO-MALAYAN AND CHINESE ALLIED GENERA AND SPECIES. 



Astictopterus jama, Felder, ^Yien Ent. Mon. iv. p. 401 (1860). Distant, Rhop. Malayana, p. 401 

 (1886). Swiiihoe (part), Trans. Ent. Soc. 1908, p. 28, pi. 2, fig. 2. Synonym, Isoteinon melania, 

 Plotz, Berl. Ent. Zeit. xxLx. p. 230 (1885), unpublLshed plate No. 1522. Habitat, Malacca, 

 Perak, Sumatra. 



Astictopterug fidiijo, Mabille, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1878, p. 272. Habitat, Java, Sumatra. 



Astictopterus lienrici, Cyclopides henrici, Holland, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. 1887, p. 124, pi. 2, fig. 5. 

 Synonym, Cyclopides chinensis, Leech, Entom. xxiii. p. 48 (1890). Astictopterus olivascens. 

 Leech, Butt, of China, etc. ii. p. 629 (1893). Steropes unicolor, Mabille, Ann. Soc. Ent. Bulg. 

 XXXV. p. ixiv. (1891). Habitat, China. 



Apostictopteriis fulujinosus, Leech, I.e. p. 631. pi. 38, fig. 8, $ (1893). Habitat, W. China. 



Astictopterug pernuKjnus, Astictopterus fuligo permagnus, Friihstorfer, Iris, 1910, p. 89. Habitat, 

 Tonkin. 



Astictopterus tonhinianns, Astictopterus henrici tonkinianus, Friihstorfer, I.e. p. 90. Habitat, 

 Tonkin. 



Genus SANCUS. 



Sancus, de Niceville, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. vSoc. 1891, p. 395. Watson, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1893, 

 p. 87 ; id. Journ Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. ix. 1895, p. 424. Elwes and Edwards, Trans. Zool. Soc. 

 1897, p. 173. 



Forewing, vein 12 ends on costa before the end of the cell, 11 curves upwards 



shortly after its origin, touches 12 and then separates from it, cell about two-thirds the 



length of the costa, discocellulars erect, the middle longer than the lower, 



vein 5 from below the middle, median vein curved, making the cell 



somewhat broad, vein 3 from about one-fifth before lower end of cell, 2 



from, about the middle. Co.sta highly arched, apex sub-acute, outer 



margin convex and oblique, shorter than the hinder margin, the wing 



long for its breadth, the male with a curiou.sly impressed long oval brand, its 



Sancus upperside touching the median vein, and extending from about the middle 



of the cell to a little beyond the origin of vein 2, which it also touches. 



Hindiving, vein 7 from close before upper end of cell, discocellulars faint, vein 3 



from a little before lower end of cell, 2 from one-third before the end ; wing rounded. 



