140 LEPIDOPTERA IXDICA. 



KORUTHAIALOS XANITES. 

 Plate 790, figs. 1, (^, la, ? , Ih, ?. 



Astidoplerus xanites, Butler, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1870, p. 510. Druce, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1873, p. 359. 



Butler, Trans. Linn. Soc. Zool. Lond. 1877, p. 555, pi. G'J, fig. 7. Elwes and de Niceville, 



Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1886, p. 440. Watson, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1888, p. 28. 



Watson (part), Hesp. Iml. p. 145 (1891). 

 Koruthaialos xanitvs, Watson, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1893, p. 77; id. Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. ix. 1895, 



p. 429. de Niceville and Martin, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1895, p. 534. Elwes and Edwards, 



Trans. Zool. Soc. 1897, p. 175. 

 Astlctopterus xaniies, var. palawites, Staudinger, Iris, 1889, p. 148. 

 Kerana gemvii/er, Semper (nee Butler), Ehop. Philipp. p. 318 (1892). Distant, Rhop. Malayana, 



p. 403, pi. 34, fig. 29 (1886). 

 Koruthaialos xanifes luzonlcus, Friihstorfer, Iris, 1910, p. 91. 

 Koruthaialos xanites namata, Friihstorfer, I.e. 

 Koruthaiuhs xanites gojiaka, Friihstorfer, I.e. 



Imago. — Male. Uppersicle dark, bright, chocolate-brown. Foreiclng with a 

 liroail, bright orange discal band from the middle of the costa to the hinder angle, not 

 i|uite reaching either ; the band is more or le.ss rounded at each end, its inner margin 

 slightly sinuous, its outer margin well outwardly curved below its middle. Ilindwing 

 without markings, a few minute red scales on the outer margin. Cilia of both wings 

 <lark Ijniwn. Underside slightly paler and duller in colour than the upperside, the 

 Imnd similar. Antennpe blackish-brown with some very minute pale dots on its under- 

 side ; palpi, head and body above and below, and the legs concolorous with the wings. 



Female like the male, the band on the upper side of the forewing somewhat 

 broader ; this band on the underside in this sex becomes pale hiudwards and expands 

 on the hinder maroin for about half its outer length. 



Expanse of wings, J $ ly^g- to ly-g- inches. 



Habitat. — Burma, Malay Peninsula and Archipelago. 



Distribution. — AVe have it from the Ataran Valley, it is in the B. M. from the 

 Karen Hills, Druce records it from Borneo, AVatson from Alalacca and Burma, Elwes 

 and de Xiceville from Tavoy, Semper from the Philippines, and Elwes from Perak and 

 Bali. The orange band of the forewing is very variable in size, hardly any two 

 specimens are exactly similar. We very much doubt that the following form, rubecula, 

 Plotz = hector, Watson, can be separated from it. 



KORUTHAIALOS RUBECULA. 



Plate 790, figs. 2, i , 2a, $ , 21), ^ . 



Lychnuclms ruhecula, Plotz, Berl. ent. Zeit. xxvi. p. 264 (1882), unpublished plate No. 1348. 

 Koruthaialos rubecula, Swinhoe, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1908, p. 11. Fruhstorfer, Iris, 1910, p. 92. 



