SUASTIN^. Ho 



and body above coucolorous with the wings, collar grey ; on the underside the body 

 and legs are brown ; palpi and pectus grey, abdomen dark grey with a double row of 

 whitish dots. 



Female like the male above, the dots on the forewing generally more distinct. 

 Underside. Forewing blackish-brown, a dull red smear on the costa to the end of the 

 cell, the hinder marginal space pale ; a dot at the end of the cell and the discal dots as 

 on the upperside plainly marked. Himlwing entirely covered with minute orange- 

 coloured scales making it dull brownish-orange in colour, a discal row of black spots, 

 the middle one large with a prominent white centre, and the two lowest similar but 

 smaller, but these spots vary much in size and prominence in different examples. 



Expanse of wings, $ $ IjL to \^-^ inches. 



Habitat. — Malay Peninsula, Burma, Annam. 



Distribution. — Moore records it from Mergui, Watson from Burma, Elwes from 

 East Pegu and Pulo Laut, de Niceville from Sumatra ; it is in our collection from 

 Singapore and Annam. 



lAMBRIX SALSALA. 



Plate 791, figs. 2, (J, 2a, ? , 21j, (^ , 2c, ? , 2cl, lavva and pupa. 



Nisioniades salsala, Moore, MS. Cat. Lep. Mus. E.I.C. p. 250 (1857) ; id. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1865, p. 786. 

 Asiiclopterns salsala, de Niceville, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1885, p. 52; id. idem, 1886, p. 52. Elwes 



and de Niceville, id. p. HO. Wood-Mason and de Nicuville, id. p. 381. Distant, Rhop. 



Malayana, p. 441, pi. 34, fig. 21 (1886). Aitken, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1887, p. 43. 



Watson, id. 1888, p. 27. Elwes, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1888, p. 464. Manders, id. 1890, p. 538. 



Watson, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1890, p. 388; id. (part) Hesp. Ind. p. 147 (1891). 



Fergusson, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1891, p. 447. Watson, id p. 59. Elwes, Proc. Zool. 



Soc. 1892, p. 661. Betham, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1893, p. 429. 

 lamhrix salsala, Watson, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1S93, p. 76. Swinhoe, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1893, p. 319. 



de Niceville, Gazetteer of Sikkim, Butt. p. 179 (1894). Watson, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 



ix. 1895, p. 429 ; id. idem, x. 1896, p. 679. Davidson, Bell and Aitken, id. 1897, p. 44, pi. 8, 



fig. 9 (larva and pupa). Elwes and Edwards, Trans. Zool. Soc. 1897, p. 181. Crowley, Proc. 



Zool. Soc. 1900, p. 679. de Niceville, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1900, p. 233, ?. Aitken and 



Comber, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. xv. 1903, p. 52. Swinhoe, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1908, p. 11. 



Evans, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. xx. 1910, p. 388. Friihstorfer, Iris, 1910, p. 93. 

 Astictopterus steUi/er, Moore (nee Butler), Lep. Ceylon, i. p. 163 (1881). Swinhoe, Proc. Zool. Soc. 



1885, p. 146. Hampson, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1888, p. 365. 

 Apaustus luteipalpis, Pliitz, Stett. ent. Zeit. xlvii. p. 106 (188G), unpublished plate No. 1489. 



Imago. — Male. Upperside dark olive-brown with an orange tint. Forewing with 

 the discal spots as in /. stellifer, but usually larger and more distinct, the entire wing 

 except the apex and outer margin covered with minute orange scales, which also 

 usually cover the discal spots. Hindwing without markings, but with the lower two- 

 thirds covered with orange hairs. Cilia of both wings concolorous with the wings. 

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