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Feiujile has three deep yellow spots on the forewing, and closely resembles 

 Erionota thrax ; on the underside it is similar to its male. 



Expanse of wings, c? $ 2 to 2\ inches. 



Larva pale purplish-grey, with indistinct darker transverse dorsal lines ; head 

 black-spotted; i&cAn on Palmacese ; pale olivaceous-yellow. (Moore.) 



Habitat. — Sikkim, Burma, Malay Peninsula and Archipelago. 



Distribution. — The type is from Borneo, the type of suhfasciata from Ceylon, 

 the type of glandulosa from Singapore, Wood-Mason and de Niceville record the variety 

 andamana from the Andaman Islands, de Niceville and Martin record lebadea from 

 Sumatra, Watson records it from Beeling in Burma, Elwes from Perak, Pulo Laut, Java 

 and Sikkim. We have a male from Melang ; our figures of the larva and pupa are 

 from Sir W. H. Gregory's original drawings of the larva and pupa of suhfasciata, bred 

 in Ceylon. 



INDO-MALAYAN AND CHINESE ALLIED SPECIES. 



PaduJca alexandra, Erionota alexandra, Semper, Rhop. Philipp. p. 312 (1892). Habitat, 



Philippines. 

 Pailukn loraiJJa, Friihstorfer, Iris, 1911, p. 9. Habitat, E. Celebes. 



Genus PUDICITIA. 



Puilicitia, de Niceville, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. ix. 189.5, pp. 379 and 427. Elwes and Edwards, 

 Trans. Zool. Soc. 1897, p. 216. 



Forewing, vein 12 ends on costa before the end of the cell ; cell long, but less 

 than two-thirds the length of the costa ; upper discocellular short, stout, outwardly 

 oblique, middle and lower discocellulars in a strongly inwardly oblique straight line, 

 the lower tlie shorter ; vein 3 emitted some distance before the lower end of the cell, 

 2 from before the middle ; sub-median vein straight, with a narrow band of modified 

 scales, placed anteriorly against its basal second and third fifths ; costa slightly and 

 evenly arched, apex somewhat acute, outer margin convex below the apex, then nearly 

 straight to the hinder angle, which is rounded, hinder margin straight, a good deal 

 longer than the outer margin. Hindioing, vein 8 well curved, ends at the apex of the 

 wing, 7 from well before the upper end of the cell, cell about half the breadth of the 

 wing, discocellulars faint, vein 5 not traceable, 3 from close to the lower end of the cell, 

 2 from beyond the middle ; sub-median and internal veins nearly straight ; costa 

 highly arched at its base, apex rounded, outer margin convex, slightly emarginate at 

 the end of vein 2, abdominal mai'giu rounded. Antennse about half the length of the 

 costa of forewing, with a well formed club, acuminate and bent over ; palpi densely 

 scaled, the second joint pressed closely against the face, the third joint hidden by the 

 hairs of the second ; hind tibipe with two pairs of spurs. 



Type, Parnara pholus, de Niceville. 



