MATAPINM 177 



ISMA PROTOCLEA. 

 Plate 798, figs. 3, (J , 3a, $ , 3b, <? . 



Goniloha protoclea, Herrich Schaffer, Prodromus, 1869, p. 195, No. 44. Plotz, unpublished plate, 



No. 554. 

 Isma protoclea, Swinhoe, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1908, p. 14. Friihstorfer, Iris, 1910, p. 99. 

 Jsoteinon iajris, de Niceville, Jouru. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1890, p. 213, pi. E, fig. 9, ^. Watson, 



Hasp. Ind. p. 86 (1891). 

 Lophoides lapis, Watson, Proe. Zool. Soc. 1893, p. 84 ; id. Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. ix. 1895, p. 429. 



Elwes and Edwards, Trans. Zool. Soc. 1897, p. 196, pi. 24, fig. 44, 44a (genitalia). 



Imago. — Male. Upperside dark shining brown, darkest on the outer margin.s ; 

 .^pots yellowish-white, nearly pure white. Forewing with two spots in the cell towards 

 its end, the lower linear, the upper round and small, three discal spots placed in an 

 inwardly oblique, almost straight line, a large one before the middle of the first 

 median interspace, varying in shape in different examples, generally sub-quadrate, this 

 spot is close below the cell spots ; the next spot is near the base of the second 

 median interspace, much smaller and round, the upper one is on vein 5, is quite 

 minute and sometimes absent, two sub-apical dots, above the last-mentioned dot, 

 divided by vein 7, the upper one sometimes absent. lUndwing unmarked, the 

 abdominal margin and the anal angle fringed with long hairs, the anal fringe being 

 conspicuously produced. Underside paler, sparsely covered with minute yellowish- 

 white scales. Forewing with the hinder margin broadly yellowish-white ; a tuft of 

 long black hairs attached to the margin. Hindwing, a dark spot at the end of the 

 cell, and four or five discal .spots, all very obscure. Anteunse black, the club all but 

 its tip yellowish-white on the underside ; palpi, head, body and legs brown ; palpi 

 and abdomen beneath pale grey. Cilia of forewing brown, of hindwing cinereous. 



Female like the male, but without the fringe of hairs at the anal angle and 

 without the tuft of lone; black hairs attached to the hinder marsin of the forewing on 

 the underside. 



Expanse of wings, ,? ? 1^^ to 1^ inches. 



H.A.BITAT. — Burma, Mergui, Malay Peninsula, Sumatra. 



Distribution. — The type came from the Malay Peninsula, the type of /(//)/.* from 

 Johore in the Malay Peninsula ; de Niceville also records it from Mergui, Friihstorfer 

 from Java and Pulo Laut, Watson from Burma ; we have a male from the Dounat 

 Range ; there is a female in the Hancock Museum, Newcastle, from Burma, taken by 

 Adamson, and both sexes from Sumatra in the B. M. 



INDO-MALAYAN ALLIED SPECIES. 



Isma obscura. Distant, Rhop. Malayana, p. 386, pi. 35, fig. 19 (1886). Habitat, Singapore. 

 Isma vulso, Pamphila vulso, Mabille, Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg. xxxvii. p. 55 (1893). Lophoides vulso, 

 Elwes and Edwards, Trans. Zool. Soc. 1897, p. 196. Habitat Java Sumatra, Bali. 

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