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joined ou its lower side to a larger su I (-quadrate spot in the first median interspace 

 witli a small spot at the base of the second median interspace wedged in between their 

 outer sides. IHndmng unmarked. Cilia of both wings blackish-brown. Underside 

 slightly paler than the upperside, the hinder marginal space of the forewing pale 

 brown ; the spots as al)ove. Antennae black, the club whitish on the underside ; palpi, 

 head and body black ; the palpi beneath spotted with white scaling, pectus and thorax 

 with white hairs, abdomen with white patches down its middle. 



Female like the male, but the white patch on the forewing is composed of sjaots 

 twice as large as those on the male, and the hinder marginal area of that wine; on the 

 underside is whitish on its outer half. 



Expanse of wings, $ ? l-j^ to l^^ inches. 



Habitat. — Burma, Malay Peninsula and Archipelago. 



Distribution. — The types from Perak are in the Indian Museum, Calcutta ; there 

 is a specimen from Singapore in the B. M. in the Hewitson Coll. ; we have both sexes 

 from N. Borneo ; de Niceville and Martin record it from Sumatra, de Xiceville from 

 Teuasserim. 



INDO-MALAYAN ALLIED SPECIES. 



(Erane mirrothyrus, Plesioneura, microthyrus, Mabille, Comptes Rendus Soc. Ent. Belg. iii. p. Ivii 

 (1.SS3). CErane microthyrus, Ehves and Edwards, Trans. Zool. Soc. 1897, p. 242. Habitat, 

 Pliilippines. 



CErane pusilla, CErane nesra pusilla, Friihstorfer, Iris, 1911, p. 28. Habitat, W. Java. 



Genus CRETEUS. 



Creteus, de Niceville, .Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. ix. 1895, p. 385. Watsou, id. p. 431. Ehves and 

 Edwards, Trans. Zool. Soc. 1897, p. 233. 



Foreioing, vein 12 ends on the costa oppo.site the end of the cell, cell less than two- 

 thirds the length of the costa, upper discocellular short, stout, outwardly obliijue, 

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

 a good deal the shorter, vein 3 from close to lower end of cell in the male, a little 

 farther inwards in the female, 2 from a little before the middle, with a streak of 

 modified scales along its middle third. Costa .slightly arched near its base, then 

 straight to the apex, which is somewhat acute, outer margin convex at its upper half, 

 then nearly straight to the hinder angle, which is somewhat rounded but well 

 pronounced, hinder margin straight, about as long as the outer margin. Ilindwiiiti, 

 vein 7 emitted well before upper end of cell, cell extending to about half the breadth 

 of the wing, discocellulars faint, vein 5 not traceable ; 3 and 2 from close to lower 

 end of cell, the base of 3 a little farther from the cell end than from the base of 

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