90 LEPIBOPTERA INDICA. 



S.E. China and [Mai, ay Species. — Ahisara Echerius — Wet-season form, — (Pap. 

 Ecberius, Stoll, Cram. Vn\^. v. pi. "1, figs. 1, la, b, c (1700). Butler, Catal. Fabr. 

 Lep. B. M. p. 137 (Is'GQ). "Walker, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1895, p. 4-59. Sijn. Pap. Odin, 

 Fabr. Ent. Syst. iii. p. 56 (1793). Pap. Coriolanus, Fabr. id. p. 284. Lj^c. Xenoclice, 

 Hiibn. Yerz. bek. Sclimett. p. 23 (1816). — Dry-season form, — (Sospita Lydda, 

 Hewitson, Exot. Butt. iii. .?o.s\ pi. fig. 13, ? (18()G). Sospita saturata, Moore, Proc. 

 Zool. Soc. 1878, p. 701, 6 ?. Hahitat. S.E.China; Macao, Hong Kong. A male 

 of the w-ei-season form, from Macao, and a male from Hong Kong agreeing with 

 StoU's figures, and males and females of the tf7-?/-season form, also from Hong KoBg, 

 are in the British Museum. — Abisara Paloivanica, Staudinger, Deuts. Ent. Zeit. 1889, 

 p. 90. Habitat. Palawan. — Abimra Kausamhioides, de Niceville, Journ. As. Soc. 

 Beng. 1895, p. 442, c?. Sijn. A. Kausambi, Distant, Rhop. Malay, pi. 18, fig. 10, <S. 

 Habitat. Malay Peninsula ; Sumatra ; Xias ; Borneo. 



Gknus Polyc^na, Staudinger, Stett. Ent. Zeit. 1886, p. 227; id. Exot. Sclncett. 

 p. 233 (1892). Leech, Butt, of China, i. p. 293 {\89S).—Pohjcsena prince2^s 

 (Emesis princeps, Oberthiir, Etud. Entom. xi. p. 22, pi. 7, fig. 57 (1886). Leech, 

 l.r. p. 293. Habitat. W. China.— Pol ycxna Lama, Leech, I.e. p. 294, pi. 28, fig. 

 13, J, 15, $ (1893). Hahitat. E. Tibet ; W. China.— Poli/CcSna matuta, Leech, I.e. 

 p. 294, pi. 28, fig. 16, c? (1893). Habitat. W. China. 



Genus TAXILA. 



Taxila, Donblcday, List Lep. Brit. Mus. pt. 2, p. 2 (ISiT). Westwood, Gen. D. L-p. ii. p. 421 

 (1851^. Hewitson, Exot. Batt. ii. p. 91 (1861). Bate.=, Journ. Ltnn. Soc. Lond. ix. p. 414 

 (1867). lie jS'iceville, Butt, of India, etc., ii. p. .316 (1SS6). Staudinger and Schiitz, Exot. 

 Sclimett. ii. p. 232 (ls92). 



Ahisara (pait), Distant, Rhop. Malajana, p. 1S8 (18^3). 



Imago. — Male. Foreicing subtriangular ; costa much arched, apex pointed, 

 exterior margin very slightly oblique, even, posterior angle rounded ; costal vein 

 extending to middle of the margin ; first and second subcostal branches emitted 

 before end of the cell, both short, third at one-third beyond the cell, fourth at half 

 beyond and ending at the apex, fifth ending below the apex ; cell rather short, very 

 broad ; upper discocellular obsolete, two lower concave, long ; upper radial in a line 

 with the subcostal, lower radial from slight angle in middle of discocellulars ; middle 

 median branch emitted at some distance before lower end of the cell ; submedian 

 recurved. Hindiciug short, broadly ovate ; costal margin abruptly lobed at the base, 

 thence straight, apex rounded, exterior margin and anal angle very convex and very 

 slightly uneven, but scalloped and slightly angular at end of upper median vein in 

 the female ; precostal vein short, pointed, emitted from angle of the costal ; the 

 costal vein bent outward at some distance above its base, and then extendins: to 



