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Genus EOOXYLIDES. 



Eooxylides, de Niceville, Butt, of India, iii. p. 432 (1890). 



Eyes naked. Foreicing, vein 12 ends on costa opposite the upper end of the cell, 

 11 well separated from 12, emitted from about the middle of the cell, 10 from nearer 

 the end of the cell than from the base of 11, discocellulars straight, upright, the lower 

 the longer, vein 6 emitted a little below the upper end of the cell, 5 from about the 

 middle, 3 from some little distance before the lower end ; sub-median vein sinuous. 

 Costa much arched, slightly indented at its base, apex somewhat acute in the male, 

 rounded in the female, outer margin nearly straight in the male, convex in the female, 

 hinder margin straight ; in the male there is a glandular patch of modified scales in 

 the middle of the disc, occupying the bases of the median interspaces, and extending 

 slightly into the cell, with a conspicuous round patch of densely packed scales in the 

 fii'st median interspace. Hindwing, vein 8 arched at its base, then straight to the 

 apex, 7 gently arched at its base, discocellulars in an almost straight line, slightly 

 outwardly oblique, the lower a little the longer, vein 3 emitted from the lower end of 

 the cell, sub-median vein straight, internal vein rather long and sinuous, three tails all 

 highly ciliated, the two outer ones very short, the middle tail about half an inch in 

 length, the veins running up all the tails for about half their length. Costa much 

 arched at base, then straight to apex, outer margin increasingly sinuous, abdominal 

 margin deeply excavated above the aual lobe. Antennse short, gradually clavate ; body 

 short, rather robust ; the first joint of the tarsi greatly enlarged, the others tapering. 



Type, Oxylides tharis, Hiibner. 



EOOXYLIDES THARIS. 



Plate 740, figs. 3, <? , 3a, $ , 3b, $ . 



Oxylides tharis, Hiibner, Zutr. Ex. Schmett. figs. 883, 884 (1837). 



Myrina tliaris, Horsfield and Moore, Cat. Lep. Mus. E.I.C. i. p. 47 (18,')7). Hewitson, 111. Diurn. 



Lep. p. 31 (1863). 

 Sitlmn tharis, Kheil, Rhop. Nias, p. 32 (1884). Snellen, Tijd. voor Ent. xxxiii. p. 299 (1890). 

 Eypolycsena tharis, Distant, Rhop. Malayana, p. 257, pi. 20, fig. 19, ? (1885). 

 Eooxylides tharis, de NiceviUe, Butt, of India, iii. p. 433, pi. 29, fig. 231, <J (1890). Elwes, Proc. 



Zool. Soc. 1892, p. 641. H. H. Druce, Proc. Zool. Soo. 1895, p. 618. 

 Myrina pharis, Doubleday and Hewitson, Gen. Diurn. Lep. ii. p. 476, pi. 74, fig. 3, 9 (1852). 



Imago. — Male. Upperside brownish-black, nearly pure black. Forewing with the 

 sexual mark, a glandular patch of modified black scales in the middle of the wing, very 

 conspicuous ; on the middle of the hinder margin there are in most examples a number 

 of metallic green scales. Cilia black. Hindwing with the anal third white crossed by 



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