SATYRIN^. 237 



Mr. 0. Moller, found in April and May, and again in October, at 2-5000 feet on tha 

 Tukvar Spur. My collectors brought a single female from the interior in 1883, 

 which must, I think, have been taken at a higher elevation." (Blwes, id. p, 312.) 

 " Somewhat rare. It has been taken at Shillong in May " (de Niceville, Butt. Ind. i. 

 140). It was taken at Cherra Piinji by the late Mr. W. S. Atkinson, and by Dr. G. 

 Watt (Ann. Nat. Hist. 1885, 301) on the borders of Assam, It is not uncommon in 

 the Khasia Hills. 



The illustrations on our Plate No. 76, fig. 3, 3a, b, repi'esent the male and 

 female, the latter sex taken from a specimen kindly lent for this purpose by Mr. H. 

 J. Elwes. 



Genus NEMETIS. 



Temenii (part), Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 34 (1816). 

 Behii (part), Westwood, Gen. D. Lep. p. 358 (1851). 



Lethe (group I., part), Marshall and de Nicuville, Butt, of India, etc. i. p. 158 (1883). Ehves, Trans. 

 Ent. See. Lond. 1888, p. 308. 



Imago. — Male. Foreiving triangular ; costa much arched, apex rounded, exterior 

 margin oblique and slightly concave in the middle, posterior margin slightly convex 

 and fringed ; the basal area with numerous fine short recumbent hairs projecting 

 outwardly above the ordinary scales; costal vein swollen; submedian vein much 

 recurved ; with a Tpvoraineiit reczimbent patch of hairs overlapping a narrow glandular 

 patch of scales situated below the middle of the submedian vein. Hindioing with a 

 prominent reeumhent tuft of long hairs overlapping a glandular patch of scales between 

 the base of the middle and lower median veinlets ; cell long ; discocellulars very 

 oblique. Antennal club slender. 



Type. — N. Minerva. 



NEMETIS MINERVA (Plate 77, fig. 1, la, h,<S 2). 



Papilio Minerva, Fabricius, Syst. Ent. p. 493, ?(1775) ; Spec. Ins. p. 74 (1791) ; Mant. Ins. p. 37 



(1787); Ent. Syst. iii. p. 95 (1793). 

 Lethe Minerva, Butler, Catal. Eabrician Lep. Brit. Mus. p. 29 (1869). Marshall and de Niceville, 



Butt, of India, etc. i. p. 140 (1883). Distant, Khop. Malayana, p. 414, pi. 36, fig. 8, $ . 

 Satyrus Minerva, Godart, Enc. Meth. ix. p. 499 (1818). Westwood, Gen. D. Lep. p. 392. 

 Papilio Arcadia, Cramer, Pap. Exot. ii. pi. 116, fig. E, F (1779), ? . 

 Temenis Arcadia, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 34 (1816). 



The following is an allied Chinese form : gen. nov. Kirrodesa. Male. Forewing triangular, narrow ; 

 glandular patch absent. Hindwing ovate, exterior margin slightly scalloped ; with a tuft of hairs arising 

 within the upper base of the cell and overlapping a subcostal glandular patch of scales, and a second tuft 

 also arising within the cell and overlapping a narrow lower-discocellular glandular patch of scales. Type K. 

 Sicelis (Hewitson, Esot. Butt. Dehis, pi. i. fig. 3 (1862). Habitat. China, Japan. 



