no LEPIDOPTERA INDICA. 



Corea, Japan. — Araschnia Doris, Leech, I.e. i. p. 272, pi. 26, fig. 4, 5, c? ? (1892). 

 Habitat. AV. and C. China. — Araschnia Fallax, Janson, Cist. Ent. ii. p. 271, pi. 5, 

 fig. 3 (1878). Pryer, Rhop. Niphon, p. 2-i, pi. 5, fig. 12, 9. Habitat. Japan.— 

 Araschnia Davidis, Poujade, Bull. Soc. Eat. Fr. 1885, p. 114. Oberthiir, Et. Ent. 

 1890, p. 38, pi. 9, fig. 102 (1890). Leech, I.e. p. 274. Habitat. Moupin, W. 

 China. — Araschnia Oreas, Leech, I.e. i. p. 275, pi. 26, fig. 6, <S (1892). Habitat. 

 W. China. 



Genus SYMBRENTHIA. 



Symhrenthia, llubner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 43 (1816). de Nioeville, Butt. India, etc., ii. p. 238 

 (1886). Distant, Ehop. Malay, p. 431 (1886). Staudinger and ScLatz, Exot. Schmett. ii. p. 123 

 (1887). 



Laogona, Boisduval, Spec. Gen. Lep. i. pi. 10, fig. 3 (1836). DouLleday and Hewits. Gen. D. Lep. i. 

 p. 190 (1848). 



Imago. — Male. Wings short. Forewing triangular ; costa slightly arched ; 

 apex obtuse, exterior margin slightly oblique and uneven, posterior margin slightly 

 recurved ; costal vein rather stout, extending to beyond middle of the margin ; first 

 subcostal branch emitted at one-third before end of the cell, second branch at one- 

 ninth before the end, third at fully one-third beyond the cell, fourth and fifth at 

 two-thirds ; upper discocellular short and outwardly-oblique, middle concave, lower 

 rather slender and outwardly-oblique ; middle median veinlet at considerable distance 

 from lower end of cell, lower median at fully half from the end ; submedian vein 

 straight. Hindiving triangular; costa prominently arched at the shoulder, apex 

 obtusely rounded ; exterior margin oblique, slightly sinuous and with a projecting 

 prominent angle at end of upper median, anal angle pointed ; precostal vein bifid, 

 radial emitted close to base of subcostal branch; cell open. Body stout; palpi 

 ascending, jDrojecting half beyond the front, clothed with rather closely-appressed 

 long scales, second joint more hairy above ; forelegs in male — femur scaly, tibia and 

 tarsus laxly clothed with long fine silky-hairs which are longest on the tarsi ; 

 femur longer than tibia, the tibia and tarsus of equal length; forelegs in female — 

 femur, tibia and tarsus very slender, scaly, very sparsely fringed on their outer side 

 with a few very fine longish hairs ; tibia and tarsus of equal length, tarsus four- 

 jointed, second, third, and fourth joint armed beneath with a few minute spines and 

 two stronger spines at the apex ; antennae with a short obtuse club ; eyes hairy. 



Larva. — Body cylindrical ; head flattened in front, vertex broad and sharply 

 depressed in the middle, minutely hairy, cheeks slightly tuberculous ; third to last 

 segment armed with a dorsal and four lateral rows of rigid branched-spines on each 

 side. 



