NTMPHALB^^. (Gronp XYilFBALiyA.) 123 



Java ; Sumatra ; Borneo ; Malay Peninsula. — Sifmbrenthia dissoluta, Staudinger, 

 Iris, 1889, p. 49. Habitat. Palawan. — Symirenthia Ottilia, Fruhst. Berl. Eut. Zeit. 

 1897, p. 327. Syn. Sym. Hypselis, Weyraer, Stett. Ent. Zeit. 1885, p. 264. Habitat. 

 Nias, ? Sumatra.- — Symbrenthia Hypselis (Vanessa Hypselis, Godart, Enc. Meth. ix. 

 Suppl. p. 818 (1823). Laog. Hypselis, Boisd. Spec. Gen. Lep. i. pi. x. 6g. 3, 6 

 (1836). Sym. Hypselis, de JSiiceville, Journ. Bombay N. H. S. 1891, p. 356, pi. F, 

 fig. 8, <?. Habitat. Java. — Symbrenthia Sinica. Male. Upperside with tlie fulvous 

 bands similar to those in Sikkim Avet-season form of Cotanda, except that on the 

 forewing the subapical band is longer, narrower, and its lower part longer. Under- 

 side with broader and more compactly-disposed black tesselate markings than in 

 Cotanda, the metallic-blue conical spots on hindwing only about half their size, and 

 the three marginal lower blue lunules very narrow. Female. Upperside with 

 somewhat paler bands than in male, all wider. Underside as in the male. Expanse, 

 <f 2, ? 2^0 inches. Habitat. W. China (Coll. Leech). 



Genus PROTHOfi. 



Prothoe, 'KnhneT, Sa.mml. Exot. Schmett. ii. fig. 54 (1823-26). Doubleday and Westwood, Gen. D . 

 Lep. ii. p. 266 (1850). Wallace, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1869, p. 80. Distant, Rhop. Malay, p. 110 

 (1883). Semper, Reisen Phil. Lep. p. 77 (1886). de Niceville, Butt, of India, etc., ii. p. 293 

 (1886). Staudinger and Schatz, Exot. Schmett. ii. p. 177 (1888). 



Imago. — Male. Wings large. Foreioing triangular ; costa slightly arched, apex 

 obtuse; exterior margin slightly oblique, nearly straight and also even, posterior 

 angle rounded ; posterior margin almost straight ; costal vein strong, extending to 

 half the margin; cell extending to two-fifths at its upper end from the base; first 

 subcostal branch emitted at one-fourth before end of cell and curved upward towards 

 end of the costal vein, but entirely free from it ; second subcostal branch at half- 

 way between it and end of cell ; third subcostal at one-sixth beyond the cell and 

 extending to the apex ; fourth and fifth branch at two-sixths beyond the cell, the 

 fourth branch deflexed before reaching the end below the apex ; upper discocellular 

 extremely short, almost obsolete ; middle discocellular oblique, rather short and 

 slightly convex ; the bwer discocellular long, its upper end deeply concave, the lower 

 end extending obliquely outward ; middle median veinlet at one-sixth before lower 

 end of cell, lower median at one-half before the end ; submedian vein nearly straight. 

 Hindwing somewhat triangularly oval ; anterior margin long, gently curved from near 

 the base, apex oblique ; exterior margin convexly-oblique from end of upper subcostal, 

 slightly waved, produced between the upper and middle median into a short broad out- 

 wardly-curved tail, from thence to anal angle broadly scalloped ; a prominent tuft of 

 long fine silky hairs extending hindward from basal interspace between the submediaa 



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