154 LEPWOPTERA INDICA. 



setose clothing of the base is more thickly developed and of a dark brown colour ; 

 the hairy clothing of thorax and base of abdomen being also dark brown. 

 Underside. Ground-colour somewhat darker than in Darlisa. Markings as on 

 upperside, those of the forewing deeper bluish-white, those on the hindwing sullied 

 ochreous-white. 



Expanse, S 5 inches. 



Habitat.' — Upper and Middle Tenasserim. 



DisTKiBUTiON. — The type was taken by Capt. C. T. Bingham in the Thoungyeen 

 forest, Upper Tenasserim. " Mr, T. A. Hauxwell obtained a male in the Daunat 

 Range and another in the Thoungyeen Valley, both in April. I have a single male 

 taken in the Yunzahn Valley, Middle Tenasserim, in April " (de Niceville, J. 

 Bombay N. H. S. 1899). 



Chinese Species. — Penthema Michallati, Janet, Bull. Soc. Ent. France, 1894, 

 p. 225. Habitat. Tonkin. — Penthema Gallorum, Oberthur, Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. 

 1897, p. 176, fig. 2. Habitat. Tonkin. — Penthema formosana (Isodema formosana, 

 Rothschild, Nov. Zool. v. p. 603, figure (1898). Habitat. China. 



Genus DOLESCHALLIA. 



Bolescliallia, Felder, Neues Lep. p. 14 (1861). Moore, Lep. Ceylon, i. p. 38 (1881). Distant, Rhop. 

 Malay, p. 87 (1883). de Niceville, Butt, of India, etc., ii. p. 267 (1886). Staudinger and Schiitz, 

 Exot. Schmett. ii. p. 129 (1887). 



Imago. — Male. Wings short, broad. Foreiving triangular ; costa very convex, 

 its base slightly excavated, apex pointed ; exterior margin slightly sinuated, 

 broadly and obtusely angulated outward below the apex, the middle concave and 

 posterior angle rounded ; posterior margin slightly I'ecurved ; costal vein extending 

 to two-thirds the margin ; first subcostal branch emitted at one-fifth before end of 

 the cell, second branch at a short distance before the end, third at fully one-third 

 beyond and ending at the apex ; upper discocellular very short, middle discocellular 

 rather short and concave ; cell open, very broad ; median veinlets widely separated, 

 upper much arched from the base ; submedian vein nearly straight. Hindwing 

 triangular ; base of anterior margin broadly lobate, apes obtuse ; exterior margin 

 obliquely convex, slightly sinuated and produced hindward at end of submedian 

 into an elongated tail ; abdominal margin convex basally and concavely divergent 

 to anal angle ; precostal vein bent outward towards the end ; costal vein much 

 arched and extending to apex ; radial emitted at some distance from base of sub- 

 costal branch ; cell open ; lower median emitted fi'om opposite base of radial ; base 

 of wing thickly clothed with longish hairs, which, along the submedian and lower 



