NYMPHALIN^. (Group ARGTNNINA.) 187 



MoJe, Moore, Catal. Lep. Miis. E. T. Company, i. vp. 154 (1857). Hahitaf. Sumatra ; 

 Java; Borneo. — Gethosia Gahina, ^Yeymer, Putb. Naclir. 1883, p. 191. Kheil, Rhop. 

 Nias, p. 20, pi. 2, fig. 6, c?, pi. 5, fig. 26, ? (1884). Habitat. Nias Island.— 

 Gethosia Mindanensh, Felder, Wien. But. Monats. vii. p. 106, c? ? (1863). Semper, 

 Reisen Phil. Lep. p. 100, pi. 18, fig. 4, 5, c? ? (1888). Habitat. Mindanao.— 

 Gethosia Luzonica, Felder, Wien. Ent. Mon. vii. p. 107 (1863). Semper, I.e. p. 101, 

 pi. 18, fig. 6, 7, 8, c? ? (1888). Habitat. Luzon. — Gethosia Magindanica, Semper, 

 Reisen Phil. Lep. p. 102 (18S8). Habitat. Mindanao. — Gethosia Pariana, Semper, 

 I.e. p. 101 (1888). Habitat. Philippines.- Ct//io>/rt. Boholica, Semper, I.e. p. 101, 

 pi. 18, fig. 9, (? (1888). Habitat. Bobol, Philippines. — Gethosia Leschenaidtii, 

 Godart, Enc. Meth. ix. Suppl. p. 816 (1823). Lucas, Lep. Exot. pi. 54, fig. 3 (1835). 

 Habitat. Java. 



Genus CYNTHIA. 



Cynthia, Fabricius, Illiger's Mag. iv. p. 281 (1807). Doubleday, Gen. Diurnal Lep. i. p. 212 (1849). 

 Moore, Lep. of Ceylon, i. p. 52 (18S1). Distant, Rhop. Malay, p. 183 (1882). de Niccville, 

 Butt, of India, li. p. 40 (1886). Semper, Reis. Phil. Lep. p. 104 (1888). 



Anartia (part), Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 33 (1816). 



Imagk. — Wings large, broad. Male. Forewing triangular ; costa much curved 

 towards the end, apex rounded and somewhat falcated ; exterior margin oblique, 

 concave in the middle, slightly sinuous ; posterior margin short and recurved ; 

 costal vein extending to two-thirds the margin ; first subcostal branch emitted 

 immediately before end of the cell, second branch at a very short distance beyond its 

 end, third branch at one-half beyond the cell, fourth and fifth from close to base of 

 the third ; cell long, narrow, its upper end extending to half the wing ; upper 

 discocellular extremely short, bent outward; middle discocellular bent inward, 

 curved ; lower discocellular long, curving very obliquely outward ; radials from their 

 angles ; middle median branch emitted before lower end of the cell ; upper median 

 much arched ; lower median emitted at one-half of lower length of the cell ; sub- 

 median much recurved. Hindwing short, very broad, somewhat quadrate ; exterior 

 margin scalloped, angled and produced to a point at end of upper median branch ; 

 costal vein much arched, extending to the apex ; precostal vein bifid ; first subcostal 

 emitted at half length of upper part of the cell, the radial curving from below second 

 subcostal ; cell open, narrow ; two upper median branches emitted at more than half 

 distance beyond upper end of cell ; submedian vein slightly recurved ; internal vein 

 short, recurved. Body stout ; abdomen short ; palpi ascending, densely clothed, set 

 in front and sides with long setfe, second joint long, extending to the level of vertex, 

 third joint short, pointed ; forelegs of male slender, rather long, scaly above, finely 

 hairy beneath, tarsus thickly hairy ; forelegs of female very slender, smoothly scaled, 



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