NYMPH A LIN. 'E. (Group j7;gi'.v-v/x(.) 241 



Genus BRENTHIS. 



Brenilds, Hiibner, Yerz. l.ek. Sdimett. p. 30 (1816). Scudder, Sy.st. Rev. Amer. Butt. p. 24 (1872). 

 ScLutz, Exot. .Schraett. ii. p. 119 (18S7). Kirby, Allen's Nat. Libr. Butt. i. p. C4 (1894). 



I^tAGO. — Male. Foreirinr/ subtriangiilar ; first and second subcostal branches 

 emitted before end of tlie cell; basal area slightl_r hairy. Hindivinrj broad ; exterior 

 margin very convex, sligbth' scalloped, apex and aual angle rounded ; basal area 

 very slightly hairy above, scaly beneath. Buihj finely hairy ; palpi sparsely clothed 

 with fine setose hairs, apical joint ecaly, free ; autennte gradually thickened to 

 a pyriform club. 



Type.— B. Hecate, Schiff. 



No species of this genus has yet been recorded as occurring -within the Indian 

 area. 



Japan Species. — Brentlns fumida (Argynnis Daphne, car. fumida, Butler, Ann. 

 Nat. Hist. 1882, p. 16. Leech, Butt, of Cliiua and Japan, i. p. 229). Habitat. 

 Japan; Corea. — Breatliis Eal'dia (Argynnis Rabdia, Butler, Ann. Xat. Hist. 1877, 

 p. 93. Leech, Ir. p. 229. Habitat. Japan ; Corea. 



Genus RATHORA, 



Argynnis (part), Auctorum. 



Issoria* (part), Hubner, Yerz. bek. Schmett. p. 31 (1816). 



Imago. — Male. Foreirinij triangular; apex abruptly rounded, exterior margin 

 oblique and slightly concave in middle, slightly uneven ; discocellulars slightly con- 

 cave ; first and second subcostal branches emitted before end of the cell. Hindwing 

 short, very broad, scutiform ; base of costa abruptly lobed, thence straight to end, 

 the apex being pointed, exterior margin convex, uneven ; anal angle somewhat 

 produced and pointed. Body hairy ; palpi densely hairy to the tip ; anteunaj rather 

 long, the club short and broadly spatular. 



Type. — R. Lathonia, Linn. 



EATHORA ISSiEA (Plate 375, fig. 1, la, \ S ? )• 



Anjynnis Isstva, Doubleday, Gray's Lep. Ins. Neral, p. 11 (1846) ; id. Gen, D. Lep. p. 174 (1848). 



Moore, Catal. Lep. Mus. E. I. Company, i. p. 1.^6 (1857) ; Proc.Zool. Soc. Lend. 1865, p. 495. 



Butler, Proc. Zool. Soo. 1886, p. 362. Doherty, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1886, p. 121. 

 Argynnis Lathonia, Kollar, Hiigel's Kasclimir, iv. pt. 2, p. 440 (1844). ELwes, Proc. Zool. Soc. 



* Egista became the type of HCibner's genus Issoria, in 1832 (see Zutr. Esot. Schmett. iv. p. 32). 

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