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closing the cell, a discal band of brown spots very irregular and disjointed, the terminal 

 markings as on the forewing. 



Female like the male, but the forewing has generally a large white patch in the 

 disc, which often extends hindwards to near the hinder margin. Cilia white, brownish 

 towards apex of forewing in both sexes. 



Expanse of wings, <? ? 1 inch. 



Dry-season Brood (Figs. Ic, $, Id, $). 



Male and female like the Wet-season brood, but the medial patch is white, 

 generally runs down from vein 4 to the hinder margin, broadening hindwards, and 

 sometimes is continued a little on the hindwing ; in the female this patch is much 

 broader than in the male, and is nearly always continued on the hindwing till it meets 

 the cell ; the underside is also similar, but all the markings are larger and coarser. 

 Antennae, head, thorax and abdomen dark brown, beneath the antennse are ringed 

 with white, the palpi, thorax and abdomen pure white, the third joint of the palpi 

 brown. 



Expanse of wings, ^ $ 1 inch. 



Larva. — Light green, vermiform, middle segments swollen. 



Pdpa. — Thick, blunt at the ends. Feeds on Sapindacse (Moore). 



Habitat. — India, Andamans, Ceylon and the Malay Peninsula. 



Distribution. — Recorded by Hampson from the Nilgiris, by Watson from the 

 Chin Hills, by Elwes from the Naga and Karen Hills, by Mackinnon from Mussoorie, 

 by Davidson from Karwar; in our collection from the Nicobars, Sikkim, the Khasia 

 Hills and Ceylon, some of the Ceylon examples of the Wet-season brood are very 

 small, one of them measures only six-tenths of an inch ; it is in the B. M. also from 

 Ganjam, Belgaum, Poona, Andamans, Java, Sumatra and Borneo. 



Genus NEOPITHECOPS. 



Neopithecops, Distant, Rhop. Malayana, p. 209 (1884). de Niceville, Butt, of India, iii. p. 51 (1890). 



Bingham, Fauna of Brit. India, Butt. ii. p. 309 (1907). 

 Piihecops, Moore (nee Horsfield), Lep. Ceylon, i. p. 72 (1881). 

 Parapithecops, Moore, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1884, p. 20. 



Eyes naked ; antennse more than half the length of the costa of forewing ; club 

 well formed, long and excavated on the inner side ; palpi porrect, third joint stout 

 and blunt at apex in the male, cylindrical in the female. Forewing with the costa 

 arched, the wing broader proportionately than it is in Pithecops, less rounded at 

 the apex, outer margin convex, lower angle well marked, hinder margin straight ; the 

 costal nervure terminates before the end of the cell ; the first sub-costal nervule just 



