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Genus SPALGIS. 



Lucia, Westwood (part), Gen. Diurn. Lep. ii. p. 501 (1852). 



Spalgis, Moore, Proc. Zool. See. 1879, p. 137. de Niceville, Butt, of India, iii. p. 54 (1890). 

 Bingham, Fauna of Brit. India, Butt. ii. p. 310 (1907). 



Eyes naked ; antennae about half as long as the costa of forewing, club long and 

 gradual ; palpi sub-porrect, third joint short, about one-third the length of the second ; 

 legs short. Forewing, costa slightly arched, apex not rounded ; outer margin convex, 

 lower angle somewhat angulate ; hinder margin straight ; vein 3 from before lower 

 end of cell, 5 from junction of middle and lower discocellulars, these latter sub-equal ; 

 veins 6 and 7 closely approximate from upper end of cell, upper discocellular therefore 

 absent; vein 8 absent; 9 from apex of basal third of 7; 10 and 11 free from 

 apical third of sub-costal. Hindwing, costa somewhat straight, apex, outer margin 

 and lower angle roundly arched ; cell about half the length of the wing ; upper 

 discocellular very oblique, middle and lower vertical ; veins 3 and 4 from lower end 

 of cell ; 7 from a little before upper end (Bingham). Egg, flattened above and 

 delicately reticulated with irregular hexagons (Doherty). 



Type, S. epius, Westwood. 



SPALGIS EPIUS. 



Plate 628, figs. 3, <? , 3a, J , 3b, $ (imago), 3c (dorsal view' of pupa, slightly enlarged), 3d (dorsal 

 view of pupa, highly magnified), 3e (side view of pupa, slightly enlarged). 



Lucia epius, Westwood, Gen. Diurn. Lep. ii. p. 502, pi. 76, fig. 5, ? (1852). 



Spalfjis epius, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1879, p. 137 ; id. Lep. Ceylon, i. p. 72, pi. M, figs. 1, (J , la, ? 



(1881). Hampson, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1888, p. 356. de Niceville, Butt, of India, iii. 



p. 55, pi. 26, fig. 163, $ (1890). Swinhoe, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1893, p. 292. Aitken, Journ. Bo. 



Nat. Hist. Soc. 1894, p. 485, pi. A, B. Davidson, Bell and Aitken, id. 1896, p. 372 (Ufe 



history). Aitken and Comber, id. 1903, vol. xv. p. 47. Bingham, Fauna of Brit. India, Butt. 



ii. p. 311 (1907). 



Imago. — Male. Upperside brownish-black, a small whitish spot beyond the cell, 

 varying a little in size and sometimes quadrate, no other markings ; cilia whitish, 

 becoming brown towards apex of forewings. Underside pale grey, uniform in colora- 

 tion in some specimens, with a discal transverse obscure fascia on the forewing in 

 others ; both wings crossed by numerous, very slender dark brown strigse, which are 

 outwardly edged by whitish, an anticiliary dark brown line, inwardly edged by whitish. 

 Forewing with a round white spot beyond the cell. 



Female. Forewing. Upperside with broad costal and outer marginal l)orders, 

 the latter nearly black, the former paling gradually towards the base of the wing ; a 

 black spot at the end of the cell, a short white streak beyond it, the rest of the wing 



