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CHITTIRA FUMATA (Plate 4, Fig. 1, 1«). 



Danais fumata, Butler, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1866, p. 53. 



Danais Tajirohana, Felder, Reise Novara, Lep. ii. p. 349, pi. 42, f. 4 (1867). 



Male and female. Upperside rich brown, palest on the abdominal margin : 

 forewing with a greenish- white narrow discoidal streak, a broad lengthened triangular 

 streak below the cell, three discal spots above it, the upper one very minute, a 

 submarginal oblique series of five spots, the second, third, and fourth being elongated, 

 and a marginal row of six small spots : hindwing with a broad discoidal streak, a 

 small streak and two minute spots beyond it, a submarginal apical series of three 

 small spots, three in the male, and five in the female, the female having also a lower 

 marginal row of minute spots, two linear-shaped scent-pouches in the male, one 

 situated on the lower submedian vein, the other on the internal vein. Thorax, head, 

 and palpi, spotted with white, femora beneath streaked with white ; abdomen brown 

 above, grey beneath. Underside paler brown, markings as above, exterior border of 

 hindwing grey speckled, pouch area in male and discal area in both sexes darker brown. 



Expanse 2f to 3^ inches. 



" Found all the year ; scarce in February and March. Hills 3000 to 6000 feet, 

 in forest and often in coffee-plantations. Common at Newera Bliya and several miles 

 round. Flight slow and heavy " {Hutchison). 



Genus MACROPLCEA. 



Macroploea, Butler, Journal of the Linn. Soc. Zool. xiv. p. 292 (1878). 



"Wings very large and broad : forewing in male elongated, quadrate, apex 

 acuminate, exterior margin oblique, convex at the angle, posterior margin very 

 convex in the middle and extremely oblique thence to the base : hindwing triangular, 

 with a large oval pale upper-discoidal patch, the costa long, apex somewhat angular, 

 exterior margin regularly convex. 



MACROPLCEA ELISA (Plate 5, Fig. 2, 2a). 



Euplosa Elisa, Butler, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1866, p. 270. 



Macroplcea Elisa, Butler, Journ. Linn. Soc. Zool. xiv. p. 293 (1878). 



Male and female. Upperside golden^brown. Male : forewing dusky-brown 

 along posterior border ; a small brownish- white spot at lower end of the cell, a linear 

 discal series of three spots, a recurved submarginal and marginal row of spots ; 

 hindwing dusky-brown on exterior border, anterior border ochreous-white, a large 

 ochreous space within middle of the cell, five small discal ochreous-white spots, an 

 anterior submarginal and marginal row of small white spots. Female : upperside 

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