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PLESIONEURA SPILOTHYRTJS (Plate 67, Pig. 4, 4a). 

 Eudamns spilotliyrus, Felder, Verb. Zool. Bot. Gesch. 1868, p. 283, i^ . 



Male and female. TJpperside dark olive-brown : forewing with a few olive- 

 yellow scales scattered on the basal area ; a small spot on middle of the costa, white 

 in male, ochreous in female ; a semi-diaphanous white quadrate spot with incised 

 outer border at end of the cell ; a similar-sized spot beneath it between the middle 

 and lower median veins ; a smaller spot above it at base of upper and middle 

 medians, and one spot (in some specimens two) between the lower median and 

 submedian near the posterior angle ; a conjugated series of three small spots before 

 the apex and two below them near the outer margin : hindwing with a very indistinct 

 small spot at end of the cell, and a curved discal series formed of clustered olive- 

 yellow scales, these scales also extending over base of the wing. Cilia cinereous- 

 brown, in hindwing slightly alternated with olive-yellow. Underside paler ; marked 

 as above ; the lower spots on forewing being olive-yellow. Body olive-brown ; palpr 

 with olive-yellow lateral streak. Antennge with olive- white subapical streak. 



Expanse 1^ to li^ inch. 



"Arabogamua" {Wade). 



" Plentiful about May; 2000 to 4000 feet, near jungle borders " (MacJcwood). . 



Genus HANTANA. 



Differs from typical Plesioneura in the forewing being more regularly triangular, 

 apex acute, exterior margin more oblique, and posterior margin shorter ; cell much 

 longer, extending to nearly three-fourths the wing, the discocellulars being very 

 oblique ; middle median at one-fifth and lower at four-fifths before end of the cell : 

 hindwing regularly oval ; cell longer ; discocellulars more erect ; medians nearer end 

 of the cell. Palpi more laxly clothed; fore tibife tufted; middle and hind tibise 

 hairy above, femora hairy beneath ; antennal club shorter. 



Tyjje, H. infernus. 



HANTANA INFEENUS (Plate 68, Fig. 6). 

 Eudamus infernus, Felder, Verb. Zool. Bot. Gesch. 1868, p. 283. 

 Male and female. TJpperside dark purplish-brown : forewing with two, some- 

 times three, very small golden-yellow semi-diaphanous costal spots before the apex, a 

 single but less distinct spot near upper end of the cell, and in female a similar costal 

 spot above it. Underside slightly paler : golden-yellow spots on forewing brighter : 

 hindwing with a very indistinct golden-yellow spot within the cell, one also at its 

 end, and a series across the disc, all formed by golden-yellow scales. Head and palpi 

 with lateral golden-yellow streak ; front of head and palpi speckled with golden-yellow. 

 Expanse, 6 If, ? 1\ inch. 



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