184 NTMPHALID^E. 



217. Clerome assama, West-wood, Trans. Ent. Soc. (new ser.) iv, 1856, 



p. 185; M.fyde N. Butt. Ind. i, 1883, p. 314, fig. $; Moore, 

 Lep. Ind. ii, 1893-96, p. 208, pi. 163, figs. 1, 1 «-l c, 3 $ . 



6 $ . Closely allied to and resembling C. eumeus, but larger j 

 the ground-colour on the upperside in the S uniform ochraceous, 

 without a preapical oblique band on the fore wing ; the $ is more 

 ochraceous brown than maroon, with a preapical bright ochraceous 

 oblique band on the fore wing, broader and more diffuse than in 

 C. eumeus. Underside similar to the underside in O. eumeus, with 

 the sinuous transverse dark lines and spots much as in that form, 

 but the ground-colour is slightly darker and more uniform. 



Exp. S 2 88-102 mm. (3-48-4"). 



Hob. Hill-ranges of Assam. 



Genus MELANOCYMA. 



Melanocyma, Westioood, Trans. Ent. Soc. (new ser.) iv, 1856, p. 186 ; 

 Moore, Lep. Ind. ii, 1893-96, p. 210. 



Type, M. faunula, Westw., from the Malay Peninsula. 



Mange. Indo-Malayan Region, but not recorded from beyond 

 the Chin Hills in Upper Burma. 



<$ $ . Fore wing broadly triangular, costa with a regular arch, 

 apex rounded, termen straight, tornus rounded, dorsum slightly 

 sinuous ; cell longer than half fore wing, moderately broad ; 

 upper and middle discocellulars short, subequal, lower long, 

 oblique, S-shaped ; vein 10 absent, 11 from one-third before 

 upper apex of cell, free. Hind wing broadly pear-shaped ; costa, 

 termen and dorsum all slightly arched ; apex rounded ; tornus 

 more broadly rounded ; cell open ; veins 5 and 6 shortly stalked, 

 vein 7 terminating at apex, vein 8 on costal margin. Antennae 

 moderately long, about half length of fore wing ; club long, very 

 gradual ; palpi compressed, obliquely porrect, third joint short ; 

 eyes naked ; posterior tibise longer than the tarsi. Male secondary 

 sex-mark a patch of specialized scales at base of vein 8 on upper- 

 side of hind wing, overlapped by a tuft of long hairs ; a second 

 similar elongate sex-mark between veins 1 a and 1 near the tornal 

 angle. 



218. Melanocyma faunuloides, de Niceville, Jour. Bomb. N. H. Soc. 



ix, 1895, p. 259, pi. N, fig. 2 $ ; Moore, Lep. Ind. ii, 1893-96, 

 p. 210, pi. 167, figs. 1, 1 a, 2 • 



$ . Upperside very pale brownish grey, the dark markings of 

 the underside showing through ; hind wing posteriorly canary- 

 yellow, the brownish-grey colour fading to white along the inner 

 margins of the yellow. Underside : fore wing, a spot in the cell, 

 a bar across it, the sides of the median vein up to this bar, a 

 discal and a postdiscal transverse narrow band black, the discal 

 irregularly sinuous, the postdiscal nearly straight. Hind wing 

 with basal, subbasal, discal and postdiscal narrow 7 , transverse 



