MELANOCYMA.- — XANTHOTiENIA. 185 



bands black, the basal and subbasal straight, the other two highly- 

 sinuous, finally a subterruinal slightly sinuous black line and the 

 dorsal margin and tornus narrowly canary-yellow. Antennae 

 black ; head, thorax and abdomen brownish grey. Male unknown. 



Exp. 2 104 mm. (4-1"). 



Hah. Recorded from the Chin Hills in Upper Burma. 



Apparently a local race of M. faunida, differing chiefly in the 

 postdiscal band on the underside of the fore wing being straight, 

 not crescent-shaped. 



Genus XANTHOT.ENIA. 



Xanthotaenia, Westwood, Trans. JEnt. Soc. (newser.) iv, 1856, p. 187 ; 

 M. § de N. Butt. Ind. \, 1883, p. 283 ; Moore, Lep. hid. ii, 1893- 

 96, p. 216. 



Type, X. husiris, Westw., from the Malay Peninsula. 



Range. Tenasserim ; Malay Peninsula ; Sumatra and Borneo. 



S 2 • Pore wing broadly triangular ; costa slightly arched, apex 

 rounded, termen convex, tornus well-marked, dorsum straight ; 

 cell broad, length about half of fore wing ; upper discocellular 

 minute, middle short, vertical, lower long, very oblique, slender 

 at base ; veins 8, 9, 10 out of 7, vein 10 from well beyond upper 

 apex of cell, 11 free, 12 terminating about midway on costa. 

 Hind wing more or less subquadrate, costa straight, apex rounded, 

 termen straight, tornus and dorsum strongly convex ; cell open or 

 very obscurely and slenderly closed ; vein 8 long, running close 

 along costa nearly to apex. Antennas very long, much over half 

 length of fore wing, slender, filiform, club scarcely formed ; palpi 

 compressed, small, oblique, third joint short, slender and acute. 

 Male secondary sex-mark a tuft of erect hairs one-third from apex 

 of vein 1 on the upperside of the hind wing, covering a small 

 patch of scabrous specialized scales. 



219. Xanthotaenia busiris (PL III, fig. 28), Westw. Trans. Ent. 

 Soc. (new ser.) iv, 1856, p. 187 ; M. Sf de N. Butt. Ind. i, 1883, 

 p. 284, fig. cJ; Moore, Lep. Ind. ii, 1893-96, p. 216, pi. 166, 

 figs. 1, 1 a-\ c, d 2 • 



<5 2 • Upperside dark chestnut-red. Pore wing : apical half 

 obliquely dusky black ; a broad, yellow, very oblique discal band 

 from a little before middle of costa to near the apex of inter- 

 space 2, but not reaching the termen, followed by a white preapical 

 spot. Hind wing uniform. Underside ochraceous red shaded 

 with a darker tint of the same. Pore wing : the oblique discal 

 yellow band as on upperside ; a highly sinuous line across the cell, 

 a postdiscal similar line from costa to end of discal band and a 

 less sinuous subterminal line dark chestnut-brown ; the apical area 

 between the discal yellow band and the postdiscal dark line 

 chestnut-red, carrying in vertical series a single ocellus with a 

 large and a small white spot above and two minute white dots 

 below it. Hind wing crossed by subbasal, median, postdiscal 

 and subterminal highly sinuous dark chestnut-brown lines ; a broad, 



