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similar but without the bar; irrorations of pale scales on the basal 

 dark area and on the lighter brown terminal margin, forming an 

 irregular transverse band on the latter ; close to the outer margin 

 of the dark area there are two black ocelli, with the interior half 

 of the irides surrounding pure white. Antennse red ; head, thorax 

 and abdomen dark brown. Secondary sex-mark a small glandular 

 patch above the base of the subcostal vein on the upperside of 

 the hind wing, covered by a tuft of long hair. — $ . Similar, the 

 blue on the upperside restricted to the basal area. Fore wing 

 with a curved discal band of whitish spots from costa to vein 2, 

 and a subterminal zigzag dusky white narrow band. Hind wing 

 with a very dark brown zigzag subterminal narrow band. Under- 

 side similar to the underside in the male but paler ; the hind wing 

 with a discal, slightly sinuous, dark brown band in addition to the 

 other markings. 



Exp. S 2 100-106 mm. (4-4-2"). 



Hah. Borneo and the Malay Peninsula, extending into the 

 extreme south of Tenasserim. 



Genus STICHOPHTHALMA. 



Sticophthalma, Felder, Wien. ent. Monatsch. vi, 1862, p. 27 ; M. 

 # de N. Butt Ind. i, 1883, p. 308 ; Moore, Lep. Ind. ii, 1893-96, 

 p. 202. 



Type, S. howqua, Westw., China. 



Range. Eastern Himalayas ; Assam ; Burma ; extending to 

 China, Siam and Cambodia. 



$ 2 • Fore wing very broadly triangular, costa arched ; termen 

 straight, slightly convex on posterior half ; tornus rounded, 

 dorsnm straight ; cell very broad, short, not half length of fore 

 wing ; upper and middle discocellulars short, subequal, lower 

 discocellular strongly concave, oblique in its lower portion ; vein 

 4 from lower apex of cell and obtusely angulate at one-third from 

 base ; vein 10 absent. Hind wing broadly ovate ; costa arched, 

 termen slightly scalloped, apex rounded; dorsum nearly straight 

 along basal half, then slightly emarginate ; cell open, vein 8 ending 

 on costal margin. Antennae filiform, not quite half length of 

 fore wing, club gradual ; palpi erect, projecting above level of head ; 

 eyes not hairy ; intermediate and posterior femora longer than the 

 tibiae. Male secondary sex-mark " a small ovate glandular patch " 

 above base of vein 1 of hind wing shaded by an erectile tuft of 

 long hairs. 



Key to the forms of Stichophthalma. 



a. Upperside : terminal markings on both fore 

 and hind wing large and conspicuous. 

 a'. Basal area on upperside of fore wing dark 



chocolate-brown S. camadeva, p. 192. 



