THAUKIA. 195 



Genus THAURIA. 



Thaumantis, pt., Westwood, Trans. Ent. Soc. (new ser.) iv, 1856, 



p. 176, pi. 17 2 5 M.fy de N., pt., Butt. Ind. i, 1883, p. 807. 

 Thauria, Moore, Lep. Ind. ii, 1893-96, p. 185. 



Type, T. aliris, Westwood, from Borneo. 



Range. Lower Burma ; Tenasserim ; Siain ; Malay Peninsula ; 

 Borneo. 



S 2 • Closely allied to Thaumantis, "Westwood, but in the fore 

 wing vein 7 is emitted well before and not at apex of cell, vein 10 

 runs very close to but does not anastomose with vein 11, and 

 similarly vein 11 does not anastomose with vein 12, the upper 

 discocellular is oblique and very much longer than the middle 

 discocellular ; this latter being minute, consequently veins 5 and 6 

 are closely approximate at base. Hind wing : vein 4 only curved 

 upwards, not obtusely angulate ; cell open as in Thaumantis, but 

 vein 6 is closer at base to vein 7. 



Only a single form, very closely allied to the type if not a race 

 of it, is found within our limits. 



229. Thauria pseudaliris, Butler (Thaumantis), Journ. Linn. Soc., Zool. 

 xiii, 1867, p. 115 ; M . 8? de N. (Thaumantis) Butt. Ind. i, 1883, 

 p. 307 ; Moore, Lep. Ind. ii, 1893-96, p. 186, pi. 149, figs. 1, 

 la-lb, J 2- 



S . Upperside dark vandyke-brown. Fore wing : the base 

 broadly as far as the apex of the cell clothed with dense, short, 

 dark ochraceous hairs ; a broad oblique discal band and two pre- 

 apical spots white, the former tinged with yellow and extending 

 from costa to the termen just above the tornus. Hind wing : the 

 costa and apex broadly and a large posterior area bright ochraceous, 

 the dark ground-colour between veins 5 and 6 produced broadly 

 to the termen. Underside", basal third of the wings greyish, 

 somewhat densely studded with short woolly ochraceous hairs and 

 with some spots and lines of dark chestnut-red, followed by a dark 

 chestnut-red irregular band crossing both fore and hind wing, 

 broadest posteriorly on the fore and anteriorly on the hind wing. 

 Fore wing with the oblique white discal band as on the upperside, 

 beyond it a subtriangular area, and beneath it the dorsal margin 

 broadly brown, the apex and termen up to the outer end of the 

 white band very broadly chestnut-red, defined inwardly by an 

 obscure dark line and a white spot below the costa. Hind wing : 

 the dark chestnut-red median band narrowed and sub-interrupted 

 in the middle by a white patch ; two large oval, discal, ochraceous- 

 brown, dark-ringed ocelli inwardly lined with white ; beyond the 

 ocelli the terminal area very broadly bright ochraceous orange, 

 crossed by a subterminal waved chestnut-red narrow band and 

 an obscure incomplete terminal dark line. Antennae chestnut-red ; 

 head, thorax and abdomen brown. Secondary sex-mark a sub- 



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