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Cyclidia substigmaeia. 



Var. Female. Whitish. Head deep black. Palpi porrect, 

 not extending beyond the head ; third joint extremely short. An- 

 tennas compressed. Legs short, stout, smooth ; hind tibiae with four 

 stout spurs. Wings ample, with brownish cinereous oblique mark- 

 ings, which consist of a dentate line near the base, a middle band 

 which is much dilated in the disk of the fore wings, an exterior band 

 which is very attenuated in the disk of the fore wings and is much 

 dilated towards the costa, and a submarginal zigzag line which is 

 accompanied by points ; under side with a large blackish discal 

 spot. Fore wings acute ; costa very convex ; exterior border 

 straight, very oblique. Length of the body 9 lines ; of the wings 

 30 lines. 



Hong Kong. Presented by J. C. Bowring, Esq. 



The three following species of Cyclidia differ much from the 

 typical form of the genus. 



CVCLIDIA METAPH^EAEIA. 



Mas. Pallide lutea ; caput fuscum ; abdomen fuscescente-cine- 

 reum, fasciculo apicali flavescente ; alee nigro subconspersa, 

 annulo discali nigro, fascia marginali albida antice abbre- 

 viata, lunulis marginalibus paucis nigris, margine exteriore 

 subinciso ; anticce cinerece, basi lutece, postice ferruginete, vitta 

 tenui duplicata vix undulata ; posticce cinereo-fuscce. 



Male. Pale luteous. Head dark brown. Abdomen brownish 

 cinereous, excepting the apical tuft. Wings thinly and minutely 

 black-speckled, with a black discal ringlet ; exterior border broadly 

 but irregularly whitish, excepting towards the costa of the fore 

 wings ; a few black marginal lunules, some of them incomplete. 

 Pore wings mostly ferruginous hindward, cinereous except towards 

 the base in front of a double hardly undulating blackish line, which 

 extends from the interior border and becomes evanescent in the 

 disk. Hind wings cinereous-brown ; exterior border more notched 

 in front than that of the fore wings. Length of the body 12 lines ; 

 of the wings 32 lines. 



a. Darjeeling, Hindostan. Presented by the Secretary of the India 

 Board. 



