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5. Fore wing underside with a large, anteriorly 



sharply denned, orange-tawny area from 



R 3 to near hind margin, rest of wing very [(Butler), p. 178. 



much darker M. s. sp>ectabilis 



Fore wing without that patch, or the patch 

 small and clayish tawny, not well defined 

 anteriorly 6. 



6. Body with a prominent dorsal line ; upper 



side of body and wings very uniform in 

 colour, without distinct paler shades, sub- 

 anal spot M' J of hind wing absent or vesti- (Butler), p. 176. 



gial M. c. cristata 



Body without prominent dorsal line, or 

 wings with pale shades 7. 



7. Fore wing with the most distal line double . 8. 

 Fore wing with the most distal line single. . 9. 



8. Fore wing grey, or earthen-brown with [p. 179. 



grey powdering M . d. dyras (Walker), 



Fore whig clay-colour, with a flush of pale [Jord., p. 182. 



vinaceous-buff M. nympha Roths. & 



9. A large dark form M. sperchius gigas 



A smaller, paler form, often losing lines of [(Butler, p. 185. 



fore wing and anal spots of hind wing . . . M. sperchius albicans 



[(Butler), p. 185. 



Larvse. 



1. Horn long, straight, covered with large [(Butler), p. 178. 



pointed tubercles, tip strongly bifid M. s. spectabilis 



Horn long or of medium length, straight, 



tip not bifid 2. 



Horn long, down-curved, covered with short, 



thick conical tubercles ; head without [Jord., p. 184. 



apical processes M. nympha Roths. & 



2. Head with very short apical processes .... 3. 

 Apical processes reduced to a tubercle on 



apex of each lobe ; oblique stripe on 5 [(Butler), p. 186. 



widening into a patch of tubercles frontad. M. sperchius gigas 



3. Horn broader than high in cross-section. . . M. c. cristata (Butler), 

 Horn not broader than high 4. [p. 177. 



4. Spiracles lilac to reddish-brown, central [p. 180. 



slit white M. d. dyras (Walker), 



Spiracles white with black rim M . indicus (AValker), 



[p. 189. 



The pupae of the known species resemble each other so 

 closely that we have been unable to construct a key. 



39. Marumba gaschkewitschi fortis Jordan. (Fig. 36, nomino- 

 typical form) . 



Marumba gaschlceicitschi fortis, Jordan, 1929, p. 85 (Yunnan). 



Imago. — ^o. Fore wing upperside grey ; the interspace 

 between the two outer antemedian lines and that between the 

 two inner discal lines filled in with brown, thus two transverse 

 bands being formed Avhich are more conspicuous and deeper 

 in tone that in other subspecies of M . gaschkewitschi ; terminal 

 area deep brown, extending in costal two-fifths of wing to the 

 outermost discal line ; subtornal blackish -brown double 



