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49. Daphnusa ocellaris ocellaris Walk. (Fig. 42, A, B, genitalia) . 



Daphnusa ocellaris, Walker, 1856, p. 237 (Borneo) ; Swinhoe, 1890, 



p. 164 (Bassein); Hampson, 1892, p. 72. 

 Daphnusa ocellaris ocellaris, Roths. & -lord., 1903, p. 284 ; Seitz, 



1928, p. 540, t. 62 a. 

 Allodaphnusa fruhstorferi, Huwe, 1895, p. 368, t. 3, fig. 2 (?) 



(Java). 



Imago. — (£?. Pattern of fore wing similar to that of the 

 species of Marumba, the two tawny marks with the brown 

 patch near hind angle corresponding to the blackish -brown 

 spots of Marumba. 



£. Pale reddish-brown or dark olive-brown ; collar and 

 vertex of thorax darker. Fore wing upper side with two 

 waved subbasal lines angled outwards at SM 2 , where they 

 join an oblique antemedian band ; a crenulate postmedian 

 band bearing a large pale spot at inner margin, the inner 

 side with some red dentate marks ; two crenulate submarginal 

 lines ; a chestnut patch on costa before apex. Hind wing 

 red-brown, with some bright chestnut lines above anal angle. 



Fig. 42.— Daphnusa Walk. Genitalia. 

 A, D. ocellaris, $, 10th segment, ventral view ; B, clasper and. harpe ; 

 rb, end of the harpe. 



Underside : fore wing with two crenulate submarginal lines ; 

 hind wing with curved median and postmedian lines. 



$. Darker brown ; a dark brown band on metathorax. 

 Expanse : $ 80-92 mm., $ 112 mm. 



$. Tenth abdominal tergite carinate above (fig. 42 A), 

 curved downwards, the curved part deeply cleft, each lobe 

 bluntly pointed, very strongly chitinized at end ; the sides 

 dilated laterad and ventrad before apical hook ; sternite 

 membranaceous, vestigial. Clasper (fig. 42 B) reduced in 

 size, dorsal margin bent ventrad, apex rounded, inner surface 

 deeply concave ; from this cavity projects distally the end 

 of the harpe, proximal part of harpe large. Penis-sheath 

 without external armature, apex more produced on one side 

 than on the other, the projecting part often subglobose. 



9. Eighth tergite of abdomen scaled, cleft to base. Proxi- 

 mal part of vaginal plate convex mesially, the proximal and 

 lateral edges of orifice raised into a smooth strongly chitinized 

 ridge which is feebly sinuate ; post -vaginal part of plate 

 membranaceous, scaled. 



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