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end-segment very short. Eye lashed. Head with scaling 

 raised to a large tuft. Spines of abdomen very weak. Merum 

 of mid- coxa not angulate behind ; tibiae with some long 

 spines ; spurs of mid-tibia of nearly the same length ; mid- 

 tarsus with basal comb, hind tarsus with few basal spines ; 

 paronychium with the lateral lobes very small, the ventral 

 ones absent ; tarsi long. Distal margin of fore wing irregular, 

 M 2 at apical third of cell, M 1 and R 3 close together ; costal 

 margin of hind wing nearly straight, convex near base, M 1 

 and M 2 close together, some distance from angle of cell, 

 D 2 and D 3 straight, lower angle of cell not acuminate. 



" $. Tenth tergite elongate -triangular, apex more or less 

 rounded- truncate ; sternite either strongly chitinized, with 

 the upperside transversely ribbed distally, or short, broad, 

 membranaceous. Clasper without friction- scales ; harpe 

 different in the various species. Penis-sheath without or with 

 apical process. 



" $. Vaginal plate triangular, apical edge projecting " 

 (Roths. & Jord., 1903, p. 590). 



Hah. South Russia to the Malay Peninsula and Madagascar. 

 One Indian species. Early stages described under that species. 



114. Sphingonaepiopsis pumilio (Boisd.). (Fig. 87, genitalia). 



Lophura pumilio, Boisduval, 1875, p. 311 (Sylhet). 

 Sphingonsepiopsis pumilio, Roths. & Jord., 1903, p. 592 ; Mell,. 



1922, p. 245, pi. viii, fig. 12 (larva), pi. xiii, figs. 42, 43, pi. xviii, 



fig. 19 (pupa) ; Seitz, 1929, p. 555, t. 64 d. 

 Lophura pusilla, Butler, 1875, p. 244 (Sylhet) ; Moore, 1884, 



p. 234 (Cachar) ; Hampson, 1892, p. 111. 

 Lophura minima, Butler, 1876, p. 310, pi. xxii, fig. 4 (Ayerpanas, 



Malacca). 



Imago. — <£?. Similar in colouring and shape to Gurelca 

 hyas, but differs in having a black spot at end of cell of fore 



Fig. 87. — Sphingonsepiopsis pumilio (Boisd.), clasper and harpe. 



wing and a broad, oblique, dark band from costa beyond 

 cell to middle of inner margin. Hind wing with reddish- 

 brown border of nearly even width. Underside of fore wing 

 with marginal band narrow at tornus ; hind wing with median 

 and postmedian curved lines ; no border. Expanse : J 

 27 mm., P 31 mm. 



$. Tenth tergite compressed, sharply pointed ; sternite 

 also pointed. Clasper (fig. 87) stronglv narrowed in apical 



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