134 A. WATSON 



Distribution. India, China (i $ from Shantung, Tsingtau ; in the Museum 

 Koenig, Bonn), Korea, Japan, Malaya, Sumatra. A study of some of the available 

 material of this species has shown the presence of two new subspecies ; one in India, 

 and the other in Sumatra (and probably also Malaya) , The single female from China 

 mentioned above almost certainly belongs to the nominate subspecies, which occurs 

 in Japan and Korea. 



Type. Holotype $, Korea, Gensan, vii.1887 {Leech) ; Drepanidae genitalia slide 

 No. 1612. In the BM(NH). 



Macrocilix orbiferata (Walker) 

 (PI. 13, fig. 379 ; Text-figs. 265-270) 

 Abraxas orbiferata Walker, 1862 : 1126. 



This species can be separated easily from maia Leech and mysticata Walker by 

 the colour-pattern of the wings, the lamellate antennae, and the genitalia of both 

 sexes. From taiwana Wileman (PI. 13, fig. 380), orbiferata is distinguished by the 

 colour-pattern and by the female genitalia (the male of taiwana is unknown). 



Two subspecies are known : the nominate subspecies (Indo-Chinese and Malayan 

 Subregions), and cilicoides Snellen (1889 : 9, pi. 1, fig. 3) (Java) (see Text-figs. 

 269, 270). 



Macrocilix orbiferata orbiferata (Walker) 



(PI. 13, fig. 379) 



Macrocilix orbiferata (Walker) ; Hampson, [1893] : 330. 



Macrocilix orbiferata (Walker) ; Strand, 191 1 : 197. 



Macrocilix orbiferata (Walker) ; Gaede, 1931 : 6. 



Sewa orbiferata (Walker) Swinhoe, 1900 : 591. 



Sewa orbiferata (Walker) ; Warren, 1922 : 447. [Good fig.] 



Argyris insignata Moore, 1867 : 645. [Synonymy accepted from Hampson [1893] : 330.] 



Distinguished from orbiferata cilicoides Snellen (1889) by the colour-pattern of the 

 fore wing. No reliable diagnostic features have been found in the female genitalia, 

 though little cilicoides material was available for study. 



Distribution. N. India, N. Burma, China (Szechwan, Chekiang, Fukien), Malaya 

 and Borneo. Two females from the Chinese province of Hunan (in the BM(NH)) 

 also probably belong to this subspecies. 



Types, orbiferata. Holotype $, Borneo, Sarawak. In the Hope Department 

 Museum, Oxford. 



insignata. The type material originated from ' Bengal ' according to the original 

 description. It formed part of the A. E. Russell collection which is apparently 

 lost (see Horn and Kahle, 1937 : 380). 



