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The basal white spot of the hindwings also occupies 

 nearly half the wing, but in the anterior part there is an 

 isolated large white spot, which is always connected with 

 the basal patch in maculifera. On the hindborder the white 

 colour surpasses the anal angle much farther, but the 

 dark colour is not gradually increasing in breadth, but 

 ends with an acute prominence in the basal patch. 



Body Q. 27—33 mm., forew. 38—41 mm., hindw. 34—37 mm. 

 Abd. Q 9 — 20 mm., gr.br. 13 — 14 mm., gr. br. 14 — 15 mm. 



Habitat: Tonkin. 



Two specimens, both females, from Tonkin. The types 

 are in the Paris- and in the Leyden Museum. 



Hermes selysi, nov. spec. 



Probably only a local form or subspecies of maculifera 

 from which it differs in the following points : 



About one third smaller in size. Spots in the forewings 

 very small, pointlike, the apical spots relatively half so 

 small, only somewhat larger than in sumatrensis. In the 

 hindwings the basal spot is very small and irregularly 

 trapeziform ; it reaches about to the middle of the anal- 

 border and is not connected with the other spot. 



The female has the pronotum black, but in a specimen 

 that may be a damaged male it is of a light orange 

 colour without indications of black spots. 



Body Q. 25 mm., forew. 25—32 mm., hindw. 23—29 mm. 

 Abd. 9- 10 mm., gr.br. t 9— 11 mm., gr.br. 8£ — 11 mm. 



Habitat: Sylhet and Assam. 



I examined four specimens. The damaged one, that seems 

 to be a male, is from Sylhet and in the Collection de 

 Selys. The others are from Khasia Hills, Assam, and are all 

 females. Two of them are in my collection in the Leyden 

 Museum, the third is in the British Museum. 



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