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to meet it, again Lctoming free and reaching the margin some distance beyond the apex of the 

 cell ; second subcostal with its base nearer to the base of the first subcostal than to the base 

 of the upper discoidal; third subcostal originating midway between the apices of the cell and the 

 wing ; middle discocellular nervule slightly outwardly obliijue, concave ; lower discoccllular of 

 the same length as the middle discocellular, slightly inwardly oblique, concave ; second median 

 nervule originating some little distance before the lower end of the discoidal cell ; submedian 

 nervure following the inner margin, slightly bent downwards towards its extremity. Hind 

 wing : costa arched at base, then slightly concave to apex, apex acute, outer margin at first 

 straight, then convex ; anal angle rounded ; costal nervure very long, sinuous, following the 

 outline of the wing, ending on the margin at the apex of the wing ; first subcostal nervule 

 originating some distance before the apex of the discoidal cell ; discocellular nervules nearly 

 erect, concave ; second median nervule originatin;j; immediately before the lower end of the cell ; 

 submedian and internal uervures straight. Antennce short, less than half the length of the 

 costa of the fore wing, with a large, flattened, spatulate club. Palpi long, porrect, second 

 joint furnished with very long bristly hairs beneath, third joint naked, acicular. Ei/es hairy. 

 Head with a tuft of long hairs between the bases of the antenna). Male with no secondary 

 sexual characters. Female with the outer margin of the fore wing more convex than in the 

 male, otherwise similar. 

 *' Type CJiiladcs ? pontis, Elwes." {de NiceviUe, 1. c.) 



Orthomiella pontis. (Plate XXXI. fig. 19, ?, var.) 



C'/tilades? pontis, Elwes, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1887, p. 446; Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 



1888, p. 384, pi. viii. fig. 5, 6. 

 C/iilades? sinensis, Elwes, P. Z. S. 1887, p. 446. 



Orthomiella pontis, de Niceville, Butt. Ind, iii. p. 126, pi. xxvi. fig. 177, cJ (1890). 



" Male above dull purplish black, with faint green or (in some lights) purple reflection, darker 



towards the body. Fringes alternated with black and white. 

 *' Beneath dull grey, with irregular darker markings, which on the hind wing coalesce into a 



blackish patch powdered with grey on the inner half of the wing. 

 " Body black, with grey hairs and palpi. Antennie faintly ringed, with a short distinct club. 

 " Expanse inch." (Ehvcs, I. c.) 



Tar. sinensis, Elwes. (Plate XXXI. fig. 19, $ .) " Resembles C. pontis, but has a broad border 

 of a darker colour than the wings, no green reflections, and a much rounder apex to the fore 

 wing. Beneath, the markings are very similar but more continuous, and there is an outer 

 band near the margin of the fore wing not found in 0. po7itis. The dark markings on the 

 hind wing also come nearer to the margin." 



The type oi 0. pontis was described by Mr. Elwes from specimens taken 

 by himself " on the bridge crossing the Rangpi River on the way from 

 Darjiling to Mongpo, at abont 6000 feet elevation, in dense dripping 

 evergreen forest." The description of var. sinensis appears to have been 

 made from a specimen taken by me near Ningpo in April 1886, and also 



