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nerve ; all the wings traversed by three dark reddish-brown lines, terminating at the sub- 
median nervuro ; there are six small yellow spots on the primaries before the submarginal 
line, that nearest the costa punctiform, sometimes absent ; on the secondaries there is a 
transverse series of five similar spots, the first is near the central line, the fourth and fifth 
approximate more to the submarginal, whilst the second and third are equidistant from either 
line. Fringes on both surfaces grey-brown, preceded by a slender brownish Une. 
Female. Colour of male ; outer margin of primaries with a suffused blackish border, broad on costa 
and tapering towards outer angle ; external margin of secondaries is also suffused with 
blackish. The vitreous patch and tuft of hairs are characters pertaining to the male only. 
Expanse, c? 78-89 millim., ? 84-100 millim. 
This species is closely allied to C. assama, Westw., from Assam and the 
Khasi Hills ; but it is decidedly paler in colour above, whilst beneath the 
spots are much smaller ; the transverse lines are differently curved, and there 
is no disposition of the second to unite with the third above anal angle. 
Occurs at Ichang and Chang-yang in Central China, and at Moupin, Wa- 
shan, Chia-kou-ho, and Omei-shan in Western China. It flies in July. 
Genus STICHOPHTHALMA. 
StichojMJialma, Pelder, Wien. ent. Mon. vi. p. 27 (1862). 
Thaumantis , "VVestwood, Gen. Diurn. Lep. ii. p. 335 (1851), in part. 
" A ThaumantMde, Hiibn., capite minore, antennis brevioribus, palpis multo longioribus, pro sexu 
diversis, vena subcostali alarum anticarum quadriramosa, ramis omnibus liberis, vena dis- 
coidali superiore earum a ramis subcostalibus magis remota, quam ab inferiore, vena disco- 
cellxilari inferiore in medio valde curvata, trunco superiore venarum in alis posticis magis 
deflexo, ramo mediano ultimo earum baud geniculate venaque interna inferiore breviore et 
magis torta optime dignosci potest. 
" Tres continet species valde similes, Omnes ocellis pluribus seriatis in pagina inferiore omatae 
sunt." (Felder, I. c.) 
Stichophthalma howqua. (Plate I. fig. 3, var. $ .) 
Thaumantis howqua, Westwood, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1851, p. 174 j vol. iv. p. 178, 
pi. 18. figs. 2, 2 a (1858). 
Stichophthalma howqua, Felder, Wien. ent. Mon. vi. p. 28 (1862). 
" T, alis supra fulvis, omnibus' serie subapicali lunularum nigrarum valde curvatarum; maciilis 
hastiformibus nigris, in alis posticis majoribus, antice adjectis ; alis infra luteo-fulvis, strigis 
duabus obliquis irregulariter sinuatis, V^^ ante et 2°'^''' pone medium alarum anticarum, 
ilia ante et hac per medium posticarum, extensis, externa e costa fere ad angulum analem 
ducta ubi recui'vat ; nubila recta obliqua fusca submedia ad angulum analcra extensa, macula 
grisea terminata ; alis anticis ocellis tribus, posticis quinque rufis, pupilla alba iride tenui 
nigra strigisque duabus parallelis vix angulatis prope marginem apicalem. (Mas.) Expans. 
alar, antic, unc. 5." (^Westwood, I. c.) 
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