DILIPA. 
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Genus DILIPA. 
Dilipa, Moore, Ilorsfield & Moore, Cat. Lep. Mus. E. I. C. i. p. 201 (1857). 
" Differs from typical Apaiura in having the discoidal cell closed in all the wings by a very 
delicate lower discocelhilar vein ; the palpi and antennae are, however, like those of Apatura." 
{Moore, 1. c.) 
Dilipa fenestra. (Plate XIV. fig. 2, ? .) 
Vanessa fenestra, Leech, Entomologist, xxiv.^ Suppl. p. 2G (Feb. 1891). 
Apatura clinjsus, Obertluir, Etud. d'Entona. xv. p. 10, pi. i. fig. 6 (1891, ? June). 
Female, Primaries reddish fulvous, clouded with fuscous brown along two thirds of the inner 
margin aiul towards apex ; there is a large quadrate yellowish-white spot before end of cell ; 
this is preceded by a broad black bar, and outwardly edged with black ; before the subapical 
cloud, wliich encloses four hyaline spots, is a short, oblique, yellow macular band, tinged 
outwardly with reddish, and separated from a round subhyaline spot by the third median 
nervule : below this is a large bluish-centred black spot, intersected by the first and second 
median nervules, and its lower edge confluent with a black spot on inner margin ; the outer 
margin is bordered with fuscous ; the submarginal band is reddish below costa, then yellowish, 
terminating in a whitish spot just above the submedian nervure. Secondaries reddish 
fulvous; basal third, abdominal area, and outer marginal border fuscous brown ; central spot 
blackish ; there is a broad central transverse band, composed of black oblong spots, with 
yellowish or whitish centres ; this band is indistinct towards the costa, where it is represented 
by a broad, longitudinal, yellowish spot, narrowly edged outwardly and above with black, 
and it terminates in the first median interspace. Under surface of primaries same as above, 
but paler, and there is no black spot towards inner angle ; the secondaries are pale whity 
brown, mottled and irrorated with reddish brown, and traversed by a chocolate-brown fascia, 
which is fairly broad at the costa, but narrow throughout the rest of its course to the anal 
angle ; the median nervure and first branch are also chocolate-brown ; there is a small brown 
discoidal spot, and indications of a submarginal series of the same colour, the lower spots of 
this series preceded by pale ones. 
Expanse 77 millim. 
I have one female specimen which was captured in July at Omei-shan by 
a native collector. 
The male of Dilijm fenestra, from Leon-Fang, is figured and described as 
Apatura chrysus by M. Oberthlir {I. c). It appears to differ from the female 
in having all the wings yellowish, marked Avith black as folloAvs : — primaries 
suffused with black on basal area ; there is a square spot in discoidal cell Avith 
a triangular one below it in the fork of median nervure, a broad oblique black 
band from costa to second median nervule, a round spot beloAv it in the first 
median interspace, and an elongate one in the submedian interspace above 
inner angle ; the outer margin is bordered with black, and the subapical 
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