JUNONIA— STMBRENTHIA. 
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" Underside [of both sexes] : fore wing pale ochrcous brown ; medial patch paler ochreons and 
sutfused outwardly ; crossed by black discoidal lines ; two black discal spots. Hind wing with 
basal half greyish ocbreous ; discal area jialo ochreous ; crossed with brown lunular lines, a 
medial fascia, and discal row of small brown spots. Expanse 2 inches." {Moore, I. c.) 
This species is generally distributed in Western China, and occiirs also at 
Chang-yang in Central China. None of the numerous specimens received 
showed any important differences from the type of the species. 
According to de Niceville [1. c.) J. hierta in India varies considerably 
according to the humidity or dryness of the atmospheric conditions under 
which it exists. It is distributed throughout India, Ceylon, and the Anda- 
mans to Burma. 
Genus SYMBRENTHIA. 
Symbrenthia, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 43 (1816) ; de Niceville^ Butt. Ind. ii. 
p. 238 (1886). 
Laogona, Boisduval, Sp. Gen. i. pi. x. fig. 3 (1836) ; Doubleday, Gen. Diurn. Lep, i. 
p. 190 (1848). 
" Head of moderate width, hairy. 
" Eyes oval, not remarkably prominent, hairy. 
" Palpi ascending, projecting beyond the forehead, clothed with long scales, rather closely 
appressed, except at the back of the second joint towards the apex: first joint short, sub- 
cyhndric, curved, two fifths the length of the second joint ; second joint cylindric, scarcely 
curved, subtruncate at the apex ; third joint elongate, conical, rather shorter than the first 
joint. 
" Antenna about three fourths the length of the body, terminating in a rather short obtuse club. 
" Thorax oval, stout, hairy ; ahdomen about two thirds the length of the inner margin of the 
hind wing. 
" Fore winr/ nearly triangular, the apex very slightly truncate, costal margin but little curved, 
outer margin about three fourths the length of the costal, slightly cmarginate, inner 
margin nearly straight, equal to the outer ; costal nervure rather stout, extending beyond 
the middle of the wing; subcostal nervure five-branched, its first branch thrown off 
considerably beyond the middle, its second shortly before the end of the cell, the third at a 
greater distance from the origin of the second than from that of the fourth, this last ncarei 
to the apex than to the origin of the third ; upper discocellular iiervule very short, middle 
discocollular much curved, about half the length of the lower, which is nearly straight, 
and anastomoses with the third median uervule where this last makes a slight angle. 
" Hind wing angular, the base with a rather prominent shoulder ; costal margin curved, outer 
margin curved as far as the third median nervule, then produced into a short tooth, thence 
sinuate to the anal angle, all the margins of about equal length ; pra^costal nervure bifid ; 
discoidal nervule separating from the second subcostal close to its origin ; discoidal cell 
open ; third median nervule scarcely curved. 
