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followed by a series of small -white spots on the outer margin -which are confluent with the 
■white dashes in the black fringes. 
Sexes alike, but the tawny murks on uppcrside of female are rather larger. 
Expanse, c? 32 millim., $ ;33 miUim. 
An example of each sex taken at an elevation of 10,000 feet in July by a 
native collector at Pu-tsu-fong and three males from the high plateau to the 
north of Ta-chien-lu. These last differ from the type, as described above, in 
being smaller and rather darker on the upper surface. 
Genus STIBOGES. 
Stiboges, Butler, I'roc. Zool. Soc. Lond. ,1876, p. 308; deNiceville, Butt. lud. ii. p. 315 
(1880). 
" xillied to Ahisara, aspect of Nijmplddxum. Wings with outer margin broad, costal uervure of 
fore wing terminating abruptly at about the middle of the costa, opposite to the end of the 
discoidal cell ; subcostal ncrvure with five branches, the last two forking to apex ; upper 
radial nervule emitted from the inferior margin of the subcostal near its origin*; lower 
radial equally dividing the discocellulars, which are concave ; second and third median nervules 
emitted near together ; prnccostal nervure of hind wing short, oblique, directed backwards ; 
costal ner-vnre short, straight, oblique, terminating at basal third of costa ; subcostal ner-vure 
forking beyond the end of cell, the upper fork running close to the margin from the second 
third of costa ; radial nervvile emitted close to the subcostal, reducing the upper discocellular 
nervule to a point ; lower discocellular long, oblique, nearly straight ; second and third 
median nervules emitted nearer together than the first and second. Body slender ; eyes 
prominent ; antcnnaj slender, submoniliform ; palpi very small. 
" Type Stiho[/('s iiynq^JncJia." (Bi(tler, I. c.) 
" Til is diagnosis is evidently drawn up from a female specimen, though the sex is not stated. In 
the male the inner and outer margins of the fore wing are exactly equal in length, the latter 
is nearly straight, not strongly convex as in the female, and the apex very acute, ]iot rounded. 
It has no secondary sexual characters. The hiiul wing is much less broad than in the female." 
(de Niceville, I. c.) 
Stiboges nymphidia. 
Stiboges nymphidia, Biitl. Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1876, p. 309, pi. xxii. fig. 1, ? ; de 
Niceville, Butt. lud. ii. p. 316, pi. xxiv. fig. 119, ? (1880). 
" Both wings semi-transparent, snow-white. Fore wing with broad costal and external dark 
brown borders, sinuated internally ; two irregular submarginal series of unequal white spots. 
Hind wing with a broad dark brown outer border, undulated internally ; a sinuated disco- 
submarginal lunulated pale brown line ; a submarginal series of elongated white spots. Body 
* " This is surely a mistake ; the subcostal nervure originates from the has of the wing, the 
upper radial nervule has a common origin with the middle discocellular nervule (the iipper disco- 
cellular is wanting in this genus) from a point on the subcostal ncrvure beyond the base of the 
second subcostal nervule." {de JS'icevdle, 1. q.) 
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