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Genus PE0TH0E. 



rrotltoe, Hiibuer, Samitth Ex, ScliiuGtt. (181fJ— IHlIi ; Westw. (ion. Ditini. Lep. p, 2GG (18S0). 



Anterior wings aubtri angular, the costal margin arched and convex, the" apex rounded and non- 

 or sub -prominent, the outer margin nearly straight, or mojv or less concave about the centre, and in 

 some speeirs distinctly waved. l.Wal nervine short, souk- what suddenly relic xed to cost a a little 

 beyond end of cell; first and second subcostal nerrulos emitted before the end of nil, the distance 

 between their bases, and that between the base of second and end of cell being sttbeqnal; third 

 emitted at about, one-fifth beyond end of cell and extending to apex, its apical third somewhat 

 gibbous or convex; fourth and fifth bifurcating a little beyond the base of third; the fourth deHexed 

 ami eooeave beneath the convex portion of third. Upper diseo-ct-lhilur iiei'vole shorl and obliijue, 

 middle disco- cellular suberect, lower disco-cellular prominently curved and rounded inwardly at base, 

 and then obliquely continued to apex; median nervules situate wide apart. Posterior wings obovate, 

 the costal margin moderately oblique and convex, the outer margin more or less prominently waved 

 and produced in a broad, spatulate, caudate, outwardly curve* I prolnngatiou between the lirst and second 

 median nenules ; abdominal margin ample and blightly r.onvex at the body, and then divergent and 

 oblique to anal angle. Precostal nervure suberect and curved inwardly at apex : costal nervnre rounded 

 •:oi.i • i i ♦ i i 1 1 ;.• \<< :>.]■> < <oud subcostal ueivule and discoidal nt-rvEile with an apparently common origin; 

 dicoidal cell completely open. Palpi placed close to the face. Body small ; thorax robust. Antennas with 

 a long and gradually formed club, 



Pro! hue is a Malayan ^enus, being found throughout the Indo- and Austro-Malayan 

 regions. It does not apparently occur west of Tenasserim, and is found as far east as 

 New Ireland (this is probably not really the eastern limit of the genus, but re pro sen ts 

 at present the limit of our knowledge),* Not more than some half dozen species are 

 described, one of which is alouo here included. Another species, however, /'. Godt., 

 is almost certainly found in the Peninsula, as Mr. Wallace t gives Malacca as a habitat of the 

 species. I have, however, been unable to find a Malaccas, specimen, and though Mr. Hewitson 

 subsequently acquired Mr. Wallace's Itkopaloccra, the species is not recorded from Malacca 

 in the posthumous Catalogue of the Hewitsonian collection. As it is also recorded by 

 Mr. Moore from Tenasserim, * the probability of its occurring in our region becomes greater. 



1. Pro t hoe caledonia. (Tab. XIII., fig. 9 <? .) 



XymphitUx rahjiloniu, Hewitson, Exot. Hutt. i. p. Hl>, t. 13, f. 8, I rl855). 

 Cfutnui's rniy*tt>nia t ButL Froc. Zool. Soc, 1865, p. G38. 

 f'n>r.foM: vnh-tl.mia, IhttL IW, Zoul. Soc. 1MG7, p. 



Nyinphali*? CnicJonw, Kirby, Syn. Cat. Diurn, Lep. ]«. 273, n. 58 (187b. 



Male. Anterior wings pale sulphur-yellow, with the base very pale bluish, and with rather more 

 than the apical half dark shining fuscous ; the inner margin of this blackish coloration commence* 

 narrowly at base of costa, and gradually widening obliquely crosses the cell a little beyond the middle, 



* Mr. Butler (Proc. Zool. Soc. 1867, p. 873) recommended that an African specie* generally known as Charm** herenir? 

 hIiouM also be rdaefcd in this gW0B& II has, however, structural pLuuliaritieB which have warranteil M. Mul»jlk< iBull. Sot. 

 Xoi L A? France* ISTt'i, p. 'JbO> in founding a new genus for its reception, m:nl consequently Allien cannot be considered, 

 as a habitat of Prothoc, 



f Trans- Ent. Boo. 18C9, p. 80. 



I Prnc. Zool. Sue. 1H7B, p. H:W. Mr. Moon?, in this paper {ibid. p. 854) gives ako the Malay Peninsula an a habitat 

 of P.frantrkit, which weis probably eopU-tl from Wullacr, a.s h< j po.s*i-Kson no specimen from that locality, ami, though he kindly 

 seroched for mo, could find do authority for the same in Lis no its. 



