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IlflOPA LOCERA MALA YANA. 



The following species is included here with some doubt. A male specimen, which is 

 figured, and considered as collected iu the Malay Peninsula, is the only authority I have for 

 its presence in this fauna. Further and corroborative information is therefore desiderated. 



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Euthalia lubentina. (Tab. XTV\ ? fig, 4 df .) 



Pa/^u Lubmtintt, Cramer, Pap. Ex. ii. t. 155, C, D (1770) ; Don. Ins. China, t. 36, f. 8 (1709 ) ; FAbr. 8p. 



Ins. p. 91, n. 403 fl781) ; Mant. Ins. p. 19, n. 486 (1787); Ent. Syst. iii. p. 121, n. 370 (1798). 

 XynyhaUi lAtfwiitina, Godt. Euc. Meth. ix. p. 400, n. 172 (1828). 



Euthalia Luhmtina, Hiibn. Verz. bek. Sckmett. p. 41 (1816) ; Moore, Lep. Ceyl. vol. L p. 81, t. 10, f. 1^(1881). 

 Attaint Lubentina, Horsf. & Moore, Cat. Lep. Mub. E JLC. i. p. IBS, n, 379 (1857); Baft Cat. Fabr. Lep. p. 88, 

 n, 1 (1869). 



Male. Closely resembling the male K. adonh (Tab. XIX., f. 10), but differing in the form of the 

 wings, which are broader, less angularly attenuated, and the anal angle of the posterior wings not 

 elongate! y produced, as in that species; on the upper surface thu white spot in the cell is absent or 

 only faintly indicated; beneatb the markings are very similar. 



Female. Above with the anterior wings closely resembling those of female E» adonia (Tab. XIX., 

 f. 11 r, posit riar wings, however, without the broad central white fascia of that species, and resembling 

 those of its. own male. Beneath the anterior wings are as above, the posterior wings as in male. 



Exp. wings, J 71 millim.; 2 62 to 75 milliin. 



Hab.— Continental India; Bengal (Moore); near Cachar (coll. Dist.) ; Bombay (Leith— coll. Dist.)— 

 Ceylon (coll. Moore and Brit. Mus.} — Malay Peninsula ? 



The larva and pupa of this species, from drawings made by Mr. A. Grote, are figured by 

 HorsSeld and Moore,* and from drawings of the Bros* do Alwis in Moore's Lepidoptera of 

 Ceylon. According to Mr. Grote the larva feeds upon "Loranthus."t 



Genus TANAECIA. 



Tami'da, Butler, Proc. Zool. Soe. 1868, p. 610, 



In general form ami neuration this genus resembles Rnth<dia, differing chiefly in the following 

 characters : — the middle disco -cellular nervule of the anterior wing is only moderately recurved ; the first 

 sulwostal nervule of the posterior wings is emitted at a greater distance from the base of the subcostal 

 nervure tbau in Entlinliu, ami the second subcostal has its origin ft little beyond. The palpi have a slender 

 bristle-like terminal joint varying in different specieB. 



This genus is ranch smaller in extent than Euthalia, and likewise has a different 

 distribution, for whereas that genus may be said to possess its head- quarters in North-Eastern 

 India, Tana'ecia is almost confined to the Indo-Malayan region, and is apparently absent from 

 Coutiuetital India and Ceylon, though found iu the Andaman Islands. 



It is extremely difficult in this geuus — particularly iu that portion of it which is found in 

 the Malay Peninsula— to decide in several cases, and from cabinet specimens or figures alone, 

 whether the term " species'' or "variety" should be more correctly used, I have therefore, in 

 some cases, kept the distinct forms in specific isolation, leaving the ultimate decision to the 



* Cat. Lep, Mus. L!,I.C. i. t. 1% f. 14, 14 a. 



t IbiJ. p. 189. 



