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Hab. — Malay Peninsula ; Penan g ; Province Welle Bley (colls. Dist and Saner) ; Sungei Ujong {Dnm- 

 fovd — coll. Dist.); Malacca (Pinwill — Brit, Hub,) ; Singapore (Kerr — coll. Dint.) — Banca.* — BOliton (Godm. 

 and Salv.) — Sumatra (Forbes — coll. Diet.) — Java (coll. Godm. & Salv.) — Borneo (coll. Dist.) j Labuan 

 (Collhigwood). — Celebes (ITopffer). — Philippines (coll. Godm. & Salv.); Luzon (Erichson). 



In Labuan Mr. Collingwood observed this species frequenting a l * patch of sandy sea- 

 shore," and lie remarks that when alighting upon it, although it matched the sand well in 

 colour, it was not difficult to secure."! Its habits, however, are not exclusively littoral, and it 

 seems generally distributed over the areas in which it is found. 



2. Cynthia cantori. { (Tab. X., tig. 5 £ .) 



Ct/nthift Canton, Distant, Ann. <t Mag. Nat, Hist. ser. 5, vol. x,, p. 406 (1&82). 



Male. Closely allied in colour and markings to the preceding species, Hi deume, Erichs,, from which 

 it differs above on the anterior wings by the more angulated markings in the ceil, and by the central 

 transverse fuscous fascia being placed much nearer to the apes of cell, whilst on the posterior wings this 

 fascia is seen to be abruptly broken <md drtfrctrd nmr thr l»nn:s nf thr first and ttecoml median mrrnUn ; on 

 the under surface this fracture or angulation appears much more distinctly ; the basal curved line which 

 crosses the cell in C. detoue is also broken and looped in C. ran tori. 



Exp. wings, $ G8 millim* 



Hab.— Malay Peninsula ; Province Wellesley (coll. Dist.). 



I have not as yet received a second specimen of this species, nor have I seen its female, 

 which will, however, almost certainly prove to be somewhat like the female of 0. deione, with 

 the difference of marking detailed above as found in the other sex. 



Fam. ERYCINIDzE. | 



ErytitiUhr, Swain&on, Phil. Mag, kci\ '2, vol. i. p. 187 (1827); West wood. 



Gen. Diurn. Lep. p. 415 (1851) ; Bates, Journ. Entomol. vol. i. 

 p.220(lB(U|; ili. vol. iu p. 17till«G4|. 

 L*moniid*K t Kirby, Cat. Diurn. Lep. p. 282 (1871); Moore, Lep. Coy I. i. 



p. G7 (1881); Murslu A ])a Xie. Butt. 1ml. Burm. & Ceyl. vol. i. 



p. 18 (1882), 



Kntriuina, Snellen, Lep. v. Midden -Sumatra, p. 20 i Leiden, 1880), 



Front legB perfect in the female, in the male imperfect, the tarsi 

 consisting of one or two joints only, and spineless. 



Pupa either suspended freely by the tail, as in the Subfara. Fl0 , 47.1-Anterior lepi ("bowing tar*i) 



at Aliigitra l;<i HM tn b > , 



* Collected by M, Teysmann (Pet. Nouv. Eut. 1674, p. 404). \ 4 Iiamblee of a Naturalist/ p. 183. 



I This species is named after the lute l>r. Cantor, the well-known Malayan zoologist, whose catalogues of the 

 uiararaalB, reptiles, and liwhen belonging to the Malay Peninsula and Islands wore some of the fir*t real contributions to 

 a knowledge of the fauna. 



§ The name of this family was founded on that of Erycina^ proposed by Fabrieius in 1807 for a genua of Ithopalocera, 

 hut previously used by Lamarck in 1805 for a genus of MoUtttltH. The generic mime, therefore, as fnr an Itbopaloeera in 

 concerned, is* preoccupied and falls. Tho question now arises whether the family name should stand, founded on a generic 

 name not rightfully appertaining to the Lnsoeta? The decision arrived at hero, iu favour of that course, is bused on the desire 

 for uniformity, find the uncertain way in which the two names have been used by the authors enumerated above in connection 

 with tho name Lvmoniidtr. Thus Mr. Kirby founded the name imtpra), but in his lepidopteral contribution to our 'Zoological 

 Record* lie reverts to that of " Kryeinida." Mr, Moore uses the name •» Lemon iidtt" in 1K81 \*ttpra). but in the following 

 yi-ur iProc. Zonl. Ki>c 1WH'>, p. he .substitutes that of " Eryrinida" whilst tliough Mr. tie Nicevillc, in association with 

 Mr. Wood -Mason I J, A. S. Ilentjl. vol. li. pU 11. p. 10 (1882), uses the last-mentioned name, in the same year, associated with 

 Major Marshall (supra\ % he advocates that of Lemon it die. 



December, 1883* 3 b 



