IUIOPALOCERA MALA YANA . 



posticarum bis refracta aurantiacis albo cinctis, anticis extus fulvescentibus, poeticiti macula subcOBtali 

 concolore binisque analibus atris, exteriors in areola fulva. J 



M Colore Theclis uuibusdain baud absimilis." 



Exp. wings,* 30 millim. 



Hab. — Xieobar Islands; Naukouri, Katschall (Wood-Mas. & de Nic). — Malay Peninsula ; Malacca 7 

 (Feld,) ; Singapore (coll. He wits.). 



There seems little doubt that this species is rightly placed in the genus Hypohjccena, 

 though I have not examined a specimen. Hewitson's figure of 1L thedmdes gives a congeneric 

 impression, whilst the structural remarks 1 added by Folder emphasise that view. 



Genus HtAOTA. 

 Iraota, Moore, Lep. Ceyl. vol. i. p. 101 (1881). 



Anterior wings subtriangular ; costal margin arched at base and then obliquely continued to apex, 

 wbich is subacute; exterior margin moderately convex and sligbtly waved; inner margin slightly 

 concavely sinuate. Costal nervure curved, terminating nearly opposite end of cell; first subcostal 

 nervule emitted near middle of cell, second about midway between first and third, third emitted 

 at about the same distance from end of cell as its base is from that of second, third and fourth 

 bifurcating a little beyond middle of third; first and second median nervnles emitting rather more 

 than one-third nearer together than second and third. Posterior wings short and broad; costal 

 margin obliquely convex to apex ; posterior margin convexly rounded, with a slender tail-like 

 appendage at apex of submedian nervure in the male, and with an additional and similar appendage 

 at upex of lower median nervule in the female ; anal angle lobately produced, and a somewhat prominent 

 angulation at apex of second median nervule. Costal nervure arched at base and extending to apex; 

 snbcoBtal nervules bifurcating at about one-third before end of cell ; first and second median ncrvulea 

 emitted close together near end of cell ; third at about one-third before end of cell. Body robust ; palpi 

 uorreet, second joint about reaching apex of head, third joint long and slender ; legs robust; antenme 

 with a long and gradually formed apical club. 



The male, as described by Hr, Moore, possesses " a tuft of hair on underside of posterior 

 margin*' of anterior wings, and also e *a slightly indicated glandular space between the base of 

 costal and subcostal veins*' of posterior wings." 



This genus is of moderate extent, and is recorded from North-Eastern India, Ceylon, 

 the Malay Peninsula, Java, Borneo, and the Philippine Islands. It is probably to be found 

 throughout the true Indo-Malayan region, 



L Iraota boswelliana, + n. sp. (Tab. XXII., fig. 23 ? .} 



Male, Wings above dark fuscous ; anterior wmigs with a large patch of dark bluish scales occupying 

 base of cell and extending along inner half, but not reaching outer margin ; posterior wings with a very 

 large and similar dork bluish patch occupying the whole discal area ; tail-like appendage and the 



+ TaJten from Howitaon 4 fi figure. 



t 11 Species hmc at ejus affini* M. rrylus, Godt. t efc Sipylu*, Fold., a Myrijtis palporinn artioulo sec undo capitc breviore, 

 tcrtio lorigo aciculari arcnalu autennifuiue gmciliLer clnvatis rtscediint*'* 



J In naming this species I have taken a hint from llr. Johnson, The great lexicographer once remarked to his futture 

 biographer, apropos of a moth which ilnitured into a caudle, iL That creature was its own tormentor, and 1 believe its name 

 was Boswell, This ie probably the wholo condensed "entomological" observation of Dr. Johnson, and as such may be 

 remembered. 



