1, Prionens clemanthe. (Tab. XXIV., &g. 16 3\) 



Pi>™ dtmanthe l Doubleday, Aim. Nat. Hist, vol. xvih p. 23 (1846) ; Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc, 1866, p, 758 ; 



Druce, Proc. Zool. Soc 1878, p. 851, m L 

 Prumeri* demanthe, Wall, Trans, Ent, Soc. ser, tf. vol. W. p. 885, n, 4 (1807); Moore, Proc. ZooL Soc. 1878, 



p. 889, 



iurmke, Luc. Rov. Zool. 1852, p, 

 Pwm ^i/m, Fold. Eeise Nov. Lep. ii. p. 161, n. 131, L 25, f. 10, 11 (1865). 



Male. Wings above greyish-white ; anterior wings with the neuratiou (widely broadened towards 

 apex and outer margin) black, the costal and apical areas and outer margin powdered with blackish; 

 posterior wings with the neuration only blackened on outer third, the posterior margin blackish. Anterior 

 wings beneath as above, the cell either immaculate as in the specimen figured, or sometimes containing 

 two or three longitudinal blackish lines ; posterior wings with the whole of the neuration black, a bright 

 red basal spot, the whole disk yellow, the apex and the area beyond cell between the upper subcostal 

 and the second median nervules greyish* white, the outer margin broadly blackish towards anal angle, 

 sometimes con tinned to apes by a narrow submarginal fascia, which is absent in the specimen figured, 

 Body above more or less concolorous with wings ; thorax beneath and legs blackish ; abdomen beneath 

 greyish white. 



Exp, wings, J , 70 to 85 millim. 



Hab.— Continental India ; Bengal (Moore). —Burma ; Moulmem (Keldorh— Ti'iutHst-rim ; Ilcmngduran 

 source, Nuthoung to Pnboga (Limborg — Moore i • — Malay Peninsula ; Province Wehesley (coll, Dist.) , Perak 

 (Kunstler — Caic. Mns.) ; Malacca (Biggs — coll. Dist.). — Borneo (Druce). 



The females of this genus are exceedingly scarce, and I have not seen that of this 

 species. 



Genus CAXOPSILIA. 



Catojmim, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 98 (1810) ; Butl. Lep. Exot. p, 154 (187B* ; Moore, Lep. Ceyh vol. i. 



p. 121 (1881). 

 Murtia, lliibn. Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 98 (181G;. 

 L'allitfryis. Trim, (nec Boisd.), Bfcwp* Afr. Ausir, p. 0 ptWl). 



Anterior wings subtriangular ; costal margin arched and convex, outer margin oblique, inner margin 

 slightly sinuatSk Costal nervure arched and extending beyond middle of costal margin ; first subcostal 

 nervule emitted at about middle of cell, second from near end of cell, third and fourth bifurcating at about 

 two-thirds the length of third, fifth bifurcating from third at about one-third beyond cell ; disco- cellular 

 nervules oblique, both somewhat concavely bent inwardly ; discoidal nervule emitted from about their 

 middle ; first and second median nervules with their bases slightly nearer to each other than those of 

 second and third. Posterior wings broadly subovate, costal and outer margins convex, the abdominal 

 margins obliquely divergent at anal angles. Costal nervure arched and not quite reaching apex of wing, 

 subcostal nervules bifurcating at about one -fourth before end of cell, disco-cellular a oblique, the lowermost 

 the longest and slightly bent inwardly ; upper median nervule from end of cell, the bases of the first and 

 second about one-fourth nearer together than those of second and third ; subinediau nervure nearly 

 straight, very slightly curved; internal nervure slightly curved. Body stout, prouotum hairy; palpi 

 porrect, projecting one- third beyond the head, second joint laterally compressed; legs slender; antennae 

 gradually thickened into an apical club, which is truncate at tip. 



Male with a tuft of silky hairs near base of inner margin of anterior wings, and with a glandular 

 patch of raised scales above the subcostal nervure of the posterior wings. 



