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Hebumoiti Olaucippe, Horef, & Moore, Cat, Lep. Mas. E. I, C, vol. i, p. GO, ti. 105 ; Moore, Proc. Zool. 



Soc. 1878, p. 837 ; Lep. Ceyl. vol. i. p. 127, L 49, f. 1, 1«, b (1881 1 ; Snell. Tijd. Eut. six. p. 17, 

 n, 62 (187G) ; Lep. v. Midd. Sum, p, 23, n. 1 (1880) ; But!, Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2, ZooL voL i. p. 551, 

 n. 1 (1877); De Nie. J. A. S- Bung. vol. t., p. 52, u. 57 1,1881 1 ; Ibid. vol. IL £ 64 (1882) ; AurivilL 

 Eougl. av. vet. Acad. Hand], Band 10, no. 5 f pp. 5S-4 (1882). 



Male. Wings above creamy-white, with n very faint pale greenish tinge; anterior wings with the 

 basal half of costal area speckled with dark fuscous ; apex (crossing upper end of cell and more or less 

 oblique to near outer angle) blackish, containing six lurgu and i-hm^ttv nmtiguiMis reddish-orange spots, 

 only divided by the nervules, the second, third, fourth and fifth containing a blackish snot near their 

 apices, the sixth shortest and inwardly blending with the blackish ground colour, the first narrowest, and 

 the first and second preceded at their base by a small reddish spot of the same hue situate hi upper 

 extremity of cell ; posterior wings with a few marginal blackish snots (placed on the apices of the uervules) 

 on the apical half of wing. Anterior wings beneath creamy-white, the black apical area above mottled 

 pale brownish beneath; posterior wings mottled pale brownish, with darker reticulations and with an 

 oblique fuscous lino passing through centre of cell and terminating on outer margin between the tliseoidal 

 and upper median nervules. Body above and abdnnn. ii beneath pale greenish, anterior collar of pronotum 

 and head pale brownish ; thorax beneath and legs more or less eoncolorous with w T ings ; legs streaked with 

 brownish. 



Female. Resembling the male, but the anterior wings above with the creamy-white having a more 

 decided pole greenish tinge, the blackish spots at the apices of the reddish- orange spots larger ; posterior 

 wings with a marginal and subinarginal series of large dark fuscous spots, the marginal series being more 

 or less continent. Wings beneath as iu male. 



Exp, wings, # and ? , 90 to 100 millim. 



Hab. — Continental India ; Sikkim (de Niceville) ; Darjeeling, Madras (coll. Diet.). — Ceylon (Thwaites — 

 coll. Disk). — Tenasserim; Houngduran Source (Limborg— Moore). — Malay Peninsula; Perak (Kiiust. — 

 Calc. Mus. ; coll. Godfery) ; Malacca (Pin will— Brit. Mus.) ; Sumatra (Snellen).— Java (Korsfield) ; Batavia 

 (Snellen). 



Mr. de Niceville writes of this species that " it has a wry rapid flight; when settling ou a 

 flower it is very inconspicuous, the mottled hind wing and the apex of the fore wing, which is 

 also much mottled and which alone is left uncovered by the hind wing, render it difficult to be 

 seen on account of its close resemblance to a dead leaf." * 



In Java, according to Dr. Horsiield, the larva feeds " on a species of Gapparis, 

 distinguished by the native name Wanwannan." f In Ceylon the same food-plant is recorded 

 by Dr, Thwaites. { 



The larva and pupa have been already figured in this work (antea, p. 283, figs, 91, 92). 



Genus NEPHEKONIA. 



Stphtnmia, Butler, Cist. Ent. vol. i. pp. 38, 58 {1870i; Moore, Lep. Ceyl. vol. i. p. 188 (1881 |. 

 FflMb, Horsf, Cat. Lep. E.I.C. p. 180 (1829), 

 Kronia (part), Doubh Gen, Dium. Lep. p. 04 (1847). § 



Anterior mugs subtriangulo-r, costal margin arched and convex, outer margin generally more or less 

 concave (sometimes scarcely discernible), inner margin slightly sinuate. Costal nervure extending to 



* J. A. S. Beng. vol. l, p. 53 (1881). | Cat. Lep. E.I. C. p. 1U1. j Moore's Lep. Ceyl. vol. i. p. 



§ Mr. Moore (Lep, Ceyl. vol. i. p. 188) (fives Eronia {part), Bubduv&l, a» fi Hj'souyiu of this genus. This, however, 

 ia a elip, as Boisdurul a type, and only Rpeciea given, ia the E. tkodora, Htibn., which lb given by Mr. Butler us the type uf that 

 genus and not included in hi a NcpJicronia. 



