1889.] W. Dohorty — Certain Lycseuidee from Lower Tenasserim. 413 



unci stont, tlie clasps broad and truncate. A careful examination will 

 probably result in the separation of the Ajphnmiis and Loxura groups 

 from these under the name Aphwvinw. 



The small subfamily of Deudorigince is characterised in the male by 

 the lower organ of the prehensors, the clasps or liarpagones, being 

 aborted and functionless, adhering to the intromittent organ. The ab- 

 domen of the female is pointed, and ends in a pair of long ovipositors. 

 The egg is very small, green, covered with very numerous tetragonal 

 spaces, bordered by raised transparent lines, very delicately carved, 

 with little button-like tubercles at their intersection. The liindwing 

 has always a veiy prominent anal lobe, a single tail at the end of the 

 lower median, and a distinct angle at the end of the middle median vein. 

 Beudorix and its allies belong here, as well as Araotes* and Billion. The 

 genera Bindahara and Lehera, which have also only one tail, can scarcely 

 bo included in any definition of the subfamily, nor Neomyrina, which has 

 a very Dcudorix-liko egg. 



The Poritino} come near the Aplinceus group of the Theclince, I be- 

 lieve, the reticulations being hexagonal. On account of their relations 

 with the Lenioniadco they might be placed at the head of the family. 

 They can be distinguished by the joined costal and first subcostal veins 

 of the forewings, a character occurring in Sithon, in many Lycceninw, 

 and also, I observe, in a remarkable insect described as HypolycKua libna 

 and Luijania andcrsun ii, Moore, from Mergui, which may possibly connect 

 Toritia with the Lyccenince. I have described the egg of Porilia in a 

 former article. The base is quadrate, twice as long as wide, there is a 

 square apex, two square sloping sides, and two vertical rhomboid ones. 



The LyacenincB are distinguished by their decidedly concave eggs, 

 broadest above the middle. The reticulations are often irregular, and 

 vary greatly on different parts of the surface. Those on the sides con- 

 sist of small white knobs constricted at the base, from which spring 

 either four or six elevated lines, forming quadrangles or triangles. In 

 Catopoocilma the spaces are hexagonal, and in Semanga irregular. I 

 include these genera here with much doubt ; they are obviously transi- 

 tional to the Theolince. The typical Lyccena group, containing the great 

 majority of the subfamily, has hairy eyes, though the hairs are few and 

 scattered in Gaslalius and Zizera. The Pithecops group consists of 

 naked-eyed genera, of which the eggs of Megisha and Pithecops have 

 tetragonal spaces, and NcopUhecops triangular. 



* Arantes, gen. nov. nearest Sithon, hub with an additional subcostal vein in the 

 forcwing. Tlie middle discoeellular is obaolesoent (distinct in Deudorix and its 

 allies), the first subcostal tonclies the costal vein (nuitcd with it in Sithon, quito 

 separate in the other I)eu(Zoriiyift<Ji), and there is but one tail (two iu Bit{it«»d«, in 

 which the typo-species lapilhis was placed by Mr. Distant). 



