CUPITHA; GEHENNA; PIRDANA. By Dr. A. Seitz. 
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48. Genus: Cupitlia Mr. 
Like the last group of the preceding genus, also the only species of this genus is so closely allied in the 
colouring to the yellow and black Telicota, particularly T. gola (p. 1077, pi. 170 i), that the living insects are 
difficult to discern. Characterised by a large oval vesicle near the base of the hindwing, which is particularly 
visible beneath and must be squeezed, if one wishes to stretch the insect in a proper way. On the forewing 
beneath a light-coloured, somewhat glossy area corresponds to this vesicle. 
C. purreea Mr. - - tympanifera Mr.). The type originates from Sikkim and is also reported quite purreea. 
similarly from Indo-China (Pegu). The other races that were denominated neither differ essentially from the 
type. — verruca Mab. (174 d) which we figure from a specimen determined by the author, from the Philippines, verruca. 
whereas the description is said to refer to a specimen from Nias, shows rather narrow yellow median bands 
above, whereas typical specimens exhibit much less black. — alara Fruhst., from Celebes and Palawan, which alar a. 
hardly deserves a special denomination, shows still more black above than even the Javanese form lycorias lycorias. 
Mab. does, in which particularly the central spot of the hindwing is much smaller. 
49. Genus: Gehenna Wts. 
This genus being allied, to the Halpe is very little known, distinguished by the scent-organ of the 
On the forewing beneath there is at the base a thickening across which a dense tuft of long hair is laid, sprout¬ 
ing forth at the median. Three species are known, recalling some Parnara in the exterior habitus. The genus 
is also apparently allied to the palearctic Actinor radians Vol. I, p. 352). 
G. angulifera Elw. & Edw. (174 e) is on both sides dark brown, the under surface somewhat paler, angulifera. 
Above around the lower cell-angle 3 tiny white spots, the lowest of which is somewhat comma-shaped. Beneath 
the small spots of the fore wing are dull yellowish, and the hindwing shows a dark punctiform spot in the cell 
and an arcuate postmedian row of such spots. 28 mm; from Mindoro. 
G. abima Hew., from Macassar, is unknown to me; here the spot in the cell of the forewing is said to abima. 
be double and the hindwing beneath to exhibit 5 dark spots. 
G. graeae Nic., from North-East Sumatra is neither known to me; it differs from the preceding species graeae. 
in the peculiar base of the costal vein from the upper edge of the cell in the hindwing in the shape of a tuning- 
fork; above near the base a narrow oblique oval scent-stripe. The under surface is red-brown without markings, 
strewn with golden yellow scales. North-East Sumatra. 
G. palawanica Strd. (173 d) shows the 4 yellow cliscal spots arranged almost in a quadrangle, with palawanica. 
very tiny subapical spots being hardly visible without a magnifying glass; from Palawan. 
50. Genus: Pirdana Dist. 
All the forms belonging hereto exhibit a bright green under surface und a yellow anal margin of the 
hindwing. Above they are mostly uni-coloured dark brown without any marking, only the distal margin of 
the hindwing being yellow. They are rather large, swiftly flying lepidoptera with pointed wings, all of them 
exhibiting a certain resemblance to Matapa celsina (p. 1067) in the colouring, though they are at once distin¬ 
guishable by the absence of the stigma being distinct in celsina. The larvae, as far as they are known, 
are green with a brown, grotesquely marked head and black, angularly defined transverse spots across the 
dorsum, which are parted by the green dorsal line. The imagines are not very rare. 
P. hyela Hew. (174 e). The blackish-brown body and the proximal portions of the wings exhibit a green hyela. 
reflection; the yellow anal margin of the hindwing is proximad rather straightly cut off, or but very slightly 
indented in the centre. Beneath there are between the bright green veins blackish patches in the areas; Java. 
Specimens from the east of the island ( scanda Fruhst.) are told to he somewhat smaller und more narrowly 
margined with yellow. — sargotl Mab., from Celebes, differs from Javanese specimens in the broader and longer sargon. 
yellow margin of the anal portion of the hindwing. — rudolphi Elw. & Nic. (174 e) is the continental form rudolphi. 
flying in Malacca and in Tenasserim and Tovoy, with a very much broader anal portion of the hindwing, 
being besides proximad very irregularly defined. — Larva green, on each segment a broad black transverse 
spot connected with the others by a broad dorsal band which is crossed by a light dorsal line. Head brown 
peculiarly marked with black spots and small stripes; the last segment is above brown, stigmata white. On 
Dracaena and Cordyline rumphii. — The imagines preferably fly towards evening, being well protected in the 
foliage by their colour and not rare in most of the districts. 
