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RHINO PAL PA. By H. Fruhstorfer. 
websteri. M. websteri Sm. is the only known form of Mynes lacking the red basal spot on the hindwing, which is 
replaced by a long, yellow snbbasal stripe parallel to the costal vein. In ? the upper surface is as in yeoffroyi 
blue-green, on the forewing the distal border black, broader at the apex than at the inner angle. The hindwings 
are marked as in Eriboea hebe (134b), with a narrow terminal border and behind this with from three to live 
crescent-shaped intranerval spots accompanied by a few dots. The under surface is very characteristic: The fore¬ 
wing resembles that of Pap. antiphates (40 b, c), with five black longitudinal stripes growing narrower anally, upon 
a white ground. Hindwing black with a clay-yellow apical and subanal patch, between which four blue eye- 
spots. Behind the cell a yellow line imitating the shape of a hammer. The figure which Smith gave us of 
the ? has been corrected by Hagen. The cd is smaller in size, having beneath the black Papilio-stripes broader 
and the longitudinal lines on the hindwing somewhat lighter in colour and more conspicuous. The submargi- 
nal band on which the blue spots are placed, is of a metallic golden colour. Very scarce. Hagen found but 
one pair, wheras 1 have only seen one cf in the Thiele coll., Berlin. It is known so far only from the Sattelberg. 
katharitm. M. katharina Ribbe, the smallest species of the genus, resembles both above and beneath Sijrnbr. hippalus 
Fldr. (121 e) to which it also corresponds in size. This species is interesting, because the intramedian spot 
on the forewing as well as the basal patch on the under surface of the hindwing are yellow, which is also the 
colour of the subanal band on the hindwing; otherwise the design of S. hippalus recurs in the shape of white 
spots on the forewing and of a more circular discal area on the hindwing. Described from Neu-Pommern; 
Dr. Pagenstecher reports it also from Neu-Hannover whence it came to the Tring Museum. 
25. Genus: Itliinopalpa Flclr. 
In this genus which contains only one species, the palpi are uncommonly long, densely covered with 
scales and widely diverging at the ends. The third subcostal nervule stands much closer to the fourth than to 
the end of the cell, arising in a straight line. The cells are both on forewing and hindwing completely open. 
The lower radial of the hindwing is at its origin slightly curved; the precostal is single, straight, but slightly 
bent over at the end. The hindwings are at the inner margin between the submedian vein and the first median 
branch broadly projecting, and form at the lower radial a long, sharp-pointed tail; the forewings are at the 
apex broadly produced and angular, all of which gives the only species of this genus among all the other 
Nymphalids of southern Asia a most characteristic appearance. The ? always surpasses the cf in size and is 
dimorphic. Extends from Burmah throughout the Macromalavan Islands to the Philippines and Celebes. Even 
small distances are sufficient to produce changes; thus we find in eastern Java a form which differs from that found 
in the western portion of the island. They inhabit the lower plains, not ascending beyond the foot-hills, and 
are neither in Java nor in Sumatra seen at elevations exceeding 2900 ft. The sexual organs which are sharp¬ 
ly differentiated, bear no relation either to Yoma (with which it agrees as to neuration) or to Cynthia (which 
it closely approaches in the larval state). Uncus cleft, the valve broad, open anteriorly, covered with fine 
bristles, slightly rounded and curved outward in the shape of a lamp-chimney longitudinally cut in two. Penis 
distally slender, very sharp, inserted in a short sheath, the lobes of which are triangular in shape and provided 
both interiorly and ventrally with a tooth-like appendage. The uncus is bipartite as in the genera Mynes and 
Kallima, with which however Rhinopalpa has no connection with regard to structure. Its flight is easy, rapid but 
short-stroked. The cfcf often alight upon dried-up twigs near (he ground, on manure and on the walls of houses. 
Otherwise they prefer the shade, frequenting wood-roads and fruit-orchards. ?$ very rare. The larva which was 
discovered by Dr. Piepers represents exactly the type of the larva of Cynthia and lives on Conocephalus sua- 
veolens Blainw.; its colour is alternately light and dark brown, with very finely-branched spines curving forward 
upon each segment, the head black with very long, branching horns of the same colour. Dr. Piepers has proposed 
to figure the early stages of this as well as of other species discovered by him in his work ..The Rhopalocera of Java". 
Rh. polynice splits in the Macromalayan Region into a series of insular and local forms. Particularly 
the $ is subject to geographical variation, whereas the cfcd vary but little. In the Philippines the ?? assume 
an extreme melanotic attire, resembling the cfcf. To what extent this variation may be carried is shown in 
our figures 113 b and c. The under surface is in a very characteristic manner marked with a submarginal 
row of six connected ocelli on the forewing and five on the hindwing. Both sexes have in common an 
always recurring white spot over the submedian of the forewing, which may be square (Macromalayan Islands) 
or crescent-shaped (Celebes); the cfcT, display moreover fulvous subanal patches, which occasionally appear also 
birmana. proximally to the ocelli in the shape of short bands, but are hardly ever found in ??. — birmana Fruhst ., the 
most northern branch (type from Lower Burmah); some times it is found in Assam as far as the Naga Hills; 
but in the Karen Hills as well as in the Margui Archipelago it is exceedingly rare. The variability of cf and 
? may have something to do with the sharply-defined seasons peculiar to Burmah. My type corresponds to 
Bingham’s figure (Fauna Indica, pi. 10, fig. 75) in the greatly extended distal portion which has a much greater 
width at the apex than at the anal angle, whereas Moore (in Lepidoptera Indica pi. 327) figures a cf, presum¬ 
ably belonging to the dry-season, with a much more insignificant black border. Also the ? differs, according 
to Moore, from all the other forms in that on the forewing the terminal border is barely half as broad and at 
the anal angle even divided by a yellow stripe. The under side surprises by its very pale colour, having the 
eudoxia. median area pale yellow, proximally bordered with an intense pale gray-violet. — eudoxia Guer. (= fulva Fldr.) is 
