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ANISODES. By L. B. Prout. 
dotilla, 
fansiina. 
flavispila. 
Jophosceles. 
nepheloscia. 
plotosphera. 
pauper. 
syntona. 
egens. 
celsa. 
prionodes. 
discifera. 
per script a. 
cede ns. 
ihermosaria. 
A. dotilla Swinh. (19 b). Easily known by the broad, dentate-margined wings, their delicate violet- 
grey tone and the white pupils of the celhspots. Khasis (type), Nagas, Penang and Hainan. 
A. faustina Prout (19 b). Extraordinarily like the largest, lightest (least irrorated) festiva, but with 
the <$ hindfemur red-tufted. Face white in lower half (in festiva red throughout). Cell-marks with an increase 
of red scaling. New Guinea, the type from Upper Setekwa River, Snow Mountains. 
A. flavispila Warr. (19 c). A rather simple, broad-winged species, of a pale colour, notably beneath, 
where the vinaceous-grey irroration is mostly wanting and the cell-spots and postmedian dots stand out strongly. 
On the upperside both cell-spots are ocellated, the orange filling of that of the hindwing a conspicuous feature; 
beneath, the relative size of the two is reversed. Hindfemur of the A tufted, tibia glabrous. North India 
and Burma, the type from the Khasis. The Malaysian forms and those from Hainan and Hong-kong may 
perhaps be separable racially by their smaller average size and slightly reduced cell-spot of the hindwing. - 
lopliosceles Turn, is definitely of a colder grey and with the cell-spot of the hindwing further reduced. Queens¬ 
land (type) and New Guinea. Single specimens from Sumba and Sumbawa await further material. 
A. nepheloscia Prout. Very near pauper (19 c). Palpus with rather longer terminal joint. Forewing 
with all the markings stronger, notably the black cell-dot and the olive-grey median shade and spots proximally 
to the subterminal; median shade less sinuous but more oblicpie, meeting the antemeclian dot. Hindwing 
with similar strengthening of the markings, the cell-spot larger than in normal pattper, the shade beyond it 
broad and strong. Underside also more sharply marked. Kako Tagalago, Buru, 1 A- — plotosphera subsp. 
nov. (19 c) is somewhat larger (42 mm) and paler, the markings above and beneath on the whole less heavy, 
though the proximal subterminal shading of both wings above is rather conspicuous, generally forming some 
roundish spots of grey irroration. The termen of the hindwing is slightly less convex than in pauper and its 
postmedian dots less out of alignment at the radials; these distinctions are foreshadowed in n. nepheloscia, where, 
however, the postmedian dots are less conspicuous. Paloe, W. Celebes, 1800—3700 feet (J. P. A. Kalis), 
a short series in the Tring Museum, the type from Lindoe, 3700 feet. As the Buru type remains unique, and 
is slightly rubbed distally, it is not certain, though probable, that the subspecies will remain tenable. 
A. pauper Bull. (19 c). Butler's type, the only specimen known from Malayta, has a diffuse median 
shade and the cell-dots scarcely developed, but is not in very good condition and I do not suppose differs 
racially from other Solomon Islands examples. Unless pauper sens. lat. (Bougainville, Tulagi, Malayta) has 
the proximal subterminal shade less developed and the underside less strongly marked, I cannot differentiate 
it from — syntona Meyr. (19 c), the New Guinea representative, very variable in the cell-spot of the hindwing, 
but not likely to be confused with any other Papuan Anisodes yet known in the structure-group. Type from 
Port Moresby. — egens Prout. Smaller (34—36 mm), slightly narrower-winged, of a more fleshy tone, cell- 
mark of hindwing reduced to a dot, terminal dots beneath not (as in pauper) connected by dark shading. Central 
Ceram, 6000 feet, only 2 $$ known. Possibly a separate species. — celsa Prout. Distinguished chiefly from 
p. pauper by its large size (45—48 mm). More rufescent, with somewhat denser dark irroration and darker 
costal edge. Forewing beneath with more extended fleshy suffusion. Abdomen above more purple-mixed. 
New Britain. 
A. prionodes Meyr. Expanse 40—45 mm. Pectinations very long. Hindfemoral tuft purplish. Both 
wings a little narrower than in pauper, termen of forewing more rounded, anteriorly slightly less oblique; 
of hindwing more crenate. Markings similar, median shade less oblique. Cell-mark of hindwing in type small, 
black, white-centred. Fiji. — ab. discifera nov. has the cell-spot large (diameter at least 2 mm), blackish. 
A. perscripta Warr. (19 c), described as an aberration of pallida, but showing the structural characters 
of the present group, is recognizable among the Himalayan species by its reddish irroration and sharply black 
markings, notably the zigzag median line. It may possibly, however, be a race of tliermosaria, longer-winged 
and less heavily marked. Khasis (type) and Sikkim. Areole wanting. A palpus with 3rd joint shortish-moderate. 
- cedens subsp. nov. Upperside with some of the dark dots reduced or weakened, particularly those on the 
teeth of the median line; forewing beneath with much increased rosy suffusion, though (as in p.'perscripta) 
the distal border remains narrowly whitish. Paloe, W. Celebes (J. P. A. Kalis): Gunong Tompoe, 3 AA (in¬ 
cluding the type); G. Rangkoenau, a worn A- Two $$ from G. Tompoe which probably belong here show 
much wider divergence from the type, having appreciably broader wings, the cell-spot of the hindwing some¬ 
what narrowed and with the black circumscription a little heavier, both wings beneath deeply roseate. 
A. Ihermosaria Walk. (19 c), presumably named from its “warm" ground-colour, will be readily re¬ 
cognized from our figure and the notes on the preceding. Borneo and the Mergui Archipelago and the Malay 
Peninsula; type from Sarawak. multipunctata Warr.. from British New Guinea (loc. typ.) and Vulcan 
