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PROBLEPSIS. By L. B. Protit. 
emphyla. 
transposita. 
vulgaris. 
attenuata. 
auriculifera. 
albidior. 
m atsumurai. 
magna. 
exanimata. 
deliaria. 
korinchiana. 
eucircota. 
paredra. 
P. emphyla sp. n. (19 k). In its violet-grey tone and diffuse shade very suggestive, at first sight, of the 
preceding form; not quite so dark. Forewing with the curved outer band broad and dark, as distally placed 
as in transposita; ocellus broad, its longitudinal black lines on an average longer than in achlyobathra, its boun¬ 
dary almost interrupted posteriorly (in this also more as in transposita). Hindwing with the dark median shade 
broad, the metallic postmedian streak straightish, somewhat oblique. W. Celebes: G. Rangkoenau, Paloe, 
900 feet (J. P. A. Kalis), many 33 and 1 $ in the Tring Museum. 
P. transposita Warr. (20 a). Structure about as in achlyobathra, which see for the differentiation. $ 
concolorous with 3 ■ British New Guinea. 
P. vulgaris Butl. ( = deliaria Walk, nec Guen., ocellata Moore nec Friv., delphiaria Hmps. nec Guen.) 
(20 a) is now a well-known species, notwithstanding the synonymic entanglements of the earlier authors. From 
deliaria (20 a), the only species wherewith there was any excuse at all for confounding it, it differs in its gener¬ 
ally smaller size, the narrower ocellus of the forewing (generally concave on its proximal side) and the black 
scaling on it proximally. Moreover the pectinations are a little longer and the tarsus shorter. Described from 
Kangra; widely distributed in India and extending to Malaya, Annam, Tonkin, Hainan and S. China and 
even a part of Szechuan (see Suppl.-Vol. 4, p. 33). — ab. attenuata Warr., from Merkara, S. India, is a slight 
and unimportant aberration with the posterior part of the median fascia complete and broad. — ab. (?) auri¬ 
culifera Warr., founded on a bred 3 and $ from Singapore, is somewhat more doubtful, as the pectinations 
of the 3 look a trifle shorter before they break up into the fascicles of cilia, in which those of typical vulgaris 
also terminate. In the markings I can see nothing altogether distinctive and their small size may well be a 
result of breeding, but similar specimens from Annam and Hainan are also small. 
P. albidior Warr. (Supp.-Vol. 4, pi. 4f). This also was much confused by previous writers and even 
in Vol. 4 (p. 50) I treated it as a deliaria form. A correction has been made in the supplement to that volume 
(p. 33). The j)ectinations in albidior 3 (unless, indeed, it has been wrongly mated — the originals were 2 $$ 
from Kulu) are about 3 times the diameter of the shaft, in deliaria less (about 2); ocellus of the forewing more 
circular, showing evidently a close affinity with magna, which may perhaps be a race of it. Besides N. India, 
albidior inhabits S. China and S. Japan, perhaps also Borneo. The Ichang $ which Warren associated with 
it (see Vol. 4, p. 50) probably belonged to eucircota Prout. matsumurai subsp. nov. is a smaller paler form, 
apparently racial on the Riu-Kiu Islands. Certainly the form figured by Matsitmttra (Ins. Mats. Vol. 4. 
pi. 2, f. 20) as deliaria. A pair from Okinawa (Tring Museum). 
P. magna Warr. (20 a). On an average larger than candidior. Forewing with cell-spot nearly always 
larger in proportion; a grey streak from it to hindmargin; silvery irroration proximally. Hindwing with ocellus 
enlarged, but ill-defined. Mountains of New Guinea, the type from Angabunga River. 
P. exanimata Prout (20 a). Structure about as in albidior and magna, or with the pectinations a little 
longer. Wings white, without the brownish suffusions of its near allies (about as in sancta or the African Pro- 
blepsis). Ocellus of forewing rather less large and regular than in albidior; etc., etc. Java, the type series from 
the east of that country. 
P. deliaria Guen. (20 a). Intermediate between albidior and vulgaris; comparative notes have already 
been given. Though the name has been so often misajiplied, it is really by no means common; 1 have seen it 
only from Ceylon, S. India and Bombay. 
P. korinchiana Pothsch. (20 a). Pectinations shorter than in any of the preceding, only about as long 
as the diameter of the shaft. It also recalls eucircota in the roundness of the ocellus (forewing), but this has a 
good deal of black scaling just inside the orb thereof and the orb itself is more fuscous than light-brown; hind- 
tarsus of 3 less extremely short. S. W. Sumatra. 
P. eucircota Prout (Vol. 4, pi. 7 b). Smaller than korinchiana (20 a), the pectinations at least as short, 
perhaps scarcely equalling in length the greatest diameter of the shaft. Hindtarsus of the <3 extremely short, 
scarcely *4 as l° n g as the strongly dilated tibia. Ocellus of forewing rounded, containing black marks only 
before and behind the base of the 1st median, the anterior (and larger) one reaching the 3rd radial. Ocellus 
of hindwing also broad, but much less circular than that of forewing. Distributed in China: Shanghai (loc. 
typ.), Ningpo, Ichang, Chang-yang and Szechuan. 
P. paredra Prout (Suppl.-Vol. 4, pi. 4 f). Probably near eucircota, though neither the pectinations nor 
the 3 hindtarsus are quite so extremely short.. The ocelli are different in shape and contain a larger amount 
of dark scaling; they recall those of vulgaris in shape but are perhaps still broader than the extreme limit 
reached in that sjiecies. Szechuan. 
