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GONANTICLEA. By L. B. Prout. 
lioria. 
subcacsia. 
ncuiralis. 
occlusata. 
laelifica. 
kinabalensis. 
albizona. 
'penicilla. 
amblia. 
euclidiata. 
ampl lor. 
G. lioria sp. n. (27 a). On an average considerably smaller than subcaesia (28 to 30 mm, but 1 $ reaches 
34 mm), d antennal ciliation apparently shorter, thorax with larger white spot posteriorly, d abdomen less 
markedly elongate. Body and forewing above less variegated, the blackish-fuscous parts predominantly brown. 
Forewing with antemedian and the lines between it and subbasal on the whole more sharply angled in cell; 
postmedian with the tooth behind 3rd radial generally simple rather than double (i. e. almost without an ac¬ 
companying tooth or angulation behind 1st median). Hindwing and underside with the grey colour less bluish, 
more inclining towards brown or drab. Queensland (F. P. Dodd): Kuranda, Cairns district, type d in my col¬ 
lection, 8 $$ in the British Museum; Taylor Range near Brisbane, 1 d> 2 99 in the British Museum. 
G. subcaesia Warr. (27 a). Median band quite different in form from that of semiflava , dark shadings 
of subterminal differently placed. Antenna with ciliation about as long as diameter of shaft. British and Dutch 
New Guinea, the type from Upper Aroa River. neutralis Prout. Hindwing and underside with the non¬ 
descript purple-grey line of sublustris or of the African meridionata, even further removed from the deep blue- 
grey colouring of the type than is the brown-grey or drab-grey of lioria; distal half of forewing with irregular 
ochreous suffusion, which is strongest and clearest in the outer lobe of the postmedian band. Manusela, Central 
Ceram, 1 9- 
G. occlusata Feld. (27 a). Moderately variable and (as also the next 5 species) with streng sex-dimor¬ 
phism. d with moderate or rather narrow white or pale yellowish bar bisecting the (mostly dark) median band, 
$ with the distal part of the band represented only by a somewhat triangular costal spot and a fine postmedian 
line. Hindwing with the yellow ground-colour more or less suffused with grey. Ceylon (type) and S. India. - 
laetifica Prout. Forewing with brighter tints outside the median area, in the $ with the median area itself bright 
or light and with the postmedian lines generally very weak except at costa. Hindwing, excepting the abdominal 
region and a narrow or incomplete terminal shade, ochraceous orange. Underside also brighter orange than in 
0. occlusata. N. E. Himalayas, the type from Cherrapunji. I have also referred here the forms from Malaya 
and Tonkin. - kinabalensis subsp. nov. (27 a) should be separated; grey abdominal shade of the hindwing nar¬ 
rower, termen without the grey shading or maculation; I think also that there is somewhat more hair on the 
hindwing proximally. Kinabalu. 
G. albizona Prout (27 b). “Except in the very different shape more like amplior than occlusata.” Median 
area of forewing in both sexes broader than in penicilla, hindwing brighter, the d without the characteristic 
pencil of the hindwing and apparently with normal antenna (damaged in both the known dd)- $ rather large, 
with minute cell-dot well outside the narrow antemedian band, the much clearer orange hindwing best dist¬ 
inguishing it from that of o. occlusata. Mount Korintji, S. W. Sumatra, 7300 feet. 
G. penicilla Prout. Forewing closely like that of amplior , but looking slightly less broad, on account 
of the rather less square-cut tornus; hindwing quite different in shape from that of amplior , in the d with a 
longitudinal pale-buff hair-pencil on the upperside arising in t he base of the cell between the subcostal and the 
cell-fold; without the broadly smoky abdominal-marginal area, d antenna somewhat remarkable, the end 
darkened and very appreciably fusiform, recalling the South American genus Rliopalodes. 9 apparently variable, 
the hindwing intermediate in tone between those of O. occlusata and laetifica, but the cell-dot of the forewing 
in all the known examples stands outside, instead of on, the edge of the dark antemedian band. Korintji, at 
4500 feet (type), also (a race?) from the mountains of W. Java. amblia Prout (27 b), from E. Java, 4000 to 
5000 feet, is somewhat larger, hindwing and underside with strong dark suffusions, median band of the d fore¬ 
wing paler than in p. 'penicilla; 1 d more recently received from E. Bali. 
G. euclidiata Snell. (27 b, 0,U). Until recently, this apparently rare Gonanticlea. described as long ago as 
1881. was known only from the original account and figures. Now, however, specimens have been received 
from Paloe (W. Celebes) and these confirm the close relationship to amplior which was suggested by 
Snellen's good figures of the 9- here reproduced. The d begins to approach, in the hindwing, the shape which 
characterizes amplior but has not the specialized antenna. The 9 differs little from that of amplior but (as also 
the d) lacks the large darkened apical patch of the forewing beneath which is developed in that species. Celebes, 
the originals from Lokka. 
G. amplior Th.-Mieg (27 b). Closely similar in pattern and in the sexual dimorphism to the rest of 
the occlusata group; d with antenna thickened for a considerable distance, gradually tapering distallv, the ab¬ 
domen tufted at its extremity, the wings very distinct in shape, forewing broader and with more curved costa, 
hindwing with abdominal margin elongate. The very broad median band in the d approaches nearer to the 
termen behind the 3rd radial than in most Gonanticlea; cell-mark with noticeable pale circumscription; 9 with 
the dark band forming a tooth outward behind the cell-spot. Kinabalu (type), Selangor, Sumatra, Java and 
Bali: perhaps some races, but few specimens are yet known except from Kinabalu. 
