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PSEUDONYGTEMERA. By Dr. K. Jordan. 
is almost entirely brown; the ? on the contrary is very little different from the Indian form, only the wings, 
laranda. as also in the cf, are more elongated: laranda Bruce (see vol. II, p. 11, pi. 2e). 
zenotia. C. zenotia Doubl. (= spoliata Walk.) (5b). Body pale yellow; antenna, head, thorax (except the 
hinder part), tip of the abdomen and the stigma-spots black-green. Wings white; base of the costal margin 
green-brown, a spot in the cell, the broad, light-spotted margin, a spot on the disc, the outer margin of the 
hindwing and a cell-spot black-brown, slightly green. — Assam; Burma; Siam; Tonkin. 
zelica. C. zelica Doubl. (= leucomelas Moore, neoterica Swinh.) (5b). Wings white; forewing with a brown 
band before the middle, which at the costal margin is extended to the base, margin brown as far as into the 
cell, with 3 white spots; hindwing with brown marginal band. The antenna as in the preceding species 
with very long pectinations. Markings not constant. — Assam; Burma. 
fragilis. C. fragilis Walk, {cf — obscurata Walk) (5b). cf: black-brown, somewhat grey, forewing with a 
white band, hindwing brown, lighter in the middle, or white with black margin, sometimes also the fore¬ 
wing with white basal area. In the ¥ body and wings white, head and antenna brown, on the forewing 
2 bands and the distal margin, on the hindwing an irregular band before the margin black. — Borneo; 
Sumatra; Java. Larva pearly grey, dotted with black above, head and underside yellowish, legs and the 
first and last segment orange-yellow. 
30. Genus: Pseudonyctemera Snell. 
Broad-winged insects; colours white and grey- or black-brown, on the hindwing also pale yellow. 
Forewing without costal veinlets, upper angle of the cell projecting, truncate, 1. and 2. subcostals free, 
3.— 5. stalked, 3. short, often absent, 1.—3. radials from the cell; cell of the hindwing obliquely truncate 
anteriorly, lower angle projecting, discocellular scarcely angled. — Some of the forms resemble species of 
Ntjctemera, whilst others are similar to Pierids. 
P. marginale. Body white; abdomen with black-green dots above and laterally. Forewing grey- 
brown or black-brown, with a white band and before the outer margin small white spots; hindwing white, 
marginale. with black-brown margin. Malayan. — marginale Voll. (cf = arcuatum Voll.), from Java. Marginal band 
of the hindwing in cf and ¥ broad; cf without, ¥ with indistinct white submarginal spots on the upper surface. 
perlata. — perlata subsp. nov. Marginal band of the hindwing narrower than in the preceding form; the white sub¬ 
marginal spots of the upper surface of the forewing very distinct at least in the ¥, usually indistinct in 
taminata. the cf. West Sumatra, according to Do iirn also in North-East Sumatra. — tarn in ata subsp. nov. (5 b), of 
which 1 only know ¥2, differs from the preceding forms in having on the forewing broader wdiite vein- 
stripes, deeper black distal part and larger submarginal spots, and on the underside of the hindwing a rew 
of very distinct white submarginal spots. Nias. 
decipiens. P. decipiens Snell, cf: forewing pale grey-brown, with broad, quite diffuse white median band; 
hindwing white, margin indistinctly grey-brown. Beneath the forewing is white, mixed with grey, from the 
base to ‘‘‘js. — Java. Only known to me from the figure and description; is perhaps the cf of a Javan form 
of P. dissimulata. 
nyc- P. nyctemeroides Semp. (5a). ¥: abdomen above dark, with white rings, beneath yellow; wings 
temeroides. black-brown, 4 stripes between the veins at the base of the forewing, a macular band in the middle and a 
curved row of spots before the apex white, as well as the hindwing, the margin of the latter broadly black- 
brown. Under surface with metallic green stripes. — Luzon. 
P. dissimulata. Pierid-like; wings white, forewing with black-brown marginal band, which has 
white vein-streaks, the veins and partly also the interspaces brown; hindwing above with or without marginal 
pura. band, beneath pale yellow with a broad marginal band. Indo-Malayan. — pura subsp. nov. (5b), from Assam; 
veins of the forewing narrowly brown; hindwing above without marginal band, beneath the marginal band 
dissimulata. is removed from the cell, only the streak behind the 2. subcostal reaching to the cell. — dissimulata Walk. 
(= lyra Bruce, ficta Swinh., pontioides Btlr.) (5 c) is more broadly black-brown before the margin above 
analis. and beneath than pura. Specimens with dark-scaled forewing are ab. analis Snell. Malacca; Singapore; 
Borneo; Billiton; Java (Snellen). 
invaria. P. invaria Walk. I believe to be a dark second ?-form of dissimulata. Upperside suffused with brown, 
the white markings obsolete or indistinct, cell of the hindwing grey; on the underside also the white is 
reduced, and the yellow area of the hindwing is either only indicated or very much reduced. In the name- 
type of invaria Walk., from Sumatra, all the white and yellow colour has disappeared from the:wings, only 
the submarginal spots are faintly indicated on the under surface; the hindwing above is metallic grey-blue 
from the base to the anal angle and the apex of the cell. All the other specimens known to me have 
griseifusa. more or less grey on both wings: ab. griseifusa IJamps. (= lyra Druce partim) (5b). — East Pegu; 
Malacca; Singapore; Sumatra; Borneo. 
