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ZALISSA; PIMPRANA. By Dr. K. Jordan. 
Iransiens. 
inierposita. 
caiacoloides. 
melanura. 
pratti. 
catocalina. 
atkinsoni. 
to subalba, but the marginal band of the hind-wing is rather broader on the whole and the discal band on the 
forewing below somewhat narrower. The name-type belongs to the form with a narrow border to the hind¬ 
wing. Sikkim, Bhutan, Assam; rather abundant at 1200—2000 m. The specimens from Burma are a transition 
to the next subspecies. -— transiens Walk. (= aegoceroides Feld.) (4 d). Thorax variegated with red-brown; 
the white discal band on the upperside of the forewing more distinctly developped than in the specimens from 
North India. Malay Pen., Sumatra, Borneo, Java and Bali. 
Only 1 $ is known of S. interposita Hamps. from West China. The abdomen has a woolly apex as 
in transiens, and the hindwing bears a black discocellular dot as in catacoloides . On the forewing, above, there 
is a red-brown spot close to the hind angle and at the proximal side of this spot a greyish blue one. 
S. catacoloides Walk. (4 d). Abdomen with black dots at the spiracles, apex of $ simply clothed with 
scales and hairs, not incrassate and not woolly; palpal segment 3 of $ long. Forewing above with 2 greyish 
blue submarginal spots between radial 3 and median 2, at the hind margin a spot of grey-blue scaling next 
to the angle, then follow proximally a red-brown spot divided by a pale line and again a greyish blue one. 
Hind wing always with a black discocellular dot, the marginal band either more or less narrowed from the 
centre backwards or dilated in front of the anal angle. On the underside the distal margin of the forewing 
is sometimes dusted with white and the apex often red-brown, the hindwing bearing in some examples a yellow 
anal spot in the black marginal band. The harpe of $ does not reach to the middle of the clasper; it is sharply 
pointed and does not lie in a groove. -— Known to me from Sikkim, Assam, Borneo, Java and Lombok. The 
discal band of the forewing appears to be broader in the majority of the Malayan specimens than in Indian ones. 
S. melanura spec. nov. : Head, palpi and upperside of thorax brown-black, pronotum with thin 
grey edge, palpi with very few whitish grey scales, end-segment short; fore and mid tibiae almost entirely 
black (hind legs wanting in the unique specimen), abdominal segments 7 and 8, and claspers, as well as the 
underside of 6 black. Forewing as in dark specimens of transiens ; the discal band pale loam-colour and only 
1 mm broad, the line placed at the distal side of the band continued to the lower median, where it meets 
a pale loam-yellow triangular spot which is situated at the distal margin below median 2. Hindwing without 
black discocellular dot; marginal band narrower than in the previous species and much more evenly tapering. 
On the underside the white cell-spots of the forewing strongly dusted with black and the discal band narrow; 
the hindwing bears a small black discocellular dot. The harpe is short and pointed, and the ventral margin 
of the claspers clothed with stiff bristles almost to the base. $ like but palpal segment 3 longer than 2 and 
club-shaped, the mid tibia less black, and the hind femur and hind tibia yellow; apex of abdomen as in bala 
and transiens, incrassate and densely clothed with loam-yellow wool; the white cell-spots on the underside 
of the forewing feebly indicated and the discal band narrow and, especially behind, shaded with blackish brown. 
-— One pair from Tondano, North Celebes. 
29. Genus: jftalissa Walk. 
Like Seudyra, but the Irons bears only a small rounded tubercle without a raised ring. — One Papuan 
species. 
Z. catocalina. Upperside of thorax and forewing reddish brown; abdomen and breast yellow, upper- 
side of head and a median stripe on the thorax grey, tufts on abdomen red-brown. Forewing with black 
double lines near the base, before the middle and on the disc, distal margin shaded with white and bearing 
a black line, at the distal side of the reniform and contiguous with it a j:>ale patch. Hindwing yellow, with a 
broad black marginal band which narrows posteriorly, fringes white below the apex. On the underside the 
base of the forewing yellow and one or two discal spots white. -— pratti Baker (4d). Forewing with pale brown 
discal patch on the upperside and without distinct white cell-spot on the underside; marginal band of hind¬ 
wing evenly narrowing behind. Known from British and Dutch New Guinea, northward to the Arfak Mts. 
catocalina Walk. (4 d). Underside of forewing with white cell-spot, upperside with white discal patch; mar¬ 
ginal band of hindwing broader than in pratti and twice incurved on the proximal side. West-Australia. 
30. Genus: Pinipraiia Moore. 
Differs from Seudyra essentially only in the hairy eyes. Abdomen above without distinct tufts of hair, 
apex of $ incrassate and densely woolly as in some species of Seudyra. Antennae of S and ? feebly thickened 
distally of the middle, with rather long cilia and bristles. Thorax above and beneath as well as the femora 
clothed with long hair. Segment 3 of palpi short. — One Indian species. 
P. atkinsoni Moore (4d). Body yellow, upperside of thorax loam-colour with an olive-brown tint, 
abdomen black above, anal tuft yellow. Forewing above dirty brownish yellow, red-brown posteriorly and be¬ 
fore the distal margin, before the latter also two rows of grey-blue dots, ring and reniform brown; hindwing 
black-brown, with the costal and distal margins yellow. Underside yellow; forewing from the cell to the hind- 
margin and hindwing from the middle of the cell to that margin black, forewing with a cell- and a discocellular 
spot black-brown, on hindwing only the discocellular spot present. -—- Sikkim, apparently very rare; in Mus. 
Tring 3 $$ an d 1 ? from coll. Elwes. 
