XANTHOLEPIS; BORBOTANA. By W. Warren. 
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low spots deep purple blue edged with black; the red ground colour becomes shining coppery pink 
along the margins and the spots of the band; hindwing black, with a large white blotch at middle 
of costa, and an elongate whitish mark from base below cell; a white spot at anal angle and spots 
at end of veins 2, 3, 4, all running out into the black fringe; underside reddish black with all the 
white spots larger. Found in the Khasia Hills, Assam; the Nilgiri Hills, Madras; Ceylon; Burma; Penang; 
Singapore; Borneo; and Sula Mangoli. In Ceylon specimens, — subsp. cingalesa subsp. nov., ( 1 9f) — the cinyalesa. 
median fascia is more solid; the two cellspots being close together, sometimes confluent; in those from 
Sula Mangoli — subsp. insulicola subsp. nov., (19e) the large costal spot is divided into two by the insulicola. 
subcostal vein, and the specimens are larger; in Borneo, whence came the type, a form occurs -— ab. 
suffusa ab. nov. (19 f) — in which all the usual yellow markings are dull leaden grey. suffusa. 
37. Genus; Xaiiiliol« k g>is Hmps. 
Differs from Pachylepis in having veins 8, 9, 10 only stalked, vein 7 from the upper angle and 
6 from below it; in the hindwings veins 6, 7 are shortly stalked. Type Xantholepis dicycla Walk. 
X. dicycla Walk. Forewing sulphur yellow; a small subbasal cupreous red annulus on costa; dicycla. 
a curved diffused cupreous red inner band with small yellow spots on it at costa and below cell; outer 
line denticulate, angled outwards on the cell fold and inwards at reniform, the area beyond it cupreous 
red with small yellow spots just beyond it at costa and inner margin, a bifid subapical spot, and 3 
spots just before termen between veins 2 and 5; fringe mottled cupreous red and yellow; reniform a 
cupreous red figure of 8; hindwing white; the terminal area redbrown; fringe whitish with rufous base. 
Recorded from N. India and Burma; the $ only is known. 
38. Genus: iSorbofana Walk. 
Tongue well developed; frons smooth; palpi upturned, the second segment broad and rough scaled 
in front, the third small; antennae with a tuft of scales from basal segment; prothorax and metathorax 
with slight crests, also basal segments of dorsum; forewing with costa slightly shouldered at base, the 
apex square, termen evenly curved, not crenulate; veins 8, 9, 10 stalked, or 10 from cell in $; one 
or more grooves of ribbed membrane between veins beyond upper angle of cell. Type B. nivifascia Walk. 
Sect. I. Antennae of <$ with tuberculate fascicles of cilia; vein 7 of fore¬ 
wing downcurved at base with a single groove above it. 
B. nivifascia Walk. (— eburneifera Walk., leucographa Snell.) (19f). Forewing deep velvety nivifascia. 
brown, paler brown in terminal third; a broad irregular vertical white band before middle, with a round¬ 
ed projection outwards in submedian interval, and a slighter one on subcostal vein; a white dot in 
cell, often obsolete; an irregularly triangular cellspot followed by two white dots, often obsolete, forming 
with a white costal spot above it and an angulated white line below it a postmedian fascia; beyond it 
between veins 2 and 4 a bronzy brown patch; a dentate, flexuous, subterminal line, starting from a 
white jagged streak before apex, often hardly traceable; fringe brown, with pale line at base; hindwing 
rufous brown, paler at base and towards inner margin; a dark cellspot. Occurs in Sikkim, Lower Burma, 
Penang, Borneo, Java, Sumatra, Celebes, Kei Id., Woodlark Id., and the Solomon Islands; in the subsp. 
tumefacta subsp. nov. from Sikkim, N. India, the outer band is swollen into a blotch on inner margin, and tumefacta. 
the ground colour is darker. 
B. kebeae Beth.-Baker (19 f). Forewing deep rufous with a faint yellow tinge; a yellow point kcbcac. 
defined by black at base of cell; a broad silvery white inner band, limited by black lines, with a strong 
outward projection in submedian interval and a slight one on subcostal vein; an oblique narrow silvery 
white band from costa beyond middle to inner margin before tornus, edged by black lines, interrupted 
at lower angle of cell, with 3 white points beyond it at end of cell, its inner edge toothed inwards on 
both folds; subterminal line dentate, fine and white towards costa, then darker and diffused, inangled 
on the folds; a fine yellowish line at base of fringe; hindwing whitish in basal area, the terminal area 
pale purplish rufous from apex to submedian fold, where it narrows off; fringe rufous, becoming white 
at tornus. British New Guinea, Ekeikei, and Mt. Kebea. 
Sect. II. Antennae of d shortly ciliated; veins 6, 7 of forewing down- 
curved at base with a groove above each. 
B. ekeikei Beth.-Baker . Forewing with basal half dark red brown, the terminal half silvery etceikei. 
purplish grey, tinged with rufous beyond cell, the termen itself suffused with rufous; a silvery white 
broad inner band with its inner edge curved, the outer projecting in submedian interspace and slightly 
