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a greenish brown mark on fore wings between the white discal line and the interrupted subbasal line. — ab. 
fenestrella. fenestrella Mezg. has on forewings a 10 mm long conjunction of the basal band with the dentate discal band 
and through the absence of the white line in the reddish discal band a vitreous spot is created. — ab. 
andrewesi. andrewesi Deb. is notified from Sikkim on the border line. It resembles walkeri Fldr. (Vol. 2, p. 213) and has 
the lunular spot extending to the white discal band. 
wcrfsoni. S. watsorsi Obertii. (11 b) was described and illustrated by Oberthur from a G from Ta-tsien-lu. Re 
created for this new species a separate Genus “ Desgoclinsia without however giving any justification. Accord¬ 
ing to the illustration, which is being reproduced here, there is no reason why same should not be includ¬ 
ed in the Samia Him. The new species looks very like cynthia, but the ground colour is a richer mahogany- 
brown with faint claret hue. In the “Entomologist” Vol. 56, p. 172, Watson describes a $ bred from Ta- 
tsien-lu, which is unfortunately slightly damaged and which is considerably smaller than wat.soni He be¬ 
lieves this is the yet unknown $ of watsoni. In any case it is a very rare species, at all events as far as 
the territories of Ta-tsien-lu and the Omeishan are concerned. 
7. Genus: Antlieraea Hbn. 
cinnamo- A. pernyi Guer. (Vol. 2, p. 216, pi. 34 cl). — ab. cimiamomea Niep. denotes specimens with rich cin- 
/ ij ibris namon re d colouration in both sexes. Japan. — <^-ab. lugubris Niep. has all wings an olive-brown on upper- 
side, costa of forewings a mouse-grey peppered with dark speckles to %rcls of the length of wings. Across the 
centre of forewings a dark shadowy stripe extends, which is continued on hindwings. The postdiscal trans¬ 
verse line is black with white outer edge, similarly the subbasal which has a white inner edge. The vitreous 
centre of ocelli is encircled by dark brown with a white inner edge; the postdiscal line on hindwings is dark 
and obsolete. Underside paler than upperside, widely white-grey within the postdiscal line; subbasal line 
melaina. sharply marked and dark brown. The dark shadowy discal band, as on upperside. — ab. melaina John is 
a dark form, the general colouration is dull olive, suffused with grey-black. It stands in relation to pernyi, 
as melaina Gross does to Aglia tau. 
francki. A. fiancki Wts. belongs to the royUi-pernyi group and is closer as far as general appearance goes to 
the former species (Vol. 10, p. 511, 55 B a) than to the latter. The antennae are pale brown, paler than in 
the other species named. Ground colour of wings is not quite so reddish as pernyi and is about half wav 
between the two related forms. Forewings are more falcate, edged with brown and yellow. The eyespot is 
larger than in roylei, but somewhat smaller than in pernyi and the same applies to the vitreous centre 
spot. The brown submarginal is more excurved and in the centre has a continuous faint inner line, which 
is rarely found in royeli. Hindwings have only faint markings. A faint line extends from the anal end of 
the ocellus to anal angle, forming a fork. The upper branch of same ends at abdomen, the lower one near 
the faint submarginal. The band between the ocellus and base of wings is missing. Underside is darker and 
more brownish than the two related forms and has only diffuse markings. The submarginal has no w r hite or 
grey edges. The length of forewings is 75 mm. Only a single $ from Kwanhsien in Szechuan is known. 
chengiuana. A. chengtuana 1(7 6'. is only known from a single $ captured at light at Chengtao in Szechuan and 
which is in rather poor condition. It is relatively very similar to A. assamensis Ww. (Vol. 10, p. 511, pi. 55 B b). 
Wings are paler rusty brown. The ocelli of both wings rather deeper orange than ground colour; areola of 
ocellus of fore wing more faintly black than that of ocellus on hind wing. Bands of both wings without white 
edge in contrast to assamensis. Submarginal line is further from margin than in the latter, especially at hind 
margin, where it turns towards base of wings. The band itself consists of two fine black-brown lines, which 
are confluent at apex and have a white edge outwardly, there is a faint whitish line along the lower half. 
Hybrids of palaearctic Antlieraea. 
perny- The hybrids mentioned in Vol. 2, p. 217 without names are: yamamai-<$ X pernyi -£ = hybr. perny- 
■ ya e m s a ' yama Board., hybr. pernyi x yamamai- $ = hybr. inversa Tutt. 
8. Genus: C'alignla Mr. 
privaia. C. boisduvali Ersch. (Vol. 2, p. 217, pi. 31 d). — d'-ab. privata Krul. is probably identical with jallax 
chinensis. Jord, (Vol. 2, p. 217) or only a slight modification of same. — subsp. cliinensis Bbl. from Szechuan in W. 
China is much more monotonous and duller in colouration than jallax, the disc of forewings is reddish grey. 
It differs from jonasi Btlr. (Vol. 2, p. 218, pi. 32 b, d) by its paler more reddish yellow general colouration, as 
well as by the more truncate apex to forewings, the less prominent reddish brown and not brownish claret 
basal area of forewings, the outer edge of which extends to costa. The ocelli are remarkable by their almost 
