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where Mr. Otto Moller has hitherto only procured it in May. It has also been 
taken at Buxa, Bhotan ” (H. J. Elwes, Tr. Ent. Soc. 1888, 865). “ All the 
specimens I have seen have been obtained in Sikkim at low elevations in March and 
May” (de Niceville, l.c. 243). 
Malayan Species. — Symbrenthia Hippoclus (Pap. Hippoclus, Cramer, Pap. Exot. 
iii. p. 46, pi. 220, fig. C, D, d (1779). Staudinger, Exot. Schmett. pi. 36, d. 
Habitat. Amboina.— Symbrenthia Javanus (Sym. Hippoclus, var. Javanus, Staudinger 
(Eruhstorfer, Berl. Ent. Zeit. 1896, p. 314) ; Sym. Hippoclus, de Niceville, Journ. 
Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 1891, pi. E, fig. 10, dimorphic ? . Hypanartia Hippocla, 
Iliibner, Samml. Exot. Schmett. iii. fig. 1, 2, 3, 4, d, dimorphic ? (1827). Habitat. 
Java.— Symbrenthia Violetta , Hagen, Eeuts. Ent. Zeit. Lep. 1896, p. 165. 
Habitat. Sumatra ; Borneo.— Symbrenthia Niasica. Male. Differs from Violetta on 
the underside in the ground-colour being duller ochreous-yellow and all the red 
markings very inconspicuous. On the forewing the small round spot between the 
upper and middle median is centred with ochreous-yellow and has a distinct blackish 
outer attached mark, the lower-discal oblique fascia is also inwardly-edged with 
yellow, in the Sumatran Violetta both these parts are distinctly violet. On the 
hindicing the obsolescent conical spots are also entirely yellow, and are not speckled 
with violet scales, the marginal lunular line is distinctly inwardly-bordered with blackish 
lunules from the anal angle to the apex, the lunule above outer angle being blue 
speckled. Female. Hpperside with the bands similar but narrower than in Violetta. 
Underside paler than in male, the ground-colour and markings similar to Violetta , 
except that on the hindwing the marginal lunular line has a more or less defined 
inwardly-bordered shade. Habitat. Nias (Coll. Swinhoe and British Museum).— 
Symbrenthia Semperi (Sjm. Lucina, Semper, Peisen Phil. Lep. p. 114, pi. 21, fig. 7, 
8, d ? . Habitat. Philippines.— Symbrenthia Anna , Semper, lx. p. 114, pi. 21, 
fig. 5, 6, d $ (1888). Habitat. Bohol, Philippines.— Sijmbrenthia Hypatia (Laogona 
Hypatia, Wallace, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1869, p. 345, d). Hagen, Deuts. Ent. Zeit. 
1896, p. 165. Distant, Khop. Malay, p. 432, pi. 42, fig. 6, d. Eruhstorfer, Stett. 
Ent. Zeit. 1894, p. 125, pi. 3, fig. 4, d. de Niceville, J. As. Soc. Bengal, 1895, 
p. 428. Sign. Symb. Chersonesia, Eruhst. Berk Ent. Zeit. 1893, p. 38. 
Symb. Hippocrene, Staudinger, D. Ent. Zeit. 1896, p. 232, pi. 5, fig. 3, d. We 
have compared Wallace’s type specimen, nowin the Oxford University Museum, with 
male Sumatran and Bornean examples. A Sumatran female, in Mr. Hodmans 
collection, has all the bands on the upperside broader and paler fulvous than in 
male; the ground-colour on the underside is slightly paler, but with all the dark 
reticulated markings the same as in male, except that on the forewing the two 
transverse discal slender lines between the lower median and submedian are joined 
together longitudinally in their middle and form a distinct yellow letter Habitat . 
