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Show 446 MR. H. J. ELWES O N N E W [May 3, CHILADES? PONTIS1, n. sp. Male above dull purplish black with faint green or (in some lights) purple reflection, darker towards the body. Fringes alternated with black and white. Beneath dull grey, with irregular darker markings, which on the hind wing coalesce into a blackish patch powdered with grey on the inner half of the wing. Body black, with grey hairs and palpi. Antennas faintly ringed, with a short distinct club. Expanse -fij inch. The shape of the hind wing is very peculiar, the costal margin, which is straight, forming almost a right angle with the outer margin. I know of no other species in which the character is so well marked. Described from three males (a fourth exists in Godman's collection ex coll. Lidderdale) taken by m e on May 27, 1886, on the bridge crossing the Rangbi river on the way from Darjeeling to Mongpo, at about 6000 feet elevation, in deuse dripping evergreen-forest. This curious little insect is unlike anything found in India or the Himalaya, but has a very near ally in China, which, as it is unde-scribed, I will here characterize as follows :- CHILADES SINENSIS, n. sp. Resembles C. pontis, but has a broad border of darker colour than the wings, no green reflections, and a rounder apex to the fore wing. Beneath, the markings are very similar but more continuous, and there is an outer band near the margin of the fore wing not found in C. pontis. The dark markings on the hind wing also come nearer to the margin. Described from a specimen taken by Mr. H . Leech near Ningpo in May 1886. This agrees perfectly with several others from Kiukiang on the Yangtse river taken by Maries, which have for some years been in the collection of the British Museum. HYPOLYC-ENA VIRGO, n. sp. Female. Fore wing above black, with a large discal patch of French-grey extending to the hind margin inwardly. Hind wing grey powdered with black, and becoming dpll black on the costal margin, with a single narrow black tail tipped white, and a small fuscous lobe at anal angle. Fiinges white, narrow towards the apex of fore wing. Beneath bright French-grey, with a distinct transverse sinuous yellowish band, narrowly edged black on both sides about two thirds of the length, not extending quite to the hinder margin ; a short 1 I include this in the genus Chilades (Moore, Lep. Ceylon, i. p. 71) with doubt. It seems, on a superficial examination, to have most affinity to Chilades laius, Oram.; but without sacrificing a specimen I cannot be sure that the apparent resemblance is real. And many of Moore's distinctions are so trivial that I do not think they can be adopted without an independent study, not only of the insects in question, but of the whole of the Eastern Lj-ccenidre. |
