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Show 454 MR. L. D E NICEVILLE O N N E W OR [May 3, ochreous colour extending along the first median nervule for a short distance ; cilia black. Hind wing with the outer margin somewhat broadly ochreous, sprinkled with dark-brown or blackish irrorations ; cilia black, tipped with white on the three upper indentations between the veins. U N D E R S I D E : both wings very variegated, the ground-colour apparently being ochreous, thickly irrorated with dark-brown striae ; a discal obscure purplish fascia, inwardly bounded by a dark line. Fore wing with three short subcostal bands reaching the middle of the cell, and a broader subapical one, ochreous (these fasciae are formed by those portions of the ground being free from irrorations), an obscure purplish patch at the apex, an irregular series of five round violet-white spots placed between the veins midway between the cell and the outer margin, the two in the median interspaces large, the other three very small. Hind wing with the inner edge of the black discal line marked with an ochreous bar at the costa, the outer margin showing more of the ochreous groundcolour than the rest of the wing; five discal violet-white spots between the veins, the three lower ones large, the two upper small, the lower ones surrounded by a black ring, the spot in the first median interspace the largest of all.-FEMALE. U P P E R S I D E : fore wing with the subapical band broader, richer-coloured, and extending along the costa; the black apical patch crossed by yellow veins; the median nervules also marked with yellow near the band. Hind wing with the outer margin richer ochreous. U N D E R S I D E much paler ; the darker irrorations far less dense ; no trace of the diffused purplish fasciae. I have placed this species somewhat doubtfully in the genus Cyllogenes, the chief recorded structural character of which is the presence of a large deep black patch in the male, this " sexual mark " being entirely absent in m y species, the sexes being practically marked alike. C. janeta is, however, much more closely allied to C. suradeva, Moore (hitherto the type and only species in the genus), than to any other described species, the yellow band on the fore wing and the upperside being a striking feature, which is common to both species. On the underside the blind ocellated spots are precisely similar in both species ; and the purplish fasciae on the underside of the male of C. janeta; is of the same tint as obtains on the upperside of both sexes of C. suradeva. The truncation of the apex of the fore wing in both sexes of C. janeta (more especially in the male) is a good structural character by which to separate the two species in both sexes. It agrees also structurally with Cyllogenes suradeva in the almost similar extraordinary character which obtains also in the genus Parantirrhaa of Wood-Mason, and which for Cylloyenes has not hitherto been noticed, viz.: in the male the three median nervules of the fore wing are considerably further apart at their apices than in the female, owing to the fact that the lower one has to supply the place normally taken by the submedian nervure, as it reaches the outer margin but a very short distance anterior to the anal angle ; while the submedian nervure is very short, slightly sinuous, and reaches the inner margin at considerably less than half |