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Show 260 MR. F. MOORE ON LEPIDOPTERA [Feb. 21, SAINIA, n. g. Fore wing comparatively narrower than in lliades (memnon group); costa more arched ; apex very convex ; exterior margin very oblique and slightly sinuous; posterior angle somewhat pointed. Hind wing narrow, elongated hindward ; costa very short; exterior margin moderately scalloped ; the female of typical species without a tail; cell longer than in lliades. SAINIA PROTENOR. Papilioprotenor, Cram. Pap. Exot. i. pl. 49. f. A, B (1779). CADUGOIDES, n. g. Fore wing elongated, triangular; costa arched towards the end, apex convex ; exterior margin oblique, even, and concave in the middle, posterior angle rounded; cell very long, extending two thirds the wing; upper discocellular outwardly oblique, lower inwardly oblique and concave: hind wing fan-shaped ; the costal margin very long, extending beyond posterior angle of fore wing, apex abruptly convex ; exterior margin short, very oblique and slightly scalloped; abdominal margin somewhat long. Antenna? short, slender, club moderately and gradually thickened to tip. Type C. agestor. A mimic, in both general form and pattern, of Caduga tytia, of the Euplceina. CADUGOIDES AGESTOR. Papilio agestor, Gray, Zool. Misc. p. 32 (1831) ; Lep. Ins. Nepal, p. 6, pl. 4. f. 2. CADUGOIDES GOPALA, n. sp. Papilio agestor, Westwood, Arcana Ent. p. 59, pl. 16. f. 2 (nee Gray). Female. Intermediate between C. agestor and 0. govindra: fore wing with similar markings to those of the same sex, except that the three submarginal spots are more conical in shape and concave on their outer edge than in either of the above species, the marginal row of small spots being like those in C. agestor : hind wing less produced apically, the exterior margin more convex and more prominently scalloped than in female C. agestor, the red colour of a considerably paler tint than in either species, being somewhat yellowish towards the base and along the outer veins, the veins basally and the discoidal streaks are black-lined; the intermediate streaks of similar form to those in C. agestor, but of an ochreous-grey tint; the discal series with slight blackish outer ends, and au outer marginal series of large blackish conical spots. Body as in G. agestor. Expanse 4 inches. Hab. Kangra district. In coll. British Museum. |