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Show 402 COL. C SWINHOE ON N E W [Nov. 5, as in P. laticilia, but instead of being black with white bands, white with black bands and is very much smaller; in the fore wings the white spot near the base of the hinder margin and the white spot near the hinder angle are enlarged, and occupy the greater portion of the lower half of the wing ; the white space near the base, in some specimens, running upwards to and joining the white patch at the end of the cell, leaving a blackish-brown costal, almost straight, and a medial transverse sinuous central band; the long-white subapical spot or streak in P. laticilia is also represented in this insect by a broad subapical white band, which in some specimens curves inwards, and in one it curves outwards and joins the fifth submarginal spot, counting from the apex. Hind wing as in P. laticilia, but all the black bands and spots much smaller ; the black spot attached to the centre of the medial band hiudwards is wanting; and, in one specimen, the outwardly dentated black discal band is represented by a curved series of black spots; both wings with a marginal series of pink spots, as in P. atratus, but they are round and not angular as in that species, and form a complete band on both wings ; thorax blackish brown ; head, collar, and abdomen orange, abdomen with a dorsal band of black spots. Body below and legs blackish brown, abdomen with two rows of pale yellow spots ; pattern of wings below same as above. Expanse of wings 2y2^ inches. Hab. Prome (Burmah). Four examples received from Mr. Noble ; they differ somewhat from each other, but were all taken at Prome in May 1887, and are evidently all of one variable species. LlTHOSIIDiE. HYPSINHE. MlGOPLASTIS HAMPSONI, n. sp. (Plate XLIII. fig. 2.) Male and female. Antennae, head, thorax, and wings violaceous fawn-colour. Hind wings of the male yellowish, head with a central black dot hindwards, thorax with a row of four black spots in front, a row of three in the centre, and two middle spots hindwards, all surrounded with yellow ; fore wings with two basal black spots, and both wings with the veins paler, and with a broad pale median band, slightly paler than the colour of the wing, but quite distinct, touchins; neither costa nor hinder margin on the fore wings, and diffused, indistinct, attenuated downwards on the hind wing; the band looks just as if so much colour had been rubbed off the wing ; cilia of both wings grey ; abdomen above and below yellow, with a row of black spots down the centre and on each side. Underside : wings as above ; antennae blackish towards the base ; palpi black; body and legs same colour as the wings. The male differs from the female in having the hind win°\s excavated hindwards, forming an acute point at the anal angle, and in having these wings suffused with yellow. Expanse of wings 2 ^ inches. |
