. The butterflies of India, Burmah and Ceylon. A descriptive handbook of all the known species of rhopalocerous Lepidoptera inhabiting that region, with notices of allied species occurring in the neighbouring countries along the border; with numerous illustrations. Butterflies; Butterflies; Butterflies. 284 Xanthoticnia in reality bears only a superficial resemblance to Clerome ; the following are its chief distinctive characters : Forewing, subcostal nervure with all its branches free, the second originating not far beyond the end of the cell; middle disc
. The butterflies of India, Burmah and Ceylon. A descriptive handbook of all the known species of rhopalocerous Lepidoptera inhabiting that region, with notices of allied species occurring in the neighbouring countries along the border; with numerous illustrations. Butterflies; Butterflies; Butterflies. 284 Xanthoticnia in reality bears only a superficial resemblance to Clerome ; the following are its chief distinctive characters : Forewing, subcostal nervure with all its branches free, the second originating not far beyond the end of the cell; middle disco-ccUular ncrvule compara- tively long and oblique ; lower disco-cellular about twice as long as the middle one, and nearly straight, oblique. Hindwing with the cell closed by a very slender concave neivule joining the median nervure near the origin of its second branch ; the origin of the subcostal branches and of the discoidal nervule well separated, and some distance from the base of the wing ; the latter arising at the junction of the disco-cellulars. The secondary sexual characters of the MALE consist of a raised fold along the inner edge of the submedian nervure, scantily fringed with long hairs, and terminating rather beyond the middle in a denser tuft of erect hairs. No tufts near the base of the median or subcostal nervures, nor on the abdomen of the insect. Mr. W. L. Distant (Rhop. Malay., p. 82), states that the cell of the hindwing has the apex entirely open, but according to Westwood's, original diagnosis it is closed, and this is also the case in all the specimens from Tenasserim which we have examined. Only a single species is known. 272. Xanthotsenia busiris, Wcstwood, Chrome (Xantliol'rnia) bushis, Westwood, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., new series, vol. iv, p. 187, n. 6 (1856); Xantltottenia biisirts, Moore, Proc Zool. Soc. Lond , 1878, p. 827 ; Distant, Rhop. Malay., p. 82, pi. v, fig. 7 (1882).. Habitat : Upper Tenasserim, Malacca, Sumatra, Java, Borneo. Expa
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