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Sauris quassa Prout 
   
Sauris quassa Prout, 1932c: 77.


Sauris quassa (holotype)


Diagnosis.
The forewings are fasciated extensively with grey, more olive greenish basally. There is a conspicuous patch of the pale bone-white ground colour at the costa just anterior to the discal mark. The margin is cleft subtornally. The hindwings are grey, lobed, the central lobe slightly darker grey.

Geographical range. Borneo.

Habitat preference. The species is only known from the holotype male, taken at about 1600m on G. Kinabalu.

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