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Batracharta
cossoides Walker
Carissa
cossoides Walker,
[1863] 1864, J.
Linn. Soc. (Zool.), 7: 168.
Batracharta
chariessa Prout, 1928, Bull. Hill Mus. Witley,
2: 261, syn.
n.
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Batracharta
cossoides 
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Diagnosis.
This and the next species have similarly obscured indigo brown patterning to the
forewing, with more distinctly indigo patches basally and discally, but cossoides
is
generally larger, with the patches more widely separated and the marginal zone
wider, more evenly marked, irrorated with yellow, brown and pinkish red. See
also the diagnosis of the next species.
Taxonomic
note. In the original description of chariessa,
it is clear that Prout had not examined the holotype of cossoides,
referring entirely to female material in BMNH attributed to cossoides.
In fact, the holotype of cossoides (UM, Oxford) proves to be chariessa, so the other species is described as new below.
Geographical
range. Borneo, Sumatra, Sulawesi.
Habitat
preference. The species is infrequent, known from the type material, taken
in Sarawak by A.R. Wallace, probably in the lowlands. Recently collected cossoides material
is also all from lowland localities, the first two in Brunei: two from dry heath
forest on sand at Telisai (15m); three from disturbed lowland forest at Labi
(30-60m); three from Samarinda on the coast of Kalimantan.
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