RHOPALOCERA MALAYASA. 15 



Posterior wings dark fuscous, witli the following pair bluish nuirkings : — a largo basal subcostiil streak, 

 followed by a small elongate spot ; the interior of discoidal cell followed and apically surrounded by five 

 elongate spots situated between the nervules, of which the two interior are each followed by a smaller and 

 rounded spot ; four long, basal, longitudinal streaks, two situated before median nervure and connected 

 at base, and two on abdominal margin ; two or three subdiscal spots, situated between the ncrvures near 

 apex, and a submarginal series of small spots, which are obsolete and obliterated near apex and anal angle. 

 Win^s beneath generally as above, but with the submarginal spots (continuous and distinct, and tin; 

 subdiscal series of three spots, as seen above, continued in regular but smaller series to near anal angle. 

 Head and thorax above dark fuscous, spotted and streaked with bluish white : abdomen fuscous above, 

 testaceous beneath ; sternum black, spotted with white ; undersides of palpi, femora, and trochanters white. 



Male with two linear scent-glands on posterior wings, the longest situated on submedian nervure near 

 apex, the smaller one near apex of internal nervure. 



Exp. wings 79 to D'i raillim. 



H.vB.— Burma; Mcmlmein (coll. Moore).— Upper Tenasserim (coll. Wood-Mason).— Malay Peninsula ; 

 Province Wellesley (coll. Dist.) ; Penang; Malacca (Brit. Mus.) ; Singapore (coll. Hewits.).— Java (coll. 

 Dist.).— Sumatra.* — Formosa (Brit. Mus.). 



This species varies much in amount of melanism, and also in the size of the pale markings ; 

 some males have also the apex of the anterior wings more produced than in other specimens of 

 the same sex, thus further illustrating the little specific value of such characters. About six 

 species with similar structural characters and common facies are allied to this species, as 

 pointed out to me by my friend Mr. Moore, who has specially studied the Danaimr. These 

 form a gi-oup which are represented in Continental India, Java, Phillipine Islands, and -Japan. 



3. Danais agleoides. (Tab. I., fig. 5.) 



Danah a,,l,vi,lrs, Felder. Wien. Ent. Mou., iv., p. 398, u. 17 (1«60); Moore, Proc. Zool. See. 1M77, p. o»l ; 



Wood-Miison & Niceville, J. As. Soc. Beug., vol. 1., p. 224 (1881). 

 Danais ,/rammira. P.utl., Proc. Zool. Soc, 18C6, p. 55, u. U; Trans. Linu. Soc, ser. 2, Zool. vol. i., !>. 530, ii. 5 



(1877), uec. Boisd. 

 Pamntirii ai/lcoidi's, Moore, MS. 



Male and female. Wings dark fuscous, with pale bluish semihyaline spots and markings. Anterior 

 wings above dark fuscous, with the following pale bluish markings :— a basal longitudinal streak, situated 

 between costal and sulx'ostal nervures, followed by three subcostal spots, the first situated immediately 

 after first subcostal nervule, beneath which are two short linear streaks, divided by upper discoidal 

 nervule ; nine irregularly shaped discal spots situated two above and three beneath first median nervule, 

 three beneath second median nervule, and one near posterior angle a little beyond two narrow fascuB, 

 joined at base, the first running parallel to median nervure, and then deflexed subparallel to thml median 

 nervule, the other running subparallel to submedian nervure ; a narrow fascia commencing at base and 

 extending along about half the length of submedian nervure ; two long discal streaks in discoidal cell, the 

 upper one straight and divided, the lower more or less recurved ; a submarginal row of seven irregular 

 spots, and a marginal row of very small spots placed in pairs between the nervules, becoming obsolete 

 and obliterated towards apex. Posterior wings above dark fuscous, with the following pale bluish 

 markings : — a long basal streak between costal and subcostal nervures, followed by a small elongate spot ; 

 two fasciffi in cell, united at base, and from thence running subparallel to subcostal and median nervures, 

 between apex of each is a short intermediate streak ; following and surrounding apex of cell are five irregular 



* Smith, in Bock, ' Head Hunters Borneo,' Append. V. 



