3t; 



RHOI'ALOCERA IMALAVANA. 



spotted with white beneath : head beneath, sternum, and legs bhickish ; head al)Ove, anterior portion of 

 thorax, palpi, sternum, and extreme base of wings spotted with white. 



Exp. wings, J !''2 milliui. 



Hab.— Malay Peninsula ; Province Wellesley (coll. Dist.) ; Malacca (Brit. Mus.) 



This species varies much in the colour of the marginal and submnrginal series of spots 

 to the upper surface of the posterior wings, as occurs in the preceding species. In some 

 speciuKius these are white, as in the variety figured. It is closely allied to E. mmetriesi, from 

 which its constantly larger size appears to be the strongest difierential character. Butler 

 describes it as being darker than E. ninu'trit'si, but this does not apparently obtain when series 

 of both species from the Malay Peninsula are compared. 



E. Mdlrx pnn-idvd iritli two psciido scent-glands or hmnds to anterior wings, hut not possessing a jiidr 

 discoidiil patcli to posterior /rings.* 



17. Euploea grotei. (Tab. III., fig. 3.) 



Fhi^hra grutei, Fulder, Keise Nov. Lep. ii. p. 339, n. 470, t. 41, fig. 7 (1865) ; Butl., Traus. Lmn. Hoc. ser. 2, 



Zool. vol. i. p. 535, 3 (1877). 

 Siirtoj.hr,, grotei, ]?utl., Joum. Linn. Soc, Zool. vol. xiv. p. 302, 4 (1878); Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1878, 



p. 824. 



Male. Anterior wings dark viohu-eous, with a submarginal row of eight small pale violaceous spots 

 situated between the nervules, and a marginal row of small spots which are almost white near posterior 

 angle, and do not extend more than half way between that angle and apex. Posterior wings ferruginous, 

 with a submarginal and marginal row of white spots, of which the first are the largest and become fused 

 with the marginal series near anal angle. Wings beneath pale ferruginous ; anterior wing with two small 

 bluish spots near end of cell, the first situated between first and second subcostal nervules, the second 

 above first discoidal nervule ; three larger spots of the same colour on disk, the first inside and a little 

 before end of cell, remaining two beneath cell and on each side of second median nervule : marginal and 

 submarginal spots as above, but smaller, paler and becoming obsolete towards apex. Posterior wings with 

 a discal series of eight small pale bluish spots, situate two beneath costal nervure, followed by five 

 surrounding apex of cell, and divided by the nervules, and one in and near apex of cell ; marginal and 

 submarginal spots as above. Head and thorax blackish ; anterior portion of upper surface of thorax 

 and head spotted with white ; abdomen blackish, spotted with bluish beneath ; sternum and legs black ; 

 palpi, sternum, and extreme bases of wings spotted with bluish white. 



Anterior wings above, with two long and subparallel pseudo scent-glands or Itrands situate between 

 third median nervule and submedian nervure. 



Exp. wings 80 to 95 millim. 



H.\B.— Burma; Moulmeiu (coll. Moore).— Upper Tenasserim (Liniborg).— Malay Peninsula; Malacca 

 (Brit. Mus.)— Cochin (coll. Felder). 



This species appears to be somewhat scarce in the Malay Peninsula. The British 

 Museum possesses Malaccan specimens collected by Capt. Piuwill ; but I neither captured 

 it myself in Penang or Province Wellesley, nor have I yet received examples from those 

 localities. Its area appears to be comprised between Cochin and Burma in the north, and 

 extending probably almost throughout the Malay Peninsula in the south. 



=•= I am much iudelited to my frieiul Mr. Moore for liaviug drawu my attention to the value of these characters ; uhieli 

 I have here used for the purposes of sectional division. 



