44 EHOPALOCEHA MALAVAXA. 



Siityi-uf: Eun>i>,i, Godart, Enc. Meth. ix. p. 478, u. G (1828). 



Behix Riirojia, Westw., Gen. Diurii. Lep. p. 3.59, u. 1 (1851) ; Hewits., Journ. Linn. Soc, Zool. vol. viii. p. 143 



(1865); Suelleii, Tijd. Eiit. xx. p. CO (1877). 

 Fapilio Bero?, Cram., Pap. Ex. i. t. 79, C, D (1779). 

 PapiUo Arete, Cram., Pap. Ex. iv. t. 313, E, F (1782). 

 /.,'//„■ Arcuata, P.utl., Cat. Satyr, p. 114, ii. 4, t. 2, f. 3 (1868). 



Male. Wings ahove fuli<:;iiions-l)rown. Anterior wings with a very indistinct transverse pale fascia 

 across centre of cell (this is frequently quite obsolete), and with an oblique, broader, more distinct, and 

 paler faseia just be_yond end of cell, commencing on costa, where it is broadest, and terminating about 

 third median nervule, where it is narrowest ; two obscure whitish spots near apex, the upper one more or 

 less duplex and situated at al)out base of fourth and fifth subcostal nervules ; and with a submarginal pale 

 waved line at outer margin, the fringe of which is also greyish. Posterior wings with a few submarginal 

 and irregular darker spots, which are most distinct near apex, and with a pale submarginal waved line, 

 which is inwardly and irregularly bordered with very dark In'own. Wings beneath dark shining l)rown. 

 Anterior wings with a narrow white fascia crossing the cell about centre and extending to about inner 

 margin ; an oblique, wider and more ochraceous fascia beyond end of cell, commencing at costa and 

 terminating at about third median nervule, where it becomes fused in a waved series of six continuous, 

 amalgamated spots, which extend from near costa to inner margin, and are lilaceous, with their centres 

 fuscous and their inner and outer margins pale ochraceous ; between these spots and the outer margin^ 

 which has a paler narrow submarginal band outAvardly bordered with black, the ground colour becomes 

 more ochraceous. Posterior wings with a narrow white fascia commencing at costa, a little distance from 

 base, and terminating a little before centre of abdominal margin ; a submarginal series of six large, 

 subovate, continuous, amalgamated spots, which are pale brownish, and have the outer and inner margins 

 lilaceous ; the first and largest is situate on the two subcostal nervules, and has a large and rounded 

 black centre, dusted with a few white spots ; the remaining five are more elongated and compressed, fused 

 together at the nervules, and have the centres more or less irregularly Idack, dusted with white, the sixth 

 terminating at submedian nervure ; posterior margin ochraceous, with a pale narrow sulnnarginal band, 

 bordered outwardly with black. Body, antcnn£B, and legs fuliginous-brown. 



Female. Larger than the male. Anterior wings above with the oblique fascia at end of cell white, 

 very broad, and terminating a little below third median nervule, followed by a white spot at posterior angle, 

 the apical spots white and three in number, the upper two close together on each side of fifth subcostal 

 nervule, the lower one distinctly preceded by the upper of two fuscous spots, situate one on each side of 

 lower disco-cellular nervule, both being margined with paler brown. Posterior wings above as in male. 

 Anterior wings beneath with the broad white faseia as above, which obliterates the fifth and part of the 

 sixth submarginal spots, which are all paler and brighter than in the other sex. Posterior wings beneath 

 as in male, but with all the markings larger and brighter. 



Exp. wings, J Co to 70 millim. ; J 75 millim. 



H.U3. — Continental India ; Neilgherries ; Malabar; Khasia Hills (coll. Moore) ; Bombay (coll. Dist.) ; 

 Silhet (Brit. Mus.) — Andaman Islands (Calcutta Mus.) — Burma (coll. Moore). — Malay Peninsula; Penang 

 (coll. Dist. and Brit. Mus.) ; Province Wellesley (coll. Dist.) ; Malacca (Brit. Mus.) — Sumatra (Snellen). — 

 Java (Brit. Mus.) — Celebes (Snellen). — Siam (Mouliot). — China; Hong Kong (Brit. Mus.); Formosa; 

 Hainan (coll. Moore). 



The habits of this species appear to he much the same as those of Mel. Icda. Mr. Bigg, 

 at Penang, describes the " Lethes" (he refers to L. heme and L. arcuata as two species) as 

 " appearing in the padi-fields and ditches, especially at dusk";* and in Celebes, Piepers saw it 



* Month. Packet, vol. ii. p. 191 (1881). 



