nnol'ALOCERA MALAY AS A. 



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flying in tlio niornini;- twilight.* As ohserved in Xoitli-Wcstorn Indiii l)y Capt. Lang, it was 

 found on grassj- slopes in the sliiide or near lu'dges, " eonstiuitly pitcliiiig under l)nslies or at 

 roots of trees, and lying perdue." | 



Gt-nus CCELITES. 



Cnlihs, Wostwood, (leu. Diuni. Leji. p. Hli7 I 1851). 



Anterior wings long and subtriiiiigiiliir, with tlio costa more or less notclit-d at base and hhglitly 

 arched, the ajiex depressed and rounded ; outer margin shghtly emarginate and scalloped, sometimes 

 somewhat concave about centre : inner margin but very sUglitly dilated and nearly straight ; costal ucrvure 

 strongly dilated at base ; first and second subcostal uervules emitted before the end of cell ; upper disco- 

 cellular nervule verj- much shorter than the lower one, which is more or less concave. Posterior wings 

 more or less ovate, with the outer margin very slightly waved (as in C. nothia) or distinctly waved and 

 obtusely angulated or tailed near tirst median nervuh^ (as in ('. iiijifiichidido;) ; lirst and second lurdian 

 nervules emitted close together about apex of cell ; upper disco-cellular nervule short and curved ; lower 

 one longest and more or less oblique. Eyes naked. Antennas very slender, the apical portion gradually 

 and slightly thickened. 



This is a genus of small extent, and apparently confined to ('ontinental India and the true 

 Malayan Region. Five species have been described, l)ut it is p()ssil)le, when due allowance lias 

 been made for local variation, that not more than three are really known to Science at the 

 present time. 



I have neither seen nor received any species of Ca-lite^ myself from the Malay Peninsula, 

 but in 1867 Mr. Butler described and figured a specimen, which was collected in Malacca by 

 Lieut. Pioberts. As the type is in the collection of that gentleman, who, I am informed, is 

 now al)sent fnuu England, I have simply reproduced Butler's figures and description here. ' 



1. Ccelites euptychioides, var. humilis. (Fig. 15.) 



Cd'litcs t'lijiti/cliiiiidfs, Felder, Reise Nov. Lep. iii. p. 499, ii. 865 ilH(U;i. 

 (wlitrs llniiiili^, lintler, Ann. Nat. Hist. ser. 3, vol. xx. p. 408, t. s, f. S; 

 Civlitis ciipti/cliiiii'irs. var. Iiiiiiiilis, liutl., Cat. Satyr, p. ll:i, u. 4 (ISGS). 



Female. Wings above fuscous ; external area 

 of the anterior wings somewhat more obscure, of the 

 posterior wings paler ; both wings with an obscure 

 marginal line. Posterior wings with a subanal and 

 very indistinct blind "ocellus," margined with pale 

 ochraceous ; internal margin paler; body al>ove fus- 

 cous : anenune ferruginous. 



AVings beneath paler and ocbraceous ; a medial 

 fascia and another submarginal one on which the 

 " ocelli " are generally distributed, violaceous ; a discal 

 clouded fascia, fuscous ; two irregular marginal lines 



t. 9, f. 2 (iHtiT). 



Fio. 1.-.. 



■■ Tijil. Kilt. xix. pp. xviii. to xsi\., aud Eu^'. Trans, liy Kirliy, ' I'^utniutilogist,' x. p. UTl. 



I Ent. Mo. Mag. vol. i. p. IHI. 



J The original diagnosis is in Latin, but for the sake of uuiformily I have given a more or less literal translation 

 of the same. 



Junk 30, 188-2. N 



