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7,' UOPALOCEEA M. ILAYA XA . 



distinctly fuscous; luiterior win^s witli a small suLapical ocellus; posterior wings with five "ocelli," the 

 third and fourth smallest and the fifth largest; all of these are black, surrounded with fulvous, the outer 

 margin of which is fuscous, and with very small white pupils. Body beneath ochraceous. 



Exp. wings, 3i6 in. 



jj_^j,._]\Xalay Peninsula ; Malacca.— Aver panas (coll. Eoberts). 



I have followed Mr. Butler in considering his ('. huinilif; as but a local form or nir. of 

 r. luipliirhioidcs, Feld., and Mr. Kirby* considers it l)ut a synonym of that species. Felder's 

 typical ('. Euptiicliioidcs was from Borneo, and Bornean specimens are contained in the British 

 Museum. It has also l)een recently recorded from Sumatra, f 



Genus E KITES. 



Siiiip-Ks, subg. AV/(c.s Westwood, Geu. L)inru. Lep. p. S92 (1851). 



Anterior wings somewhat elongate and narrow, with the costa arched and slightly convex at its apex, 

 the apex rounded ; outer margin nearly straight, or very slightly waved inwardly about middle ; inner 

 margin nearly straight ; costal nervure very strongly dilated at base ; first and second subcostal nervules 

 emitted before the end of cell ; i;pper disco-cellular nervule very short, directed a little outwardly at base, 

 and then somewhat concavely in its greater length to apex ; lower disco-cellular nearly straight, and very 

 slightly directed either outwardly or inwardly. Posterior wings irregularly subovate, with the outer margin 

 wa\-ed and produced into an obtuse angle or tail near first median ner\-ule ; nervules well separated at their 

 origin ; disco-cellular nervules about or almost subequal in length, the upper one concave, the lower one 

 almost straight. Eyes prominent and naked. Palpi clothed beneath with fine long semi-erect hairs, 

 somewhat separated and placed in tufts. Antenna- sk'nder, the apical portion slightly and gradually 

 thickened. 



Four species represent our present knowledge of this genus, and its distril)ution is limited. 

 We have no record of its having been discovered in Continental India ; one species is apparently 

 confined to the Malay Peninsula, extending, however, as far north as Upper Tenasserim ; two 

 have been received from Borneo, and another is found in Java. 



1. Erites angularis. (Tab. V,. fig. 3.) 



Hrite.s aiiiiiil'iiis, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1S78, p. 825. 



Male. Wings above semihyaline, pale smoky ochraceous, the basal halves mottled with narrow, 

 darker strigffi. Anterior wings crossed by two dark oblique fascias, the first of which is nearly straight and 

 passes from costal nervure through apical angle of cell to about middle of submedian nervure ; the second 

 commences about the bases of fourth and fifth subcostal nervules, touches cell at its lower apex, and is 

 then distinctly bent inwardly and terminates on submedian nervure ; three very obscure subapical 

 ocellated spots, divided by the discoidal nervules, with extremely faint and minute white centres, 

 margined outwardly with ochraceous, and with the extreme margin pale fuscous ; a very large ocellated 

 spot situated on second and third median nervules, with a whitish centre and ochraceous margin, which is 

 widest outwardly, and there and above also margined with fuscous ; and with two waved fuscous marginal 

 lines, the inner one becoming somewhat obsolete towards posterior angle ; the marginal fringe also fuscous. 

 Posterior wings crossed by two very angulated dull ochraceous fasciae, of which the margins are somewhat 

 fuscous ; the inner commencing at costa in a line with the corresponding one of anterior wing, curved and 



- Cat. Dim-n. Lep. p. 45, o ilS71). f Smith, in Bock, ' Head Hunters uf Borneo,' Append. V. 



