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RirOPA LOCEIIA MA LA YA NA . 



twenty-oue of which are there described for the first time. I am considerably indebted to these 

 for the characters wliich I have here used as sectioually dividing the species of Mijrulcsis found 

 in the Malay Peninsula. 



As in the genera Danals and Enpliru, the males (as Mr. Moore has pointed out) are provided 

 with a glandular pouch (probably a scent-secreting organ*), covered by a tuft (or tufts) of hair, 

 which is either in some species found on both wings, or in others on the posterior wings only. 

 In .Tava a species possesses two of these appendages to the posterior wings, but according to 

 our present knowledge no species in this fauna possesses more than one. 



I have here included seven species, which account for all that have been referred to from 

 this region by other writers, though in some cases I have formed conclusions as to specific 

 value which are not in unison with those of some authorities. In all cases, however, I have 

 endeavoured to show where and why this divergence of opinion takes place. 



A. Mitlcs posscssiiiii II pxciido sccnt-fihiiid on hutli anterior and pi'stcrior niini-s. 



1. Mycalesis maianeas. (Tab. VII., fig. 4 ? .) 



M,/nde.sis Mai,m,'„s, Hewitsou, Exot. ]!utt. iii. p. 87 ; .!/-/-■. t. 5, f. 27, 28 (1864) ; Butl.. Cat. Satyr, p. IHl, 



u. 18 (1808). 

 Sdtiia Miiianras, Moore, Trans. Eiit. Soc. 1880, p. 157. 



As I have not received this undoubted Malaccan species, I have here reproduced Hewitson's 

 figure, and add the description of that author : — 



" Upper side. Male dark brown ; the outer half nearly of the anterior wing, and the outer margin of 

 the posterior wing, rufous-brown. Anterior wing with a tuft of hair near the inner margin ; the margins 

 of both wings where they meet silvery white. 



" Under side dark brown to the middle, rufous-brown beyond : the outer margin and two submarginal 

 lines dark brown. Anterior wing with three ocelli, two near the apex minute and touching, the third below 

 the middle, large; posterior wing with seven, the first (touching the costal margin), the fourth and fifth 

 large, the rest smaller, all black, with pupil white, and iris rufous-orange." 



" Female like the male, except that it has an orange band on both sides of the anterior wing, and has 

 but one ocellus, near the apex, on the underside of the anterior wing." 



Exp. wings, I? h% in. ; t 2 2-fr, in. I 



H.U3.— Malay Peninsula: Malacca (coll. Hewits.) — Sumatra.?;— Borneo ; Sarawak (coll. Hewits.). 



Tliis species is peculiar in having, by its superficial characters, at least, a strong affinity 

 witli tlie species of an African group of the genus. Mr. Moore has proposed a new genus 

 [Saioa) fur its reception. 



Note. — In faithfully reproducing Hewitson's figure, our artist, Mr. H. Knight, must not be held 

 responsible for the imperfect iieuration of the same. 



- As witb the genus Kiiplma, I have used the term " psemlo sceut-gland," because, though the pioliability oC tliese 

 behig scent-producing or scent-secreting organs, as in tlie genus Danais, is eminently and distinctly probable, still the evidence 

 in its favour, unlike that oi Danais, requires local verification. 



f 4S millini. \ 55 millim. § Smith, in Bock. • Head Hunters of Borneo,' Append. V. 



