64 RUOPALOCEHA MALAYAN A. 



little beyond apex of cell dark castaneous, remainder much palov and thickly irrorated with the pale strigse, 

 and with two or three small Imt distinct dark submarginal spots situate between the median nervules ; 

 a somewhat large pale stramineous spot, near costa, placed between the subcostal nervules. Body and legs 

 more or less concolorous with wings. 



Female. Wings above obscure bluish brown, as in the specimen figured, or with brighter indigo 

 shadings, as in other si)ecimens. Anterior wings crossed by a broad subapical white fascia, commencing 

 at costa and terminating about second median nervule. Posterior wings slightly paler on disk. Wings 

 beneath generally marked as in male, but with the ground colour much darker (this is somewhat variable, 

 being little paler than above, as in the specimen figured, or more shaded with castaneous, as in other 

 specimens), and with the subapical whitish fascia of anterior wings above, more diffused towards apex 

 beneath. The pale subcostal spot on the under surface of posterior wings of the male is generally absent 

 in the female, though present in the typical female form of the species contained in the British Museum. 



Exp. wings, S (55 to 68 milhm. ; ? 7l> millim. 



H.\B. — Malay Peninsula ; Province Wellesley (colls. Dist. & Saiier) ; Malacca (Brit. Mns.) — Singapore 

 (coll. Hewits.). 



The male form here described and tigured (Tab. VII., fig. 6) was described by Mr. Hewitson 

 under tlie uame of J/, iiieliida, whilst the female form (Tab. VI., fig. 11) is the typical M. penanija 

 of Prof. Westwood. Mr. Hewitson appended to his description of M. mekida the remark, " This 

 and M. penaiuja are very probably the sexes of one species." The form, however, which he 

 figured as M. penawia * was a closely allied but distinct Sumatvau race, which Mr. Wallace has 

 very properly separated under a distinctive name.f 



The two forms, however, are sufficiently similar to show that Hewitson exhiliited acumen 

 in making that remark. Having found all the specimens I have examined to exhibit sexual 

 constancy with the different coloration, and as the underside of the two forms are so very 

 similar, * I have felt constrained to consider the descriptions of both Westwood and Hewitson 

 as referring to the sexes of one species, autl Westwood's name has therefore priority. 



This race or species appears to be quite confined to the Malay Peninsula. A recent writer § 

 has included it in a list of Sumatran butterflies, but all the Sumatran specimens which I have 

 seen in collections represent the E. sumatrana, Wall. 



B. l'i>pr.r (Usco-ccUiiliir vfrrulc of iiostryhiy iciiiii>> (ihliiitn-li/ directed outiranUii. 



{'). Elymnias casiphone. (Tab. VI., fig. 10 j .) 



I\h/iiini<is nisijihiiit,; Hubner, Samml. ex. Sclimett. iii. (1H16-1S!2-1) ; Wall., Trans. Eut. Soe. 1H09. p. ;-^'25, ii. 12 



Butl., Trans. Ent. Hoe. 1870, p. 488; Proc. Zool. Soc. 1871, p. 522, n. 1-1. 

 M.Uoiiiis cnxijilume, Doubl. & Westw., Gun. Diuvu. Lap. p. 4U-1, u. 3 11851). 



Male. Wings above pale chocolate-brown. Anterior wings with the apical area much suffused with 

 violaceous and with the following pale greyish macular markings; a number of irregularly-sized and 

 shaped spots on costal area, gradually increasing in size from base ; a rounded spot just beyond end of 

 cell ; two discal spots divided by the second median nervule, and a suljniarginal series of six spots, divided 



* Exot. Butt. iii. Melanitis, t. 1, f. 1, 4 (IHGoi. f Traus. Ent. Soc. 1809, p. 325, n. 10. 



I The female example of E.j)cnan(ja, here fifjured, is probalily that of a somewhat faded specimen, as the under 

 surhice of the wings is generally of a warmer tint, and more concolorous in hue, and similar in markings with the 

 corresponding surface of the wings iu male specimens. 



§ Smith in Bock., ' Head Hunters of Borneo,' Append. V, 



