RHOPALOCERA MALAYAN A. 75 



Male. Wings above fuliginous-brown ; posterior wings with a silky patch of raised scales at bases of 

 median ncrvulcs. 



Note. — In all male specimens as yet examined from the Malay Peninsula the anterior wings are 

 unspotted, but in specimens from Continental India there are usually three discal rows of pale spots 

 between the end of cell and outer margin. The ground colour also varies in intensity of hue. 



Wings beneath dull ochraceous ; basal half of both wings dark ochraceous, remaining outer portions 

 pale ochraceous, with three more or less waved darker faseiix;, one marginal and two submargiual ; posterior 

 wings with two ocellated spots with white centres and white and black margins, the first situate between the 

 subcostal nervules, the second between the second and third median nervules (this lower second spot is 

 absent in the specimen figured). Body and legs more or less concolorous with wings. 



Female. Wings above pale chocolate-brown. Anterior wings with the outer discal portion dark 

 chocolate-brown ; an obscure ochraceous spot in and before end of cell, and a smaller but more distinct 

 spot of the same colour beyond end of cell ; a like spot beneath cell and between second and third median 

 nervules (absent in specimen figured) ; an inner discal series of six white spots placed between the nervules, 

 the largest, upper, and innermost two contiguous, and separated by the upper discoidal nervule ; the sixth, 

 with its posterior margin tinged with ochraceous, is situate between the third median nervule and submedian 

 nervm-e ; this is outwardly followed by a series of live spots, the upper one bluish and amalgamating with 

 the second inner spot, second and third bluish, and fourth and fifth ochraceous ; and a submarginal row of 

 five ochraceous spots placed between the nervules in a line with the other two series ; costal and outer 

 margins very pale bro-vniish. Posterior wings with the outer discal portion dark chocolate-brown, and with 

 three discal series of ochraceous spots placed between the nervules, the two inner series not passing the 

 third median nervule, the outer series having an indistinct spot beyond that nervule ; the intermediate 

 series are more or less distinctly sublunate, and the outer series are inwardly margined with very dark 

 chocolate-brown ; outer margin very pale brownish. Wings beneath as in male, but paler, the basal portion 

 with a few scattered dark rounded spots near base ; a waved, continuous, narrow dark fascia crossing the 

 centres of both cells, and a dark spot at the upper disco-cellular nervule of anterior wings ; ocellated spots 

 to posterior wings smaller than in male, but varying in size. 



Long. S 70 to 75 milhm. ; 2 90 to 98 millim. 



Hab. — Continental India; Darjeeling (Horsf. & Moore); Silhet (Brit. Mus.) — Tenasserim; near 

 Ahsown (Limborg). — Malay Peninsula; Province Wellesley (colls. Dist. & Salier) ; Malacca (Brit. Mus.) — 

 Borneo (coll. Godm. & Salv.). 



The females of this species vary in the })romiuence of the apical angles of the anterior 

 wings, thus approximating towards the specimens descrihed by Prof. Westwood as a distinct 

 species, under the name of iJiscophora Zal, but which may probably prove to be merely a variety 

 of this species.* 



The larva is figured in Horsf. & Moore, Cat. Lep. Mus. E. I. C. i. (pi. xii. fig. 15), from the 

 original drawing made by Mr. A. Grote, then of Calcutta, and is stated to feed on " Bamhiisa." 

 It apparently agrees in structure with the larva of I), cclinde, which is here figured. 



■2. Discophora celinde. (Tab. V., fig. 10 <? , 11 ? •) 



PajAUo Celinde, Stoll, Suppl. Cram. Pap. Ex. t. 37, f. 1, 1 A (17!)0). 



Papilii) Menetho, Fabr. Ent. Syst. iii. 1, p. 83, n. 200 (1793); Douov. Ins. Ind. t. 30, f. 1 (ISOO). 



Papilio aristides, Fabr. Ent. Syst. iii. 1, p. 86, n. 2G8 (1793). 



* Mr. Moore has enumerated Biscoplwra Zal amonj,' the Tenasserim butterflies (Proc. Zool. Soc. 1878, p. 820) ; and 

 Mr. Kirby, in that lepidopterists' vade viecum, liis ' Cat. Diurn. Lep.' p. 040, also considers it distinct. 



