7g imOPALOCERA BIALAYAXA. 



Morpho Celimie, Cxodt. Enc. Metb. ix. p. 446, n. 18 (1823) ; Horsf. Cat. Lep. E. I. C. t. 6, f. 6 (1829). 



ilorpho Menetho, Godt. Enc. Metli. ix. p. 440, u. 20 (1823). 



IHxcophom celimie, Herr.-Schaff. Ex. Schmett. f. 5, 6 (1850) ; Horsf. & Moore, Cat. Lep. Mas. E. I. C. i. p. 211, 

 n. 432 (1857) ; Snellen, Tijd. Ent. xix. p. 148, u. 22 (1876) ; Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1877, p. 583 ; 

 Wood-Mas. ct de Niccv. Jonni. As. Soc. Beugl. xlix. p. 226, n. 10 (1880). 



Pisc..i>ho,-a vu-netho, Butl. Cat. Fabr. Lep. p. 45, n. 2 (1869) ; Trans. Lmn. Soc. ser. 2, Zool. vol. i. p. 538, 

 u. 1 (1877). 



Malo. Wings above olivaceous, with obscure bluish reflections. Anterior wings with the following 

 ochraccous spots"— one linear beyond end of cell and between the discoidal uervules, followed by 

 three which arc divided by the discoidal nervules (the upper of which is more frequently absent), 

 and a submarginal series of which the uppermost is situate between the discoidal nervules, and the 

 lower one between the third median nervule and the submedian nervure. Posterior wings with a 

 piceous, subovate, silky patch of raised scales at basal area of median nervules, the outer margin of which 

 is pale brownish. W' ings beneath reddish ochraceous, mottled with numerous dark strigse, and crossed by 

 a distinct broad darker oblique fascia, passing at about cellular apices of both wings, which have also 

 two narrow submarginal waved fasciaj, at the area of which (especially on anterior wings) the colour is 

 paler, and between which and the oblique fascia the colour is darkest. Anterior wings with three waved 

 and sinuated fascia crossing cell. Posterior wings with two discal ocellated spots, with white centres and 

 yellow and black margins, the first of which is situate between the subcostal nervules, and the second 

 and smallest between the second and third median nervules. Body and legs more or less concolorous 

 with wings. Antennse brownish above and pale ochraceous beneath. 



Female. Wings above pale chocolate-brown. Anterior wings becoming darker towards apical area, 

 where they are crossed by a very broad ochraceous subapical fascia, which commencing at eosta passes a 

 little beyond end of cell, is outwardly widened beneath the lower discoidal nervule, to near margin, and is 

 inwardly narrowed between the first and second median nervules till it terminates between the third median 

 nervule and submedian nervure ; this fascia is preceded by a small ochraceous spot between the second and 

 third median nervules, and is followed Ijy a narrow outer marginal ochraceous fascia. Posterior wings with 

 an outer marginal ochraceous fascia, which beyond the discoidal nervule towards anal angle is only 

 represented by a few spots between the nervules ; a submarginal series of four ochraceous spots placed 

 between nervirles, and two discal spots divided by the lower subcostal nervule. Wings beneath as in male, 

 but much paler, and with the fascia; much less distinctly defined. 

 Exp. wings, 3' 8.5 to 93 millim. ; S 100 millim. 



Hah.— Continental India ; Darjeeling* (Horsf. & Moore, and coll. Dist.) ; Nepaul (Brit. Mus.)— Andaman 

 Islands (colls. Moore and Calc. Mus.)— Malay Peninsula ; Province Wellesley (colls. Dist. and Satier) ; 

 Malacca (Brit. Mus.) — .Java (coll. Horsf.) — Borneo (coll. Dist.) 



The above descriptions apply to the form of the species as fouud iu the Malay Peninsula. 

 That of the male agrees with the figures of Stoll and Herrich-Schaffer, and is widely distributed, 

 a Daijeeling specimen in my own collection being in no way different. But in some Malayan 

 specimens the spots on the anterior wings are almost white, and the upper two of the three 

 discal spots are obhterated. As the males agree with the typical form as figured by Stoll, and 

 also with the male specimens arranged as D. ccliiule in the British Museum, I cannot agree 

 with Mr. Butler, who has placed a Malaccan female specimen, generally agreeing with the one 



* This is an unsatisfaotoiy habitat. Mr. H. J. Elwes (Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 5, vol. vii. p. 468) has pointed out 

 that it is the central station and only town in Brit. Sikkim, and being the centre to whicli all native collectors bring tlieir 

 specimens for disposal, species found in 13rit. and Native Sikkim, and the adjoining parts of Bliotan, Tibet, and Nepaul, from 

 the levcd of the plains up to 18,U00 or 19,01)0 feet, are thus labelled "DarjeeHug." Tlie Neotropical habitat " Bogota" has 

 been shown to be equally unsatisfactory, if not often fallacious (see Birchall, ' Zoologist,' p. 951'2). 



