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and terminating on abdominal margin. Wings beneath pale castaneous ; both wings crossed by an almost 

 straight submarginal dark castaneous fascia, bordered outwardly with greyish. Anterior wings with a pale 

 waved fascia crossing cell near its centre ; a narrow oblicpie greyish fascia beyond cell, commencing near 

 costal nervure, and terminating at first median nervule, beyond which it is continued and indicated by a 

 narrow dark line only ; between these pale fascim the colour is somewhat darker, and is thus continued in 

 a waved and narrower form on posterior wings, where it terminates in a faint and indistinct manner about 

 centre of abdominal margin. Posterior wings with two ocellated spots on inner side of submarginal fascia; 

 these spots are inwardly margined with white, and arc situate one between the subcostal nervules, and one 

 between the second and third median nervules ; apical angle with a fuscous spot, bordered on each side 

 •with greyish.^ 



The male is provided with two tufts of long dark liairs near base of upper surface of posterior wings, 

 covering the disks of two distinct pseudo scent-glands or pouches. 



Female. Larger than male ; wings above with distinct basal resplendent bluish rellectious. Anterior 

 wings with a discal, curved, and outwardly convex series of five ochraceous spots placed between the nervules, 

 commencing between the discoidal nervules, and terminating near the third median nervule, and a straight 

 submarginal series of five ochraceous spots also placed between the nervules. Posterior wings with a 

 waved fuscous marginal fascia. Wings beneath slightly paler than hi male, the oblique greyish fascia 

 beyond cell of anterior wings much more distinct, broader, and continuous, the straight submarginal 

 fascia to both wings outwardly much more widely bordered with greyish ; ocellated spots larger and anal 

 angle less produced than in male. 

 , Exp. wings, <? 93 millim. ; 2 94 to 98 millira. 



Hab.— Malay Peninsula ; Province Wellesley (colls. Dist. and Sauer) ; Malacca (Brit. Mus.)— Borneo 

 (coll. Godm. & Salv.) 



The males of this species vary in tlie amount of melanism. In some specimens, as the one 

 figured, the submarginal series of pale spots above are scarcely visible. 



3. Thaumantis pseudaliris. (Tab. VIII., fig. 3 <? .) 



Thaumantis imnulaliris, Butler, Journ. Liuu. Soc, Zool. vol. xiii. p. 115 (1877); Trans. Liun. See. ser. 2, 



Zool. vol. i. p. 538, n. 2, t. Ixviii. fig. 1 (1877). 

 Thaumantis aliris, S , Westw. Trans. Ent. Soc. ser. 2, vol. iv. p. 170 (1858).t 



Male. Anterior wings above fuscous-brown, with the base ferruginous, crossed by a pale lemon- 

 colom-ed transverse undulating fascia, which, commencing at costa above apex of cell, is then slightly 

 curved outwardly, passing a little beyond cell, is gradually narrowed between second and thml median 

 nervules, and terminates in a small spot beneath the last-named nervule ; two large subapical white spots, 

 separated by the upper discoidal nervule. Posterior wings fuscous-brown, with the base ferruginous ; the 

 apical half from a little beyond the median nervule, and a large subquadrate apical-angular spot ochraceous, 

 more or less tinged with orange-red. Wings beneath crossed by a broad, irregular, and deeply smuated 

 chocolate fascia ; on anterior wings this fascia is abbreviated about median nervule, and is very narrow at 

 costal margin, where it is supplanted by the commencement of a transverse waved white fascia crossmg 

 wing at end of cell and terminating on outer margin at apex of third median nervule ; on the inner side of 

 the chocolate fascia the colour is obscure ochraceous, with two irregular reddish spots in cell and a smaller 

 one above it; beyond the white fascia the colour is reddish ochraceous, with a large discal obscure 

 violaceous patch, bordered outwards with fuscous, and containing an outer white spot above upper discoidal 



* These anal-angular markings have been unfortunately omitted from the figure. 



+ Mr. Butler in renaming the male of Westwood's species lias accidentally given a wrong reference to that author's 

 description. 



