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RHOPALOCERA MALAYANA. 



nei-TOle ; beneath the median nervule the white fascia is inwardly and ii-regularly bordered with fuscous. 

 On posterior wings the chocolate fascia is broadest on costal margin, strongly angulated and narrowed 

 about discoidal nervule, outwardly angulated and rounded at base of first median nervule, and terminating 

 at anal angle between the third median nervule and submedian nervure where it is narrowest ; it is 

 outwardly margined with white for its upper half; the inner area is pale obscure ochraceous, with three 

 reddish spots, two irregular and linear situated above and beneath cell, and one small and rounded in and 

 near base of cell ; outer area reddish ochraceous, with two ocellated spots, the upper one mottled with 

 reddish and with a white centre and black margin situate between the subcostal nervules, the lower and 

 larger one with a large black spot inwardly bordered with white near its inner margin ; outer margin black 

 inwardly preceded with pale ochraceous; this spot is situated between the second and third median 

 A-ules ; and a small linear marginal black spot between the third median nervule and the submedian 



ner 



nerviu'e. 



Male with two large basal tufts of hair on upper surface of lower wings, the smaller near costa, the 



larger at base of cell. 



Female. Somewhat larger than the male ; apical angle of anterior wings tinged with dark bluish, 

 beneath paler, brighter and more violaceous. 



Exp. wings, (? Ill millim. ; 9 114 millim. 



Hab.— Tenasserim ; Thoungyeen Valley, foot of Donat Range (Bingham, Brit. Mus.)— Malay 

 Peninsula; Malacca (Pinwill, Brit. Mus., and coll. Hewits.). 



The male specimen in the British Museiim is here figured, and was captured in Malacca; 

 the female to which reference is made was collected by Capt. Bingham in Tenasserim. The 

 first is somewhat worn, and it is possible that in fresh specimens the apical area of the upper 

 surface of the anterior wing is bluish, as described in the female specimen. 



Prof. Westwood, when he described his T. aliris, apparently possessed the sexes of two 

 species, and as he figured the female of the Bornean species, which is distinct, it was necessary 

 to rename the Malaccan male. 



Genus CLE ROME. 



Cln-ome, Westwood, Geu. Diurn. Lep. p. 3:33 (1851) ; Traus. Eut. Soc. ser. 2, vol. iv. p. 182 (1858). 



Anterior wings subtriangular or sul)ovate ; costal margin very much arched, the apex rounded ; outer 

 margin more or less convex ; in the male the inner margin slightly dilated at base. First subcostal nervule 

 emitted a little before end of cell, and terminating beyond apex of costal nervule ; second, third, and fourth 

 subcostal nervules emitted somewhat close together, the second before the apes of the first ; fourth and fifth 

 with a common origin. Lower disco-cellular nervule very long and obliquely sinuate. Discoidal nervules 

 distinctly separated at their origin. First median nervule not prominently arched or angulated at base. 

 Posterior wings ovate ; disk of costal margin nearly straight ; outer margin and anal angle rounded. 

 Discoidal nervule (the base of which is homologous to an upper disco-cellular nervule) emitted close to the 

 bifurcation of the subcostal nervules. Discoidal cell with the apex quite unclosed. 



The geographical area of Clerowe pertains to that of the previously enumerated Malayan 

 genera of Morphina. From Continental India in the west it extends eastwards through 

 Tenasserim, the Malay Peninsula, a little beyond the confines of the ludo-Malayan portion of 

 the Archipelago, and as far north as China. 



