lUIOPALOCERA MALAYANA. 83 



apex of cell ami terminating a little bej'ond submedian nervuve ; the outer marpiinal line is preceded at apex 

 of cell with an inner marginal line, giving the appearance of a lower disco-cellular ner\T.ile ; two suhraarginal 

 waved dark lines and a narrow marginal one of the same colour ; eight pale, rounded, and more or less 

 ocellated diseal spots, the tirst and second largest, contiguous, and subdivided by the first subcostal nervule, 

 fourth and fifth divided by the first median nervule, smaller than third, which is situate above discoidal 

 nervule, sixth large and placed between second and third median nervules, seventh and eighth small and 

 together situate between third median nervule and submedian nervure ; an obscure, narrow, dark fascia 

 extends from the inner side of the two upper spots to near the lifth or sixth spots. Body and legs more or 

 less concolorous with wings. 



The male possesses a long tuft of tine hairs on the abdominal margin of the posterior wings, 

 a little before the ajiex of abdomen. 



Exp. wings, (? 65 to 72 millim. 



Hab. — Tcnasserim ; Moolai, 3000 — 0000 ft. (Limborg, coll. Moore). — Malay Peninsula; Malacca 

 (Pinwill, Brit. Mus.) — Sumatra (Forbes, coll. Dist.) — .Tava (coll. Dist.) — Borneo (coll. Hewits.). 



The female of this species is coutaiucd in tlie British Museum, and resembles the 

 male sex. 



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Group NYMPHALINA. 



Palpi broad, the anterior margin more or less dilated. 

 Larvie variable in form. 



'il W0 '^^^^ group represents the suhfam. Nymplialincc of many authors, and 



^ ~ the reasons for this proposed arrangement have already been submitted 



^ 'il' when discussing the group MorpJiina, though it may be added that some 



Fig. 25.— Head, showing rcccnt authors, as Moore * and Snellen, incorporate the two groups 



pa pi o yn na < eione. ^^gg^^g^.^ -With some authorities, also, the subfam. Acneince is systematically 



arranged between the two groups. Of the Acneime no example has at the present time been 



either received from the Malay Peninsula, or recorded from that region ; but as a species is 



found in Ceylon, and more particularly as another has been lately sent home by Mr. Forbes 



from Sumatra, it is quite possible that the Acmince will still prove to be represented in this 



fauna. 



Amongst the Nijmphaliim there are probably several genera which remain to be discovered 

 in the Malay Peninsula, luit which are still absent from our lists and collections. Thus at the 

 present time we have received no so-called "leaf-butterfly" belonging to the genus Kali i ma. 

 As this well-known genus is found in Continental India, Ceylon, Andaman Islands, Burma, 

 Tenasserim, Sumatra, and Java, it seems hardly reasonable to conclude that it is absent in 

 what may be considered as the intervening district of the Malay Peninsula, as here faunistically 

 understood. It seems difficult also to believe that no species of Tlerona inhabits the Peninsula,! 

 as that genus is represented in Continental India, Andaman Islands, Tenasserim, and 

 Sumatra. Of other Oriental genera not at present included in this fauna may be mentioned 



* Lep. Ceylon. 



■|- There can be little doubt that when collections arc made in the highlands of the interior and in the Native States 

 many species will be added to this ah'eady rich Ehopalocerous fauna. 



