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lUlurALOCElU MALA YANA. 



nervulo aborted, loaving the cell widely open. Median nervules widely separated, the first prominently 

 rounded at base; submedian nervure nearly straight. Posterior wings elongate and subtriangular, the 

 costal and outer margins convex ; anal angle produced in narrow caudate elongation, which is traversed by 

 the submedian nervure ; abdominal margins convex and contiguous near base, and fn>m thence becoming 

 concavely divergent to anal angles. Costal nervure arched and extending to apex; precostal nervure 

 obliquely rounded and curved outwardly towards apex ; discoidal nervules well separated at their origin ; 

 discoidal cell with the apex quite unclosed, first median nervule arched and rounded at a short distance 

 from base. Body short, robust; palpi large and porrect, raised above the upper margin of the head, 

 gradually narrowed to an obtuse point at apices, tiattened beneath and covered with adpressed hairs, and 

 clothed above (excluding apices) with long semi-erect and well-separated hairs. 



About twelve or thirteen species are sometimes iucluded iu this genus ; but of these, tw'o 

 are probably not strictly congeneric, as the apical angles of the anterior wings are acute. 

 These two species also belong to the Ethiopian region, one being found hi West Africa, and 

 the other in Madagascar. The remaining and more typical species inhabit an area extending 

 from India to Australia, and it is in the Papuan and Pacific regions that they mostly abound, 

 where, according to present knowledge, the number of species is rather more than double what 

 is found in the Indo-Malayau region. The genus is closely allied to Kallima, the species of 

 which are commonly known as "leaf-butterflies," from the strikingly foliaceous appearance 

 of the under side of the wings, and whose habitat is almost exclusively the ludo-Malayan region. 

 DolcschaUia thus appears as the extreme eastern rej^resentative of KalliiiKi, a genus which most 

 probably inhabits the Peninsula, it being already recorded from Tenasserim. 



The larva and pupa of the Ceylon species is figured iu Moore's ' Lep. Ceylon,' from 

 drawings made by the Bros, de Alwis, and as described is " long, somewhat slender, purple- 

 black, with a dorsal and lateral series of short delicate branched blue spines" and "a central 

 row of white spots." It is stated in Ceylon to feed on " Acanthads." '^ The transformations 

 of ]). hisaltide iu Java have also been described by Piepers. f 



One species only is at present known in the Malay Peninsula. 



1. Doleschallia pratipa. (Tab. XL, tig. 8 <? ; Tab. IX., fig. 6 S .) 



Dohu-hallia I'latijni, Felder, Wieii. Eut. Mou. iv. p. 8'J9, u. 20 (I860); Eeise Nov.Lcp. iii. p. 400, u.610 (1806) ; 

 Moore, Proc. Zool. Sec. 1877, p. 584; ibid. 1878, p. 828; Butl. Trans. Liim. Soc. ser. 2, Zool. vol. i. 

 p. 539, 11. 1 (1877). 



Male. Apical angle of the anterior wings prominently falcate. Anterior wings reddish ochraceous ; 

 apical angle, outer margin (narrowing to posterior angle), and an irregularly shaped and sized oblique 

 fascia commencing near costal nervure, crossing end of cell and amalgamating with outer margin between 

 the lower subcostal and first median nervules, very dark fuscous. Posterior wings reddish ochraceous, 

 with two distinct submarginal fuscous rounded spots, situate one above the discoidal nervule and one 

 between the second and third median nervules, and a very pale fuscous and moderately broad marginal 

 fascia, with the inner border strongly waved and the outer border ochraceous, preceded by a black 

 line. Wings beneath dull ochraceous, strongly suffiised with olivaceous ; anterior wings with two 

 waved and sinuated transverse bright white fascite crossing cell, and a smaller and more obscure 

 irregular spot beneath cell at base of third median nervule ; posterior wings with three bright 



* Lep. Ceyl. i. p. ;^9. | Tijilschr. Eut. xix. p. 151-2 (1S7G). 



