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white spots near base, one near base of costal nervurc, one near base of third median nervule, and 

 the third very obscure, in and near base of cell. Anterior wings with the costal base, cellular area 

 preceding the' outer white fascia, an irregular fascia near end of cell, and a small costal subapical patch, 

 dark olivaceous, the last preceded and followed by dull whitish ; both wings crossed by a discal oblique 

 dark olivaceous line, commencing on costa of anterior wings between end of cell and apex, where it is waved 

 and directed outwardly and then reflexed and oblique, terminating near anal angle of posterior wings ; 

 between this line and outer margin there are on anterior wings five or six obscure white-centred spots 

 divided by the nervules, and two distinct ocellated spots with white centres between the median nervules 

 and on posterior wings three distinct ocellated spots situate one on each side of the lower subcostal nervule, 

 and the thmi between the second and third median nervules (a fourth and obscure spot is sometimes 

 visible between the third median nervule and submedian nervure) ; outer margin of posterior wings 

 distinctly paler from about the lower subcostal nervule. Body and legs more or less concolorous 



with wings. 



Female. Apical angle of the anterior wings not prominently falcate. Resembling male, but differing 

 on anterior wings by having a large subapical yellowish patch, and by the fuscous ()bli(iue fascia being only 

 denoted by an irregular spot at end of cell. Posterior wings with the marginal fascia only denoted by the 

 marginal borders as in male. Wings beneath as in male, but paler, and with the white spots much 

 more obscure. 



Exp. wings, S 60 to 80 millim. ; ? (two examples), 68 to 70 millim. 



Hab.*— Tenasserim (Moore).— Malay Peninsula; Province Wellesley (colls. Dist. and Saiier) ; 

 Malacca (Pinwill, Brit. Mus.)— Java (coll. Dist.) 



This species varies much in the colour of the wings beneath, and is a very close ally of the 

 Javan species, D. hisaltide, Cram. From this it differs principally in the female sex, which in 

 D. hisaltide has the pale subapical patch and also the complete oblique subapical fuscous fascia. 

 I), jmitipa is clearly a local race of Cramer's species, and is treated here as a distinct species, 

 in consonance with the previous method, and on the hnes already laid down in this work, t 



Genus PRECIS. 



Precis, Hiibuer, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 33 (181G) ; Feld.Neues Lep. p. 13 (1861) ; Moore, Lap. Ceyl. i. p. 39 (1881). 

 Jmonia, sect. 2, Doubl. Gen. Diurn. Lep. p. 209 (1849). 



Anterior wings subtriangular, the costal margin very strongly arched and convex; apical angle 

 obliquely truncate and prominent, and together with remainder of outer margin distinctly waved ; beneath 

 the apical angle the outer margin is strongly sinuated and concave, after which it is convex to posterior 

 angle ; inner margin more or less concave. Costal nervure short ; first and second subcostal nervules 

 emitted close together near end of cell ; third emitted about half-way between end of cell and apex of wing ; 

 fourth and fifth bifurcating at about one-fom-th from apex. Upper disco-cellular nervules angled at apex of 

 cell and concave to lower discoidal ner^le ; lower disco-cellular nervule slender and indistinct, or somewhat 

 obsolete. Discoidal nervules well separated at their base ; first median nervule rounded at base, where it 



=:= Mr. Moore (Proc. Zool. Soc, 1877, j). .■)84) has recorded this species as from the Andaman Islands, but this habitat 

 lias not been corroborated by Messrs. Wood-Mason and De Niceville. in then- Catalogue of the Khopalocera of those islands. 

 Mr. Kirbj-, in his Catalogue ip. 193), has also given '■ Moluccx- " as a habitat, which is clearly a misprint. 



I D. hisaltide is a somewhat rare insect; male and female specimens are contained in the Horsfield Collection which 

 agree with Cramer's figure. Several other specimens were confused, however, under the same name, which on examination 

 with Mr. Butler, proved to be both male and female D. polibete. Cram., a species which is quite distinct and not synonymous 

 with D. hisaltide, as stated in Mr. Kuby's Catalogue (p. 193). D. jiolihete has both sexes veiy similar, and not distmct as 

 in D. hisaltide and D. pratipa ; it is also a wide-ranging species, as I possess specimens both from Java and the Andaman 

 Islands. In all these species it appears that the brightest white spots on the under smfaces of the wings are developed in the 

 male only. 



Februaky 28, 1883. 2 A 



