54 lillOPALOCEn. 1 MALA YA .Y.4 . 



(Snellen).— Borneo (Brit. Mus.)— Siaiii ; Cheutabooii and Nahconchaiscc (Layard— coll. Godm. .1- Salv.)— 

 China (Brit. Mus.)— Hainan (coll. Moore). 



The priucipal variation iu this widely-spread insect is in depth of intensity in hue. The 

 species has hitherto heen almost universally known as ./. htatnaUa, Linn., but as Dr. Aurivillius 

 has recently shown that Linmeus had previously described it under the name of P. atlites, the 

 law of priority must therefore he followed. The larva and pupa of this species are described 

 and figured by Horsfield,* and the larva in Java is stated to feed on a species of Achimuthes,\ 

 bearing the native name o( Kraiia. 



2. Junonia asterie. (Tab. XL, figs. 1 j & 2 j .) 



rainlio .huric, Liiiiia'us, Syst. Nat. ed. x. p. -172, n. !»0 (1758); ibid. cd. xii. p. 709, n. 133 (1707); Houtt. 



Naturl. Hist. i. 11, p. 284, u. 90 (1707) ; Mull. Naturs. v. 1, p. 000, u. 133 (1774) ; Fabr. Syst. Ent. 



p. 490, n. 205 (1775) ; Spec. Ins. ii. p. 09, u. 312 (1781) ; Maut. Jus. ii. p. 34, n. 303 (1787) ; Eut. 



Syst. Nat. iii. 1, p. 89, u. 279 (1793); Gmel. Syst. Nat. i. 5, p. 2291, n. 133 (1790); Herbst, Naturs. 



Scbmett. vii. p. 131, ii. 42, t. 172, f. 3, 4 (1794|. 

 Pdpilio Ahmina, Clerck, Icones Ins. iii. (ined.), t. 5, f. 3 (1704) ; Tliunb. Mus. Nat. Ups. xxiii. p. 8 (1804). 

 Alcijimeis AsWrii', Hiibu. Verz. bek. Scbmett. p. 35, u. 292 (1810). 

 Vanessa Asterie, Godt. Enc. Metb. ix. p. 321, n. 58 (1819). 

 Jiinimia Asterie, Horsf. & Moore, Cat. Lep. Mus. E. I. C. i. p. 142, n. 287 (1857) ; Butl. Cat. Fabr. Lep. p. 72, 



n. 1 (1809); Traus. Liun. Soc. ser. 2, Zool. vol. i. p. 545, u. 5 (1877) ; Druce, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1874, 



p. 105, n. 3; Suellcu, Tijd. Ent. xix. p. 151, n. 35 (1876) ; ibid. xx. p. 60 (1877) ; ibid. xxi. p. 14, 



u. 00 (1878); Wood-Mas. & de Nic. J. A. S. B. vol. xlix. p. 227, n. 18 (1880); Moore, Lep. Geyl. i. 



p. 43, t. 22, f. 2 (1881) ; Aurivill. Kougl. sv. vet. Akad. Haudl. Baud. 19, p. 79 (1882). 

 Junonia asterie, var. ni/idhariensis, Feld. Verb. Zool. Bot. Ges. xii. p. 482, u. 110 (1862) ; Wood- Mas. A do Nic. 



J. A. S. B. vol. L. p. 233 (1881). 

 Junonia asterie, var. Jaeana, Feld. Verb. Zool. Bot. Ges. xii. p. 487, n. 130 (1862). 



Male and Female. Wings above warm ochraceous, with the basal areas of both wings slightly 

 infuscated, and with the following markings : — anterior wings with the costal area pale fuscous and with an 

 irregular fascia denoted by black margins crossing centre of cell, and a similar one with its internal area 

 infuscated at end of cell ; this is followed by a somewhat similar but darker fascia, which terminates at 

 base of first median nervule, between which and apex is a subtriangular black patch more or less enclosing 

 two ocellated spots divided by the upper discoidal nervule ; a large ocellated spot placed on the centre of 

 the second and third median nervules, with a white centre and black outer margin and a marginal and two 

 submarginal black lines, the inner one of which is generally the palest, and the spaces between which are 

 usually more or less infuscated. Posterior wings with a very large ocellated spot, purplish with two whitish 

 inner spots, an outer black patch and yellow and black margins, the upper surface of which rests on the 

 first subcostal nervule, and its posterior margin is situate between the discoidal and first median nervules, 

 and a smaller one between the second and third median nervules ; + marginal and submarginal lines as on 

 anterior wings, but the inner one darkest. Wings beneath pale obscure ochraceous ; the three basal costal 

 fasciic as on upper surface of anterior wings, but their internal areas not infuscated, and the outer margin 



* Horsf. & Moore, Cat. Lep. Mus. E. I. C. i. p. 140, t. v. f. 4, 4 a. 



I In Continental India a species o{ AcJiyranthes (A. aspersa — apamargn] is described as liavin;,' medicinal properties, 

 " the dried plant a]iplied locally tor infantile colic, also prescribed iuternallv as a laxative and promoting secretion ; the ashes, 

 containing much potash, suitable to prepare alkaline medicines and caustic pastes, as detailed bv Datt. (F. R. Hogg, M.D., 

 ' Indian Notes,' p. 20!), 1S80). j v =b. 



I In some specimens this is practically obsolete. 



