98 lillOl'ALOCERA MALAYANA. 



third emitted beneath apex of second and extending to apex of wing, fourth and fifth bifurcating at about one- 

 fourth from apex. Upi)er disco-cellular nervule short and aborted ; lower disco-cellular absent, the cell widely 

 open. Median nervules widely separated, the first prominently rounded at base. Posterior wings subovate, 

 the costal margin obliquely convex, the outer margin waved and sinuate, and produced into a prominent 

 caudate elongation at apex of discoidal nervule. Abdominal margins convex and overlapping near base, 

 and then distinctly concave and slightly divergent to anal angle. Costal nervure arched and extending to 

 apex ; discoidal cell with the apex unenclosed ; first and second median nervules with a common origin 

 and suliparallel, the first slightly rounded. Body short, robust ; palpi large and porrect, well separated at 

 their bases, rising considerably above the upper surface of the head, flattened beneath, and terminating in 

 a long, robust, obtuse point. 



This is a genus of small extent, of wliicli about eight described species are known, and 

 these of unequal value, several of them being considered by many lepidopterists as varieties 

 only of other species. Its geographical area does not appear (according to present knowledge) 

 to occur west of Tenasserini, and it is recorded from Java, Celebes, Philippines, Amboina, 

 and Papua. 



1. Rhinopalpa fulva. (Tab. XII., fig. 1 J , 2 2 .) 



lUiinojialjiu fiilra, Felder, Wieu. Ent. RIou. iv. j). 'A'.)',), n. 21 (1860) ; Butl. Traus. Liuu. Sec. ser. 2, Zool. 

 vol. i. p. 545, n. 1 (1877). 



Male. Anterior wings above reddish ochraceous, with a broad fuscous outer marginal border, which 

 is inwardly slightly concave ; marginal fringe greyish. Posterior wings reddish ochraceous, with a broad 

 fuscous outer marginal border, narrowing and terminating about discoidal nervule, between which and the 

 anal angle are two submarginal fuscous lines, the outer one broadest and both preceded by three round 

 fuscous spots, situate two between the median nervules, and one between the first median and the discoidal 

 nervules — the colour at the area of these spots is distinctly darker ; extreme margin fuscous, with the 

 fringe greyish and a fuscous spot at anal angle posteriorly surrounded with an obovate violaceous margin. 

 Wings beneath fuscous, the basal halves darkest, where they are crossed by two irregular almost coucolorous 

 fasciic, denoted by their margins, which are pale bluish and much waved, siuuated and broken; about 

 centre the wings are also crossed by three contiguous, much-waved and sinuated pale bluish lines, the 

 outer one of which is broken and somewhat indistinct— between these lines the colour is paler, and they 

 are outwardly bounded by a waved fuscous line, which in some places becomes confluent with them ; these 

 are followed by a broad irregular dark fascia, and a submarginal row of large rounded ocellated spots with 

 blue and black centres and black margins, and situate between the nervules, six on anterior and five on 

 posterior wings (the lower spot on anterior wings is usually bipupiUated) ; two fuscous submarginal waved 

 lines, which are preceded near costal margin of anterior wings Ijy an irregularly shaped whitish spot, and 

 the inner one of which is margined on each side with pale bluish ; beyond these the colour is somewhat 

 dull red, and the marginal fringe is black, interspersed with greyish ; on anal angle of posterior wings, 

 which is reddish, is a looped black spot. Body more or less concolorous with wings, legs fuscous, and the 

 underside of the palpi and tibife and tarsi obscure ochraceous. 



Female. Larger and much i.aler in coloration than the male ; above with the black marginal border 

 of anterior wings broken towards posterior angle, and on the posterior wings not reaching outer margin ; 

 the basal third of both wings also appears distinctly darker. Beneath the wings are much paler than in 

 the male, being dull reddish ochraceous at base, and then shading into creamy white and pale ochraceous ; 

 the markings are similar to those of the other sex, but of paler and altogether different hue. 



Exp. wings, S 58 to G2 millim. ; 2 72 millim. 



