RHOPALOCERA MALAVANA. 105 



Female. Eesemhling the male, but witli the central white fascia to the wings above onl}' faintly 

 and slightly margined and followed by pale blue, and the marginal fascia to posterior wings more 

 ochraceous and continued to apex ; on anterior wings is an additional small white subapical spot placed 

 above the upper discoidal ncrvule. 



Exp. wings, ^ and 5 , 95 to 98 millim. 



jjiB. — Malay Peninsula ; Malacca (colls. Brit. Mus. and Dist.) — Billiton (Godm. & Salv.) — -Tava (coll. 

 Horsf. and Brit. ]\Ius.) ; Batavia (Snellen). — Borneo (colls. Dist. and Godm. & Salv.) 



This species appears to be contiiied to the true Indo-Malayan reniou. It has not yet been 

 recorded from Teuasserim, and probably does not extend northward or westward of the area 

 here faunistically treated. 



3. Charaxes delphis. (Tab. XV., fig. 1 <? .) 



CJi/n-(i.res Delphis, Doubleday, Aun. Soc. Ent. France, 1843, p. 217, t. 7. 

 Chnm.irs Concha, Voll. Tijd. Eut. iv. p. 1G2, t. 10, f. 1, 3 (1861). 



Male and Female. Wings above pale stramineous. Anterior wings with the costal area slightly 

 infuscated ; a small black streak on upper portion of disco-cellular uervules, and the whole apical third 

 black ; the inner margin of this black area is much waved, and commencing at costa near end of cell 

 really and narrowly terminates at apex of third median nervule, but is apparently continued l)y two 

 elongate spots, which do not pass the submedian nervure, and do not quite reach the outer margin. 

 Posterior wings with a submarginal series of greenish lunulate spots placed between the nervules, 

 continued as streaks to the apices of the nervules, especially prominent and distinct along the three 

 median nervules. (Some markings of the under surface show more or less distinctly near posterior 

 angle of the anterior wings, and on disk of posterior wings.) Wings beneath pale silvery white ; anterior 

 wings with the apical third somewhat darker (reflecting the black area of the upper surface) ; two small 

 and irregularly shaped bluish black spots in cell ; a lunulate blue spot with black margins at end of cell, 

 outwardly followed by a contiguous black streak ; a narrow black streak above and beneath the upper 

 discoidal nervule ; a rounded blue spot with blackish margins beneath cell and between second and third 

 median nervules, and an outer submarginal series of lunulate bluish markings, outwardly followed by a 

 series of ochraceous spots. Posterior wings with a blue spot with blackish margins on about centre of 

 costal area, three curved blackish lines (diminishing in size) in and near end of cell, a short linear mark 

 of the same colour on each side of the third median nervule, and two similar ones on abdominal margin, 

 about one-third from anal angle ; a discal series of bluish lunulate spots placed between the nervules, 

 closely followed by a series of dark ochraceous spots, and again by a much-waved pale ochraceous fascia ; 

 a submarginal series of bluish elongate and linear spots placed between the nervules, and a marginal 

 corresponding series of rather larger ochraceous spots ; caudate appendages streaked with bluish. Body 

 above with the abdomen more or less concolorous with wings, the thorax and head infuscated ; thorax 

 beneath concolorous with wings, the legs dull greyish. Antennsfi fuscous. 



Exp. wings, <? 95 millim. ; 2 100 millim. 



Hab.— Continental India ; Silhet ; Assam (Brit. Mus.)— Tenasserim (Bingham— coll. Moore).— Malay 

 Peninsula; Malacca (Biggs — coll. Gosse). — Borneo; Labuan (Brit. Mus.) 



I have not seen this fine species in any of the Province WeUesley collections that have 

 passed through my hands ; but Mr. Gosse possesses both sexes from Malacca, collected there 

 by the Eev. L. Biggs, the male specimen of which I have been allowed to figure here. 



February 28, 1883. 2 e 



