110 HJIOPALOCERA MALAYAN A. 



Genus PROTHOE. 



Pn,tho,; Hiibuer, Samml. Ex. Schmett. (ISlO— 1841 1 ; Westw. Gen. Dinrn. Lep. p. '2CfJ (1850). 



Anterior wiiij^s suLtriangular. the costal margin arclu'd and convex, the apex rounded and Hon- 

 or sub-prominent, the outer margin nearly straight, (U' more or less concave about the centre, and in 

 some species distinctly waved. Costal nervure short, somewhat suddenly reflexed to costa a little 

 beyond end of cell; first and second subcostal nervules emitted before the end of cell, the distance 

 between their bases, and that l)etween the base of second and end of cell being subequal ; third 

 emitted at about one-fifth beyond end of cell and extending to apex, its apical third somewhat 

 "ilibous or convex ; fourth and fifth bifurcating a little beyond the base of third ; the fourth defiexed 

 and concave beneath the convex portion of third. Upper disco-cellular nervule short and oblique, 

 middle disco-cellular suberect, lower disco-cellular prominently curved and rounded inwardly at base, 

 and then obliquely continued to apex ; median nervules situate wide apart. Posterior wiugs obovate, 

 the costal margin moderately oblique and convex, the outer margin more or less prominently waved 

 and produced in a broad, spatulate, caudate, outwardly curved prolongation between the first and second 

 median nervules ; abdominal margin ample and slightly convex at the body, and then divergent and 

 oblique to anal angle. Precostal nervure suberect and curved inwardly at apex ; costal nervure rounded 

 and extending to apex ; second subcostal nervule and discoidal nervule with an apparently common origin ; 

 dicoidal cell completely open. Palpi placed close to the face. Body small ; thorax robust. Antennae with 

 a long and gradually formed club. 



I 'ml hue is a Malayau genus, being fouiul throughout the Indo- and Austro-Malayau 

 regions. It does not apparently occur west of Teuasseriui, and is found as far east as 

 New Ireland (this is probably not really the eastern limit of the genus, but represents 

 at present the limit of our knowledge).* Not more than some half dozen species are 

 described, one of which is alone here included. Another species, however, P. fmiickii, Godt., 

 is almost certainly found in the Peninsula, as Mr. Wallace t gives Malacca as a habitat of the 

 species. I have, however, been unable to find a Malaccau specimen, and though Mr. Hewitsou 

 subsequently acquired Mr. Wallace's PJiopalocera, the species is not recorded from Malacca 

 in the posthumous Catalogue of the Hewitsonian collection. As it is also recorded by 

 Mr. Moore from Tenasserim, I the probability of its occurring in our region becomes greater. 



1. Prothoe Caledonia. (Tab. XIIL, fig. 9 <? .) 



Xiliiipliiilis rali/donii(, Hewitsou, Esot. liutt. i. p. 80, t. 43, f. 3, 4 (18.55). 



('Iicirii.i-es (■(ihjdiinia, Butl. Proc. Zool. 8oc. 18(55, p. 088. 



I'rothoi' calciliinia, Piutl. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1807, p. 874. 



Xi/i)i/iJi((/i.s'> Calfiliinia, Kirby, Syu. Cat. Diurn. Lop. p. 273, n. 58 (1871). 



Male. Anterior wings pale sulphur-yellow, with the base very pale bluish, and with rather more 

 than the apical half dark shining hiscous ; the inner margin of this blackish coloration commences 

 narrowly at base of costa, and gradually widening obliquely crosses the cell a little Ijeyond the middle, 



■ Mr. Butler ll'roc. Zool. Soc. 1807, p. 873) recommended that :ui Al'ric.in species generally known as Cliara.ccs hercnicr 

 should also be place^d in this rcuus. It has, however, structural peculiarities which have warranted M. Mabille (Bull. Soc. 

 Zool. de France, 1870, p. 280) in foundinj; a new tjenns for its reception, and eonseipiently Africa cannot be considered 

 as a habitat of Prothoe. 



t Trans. Ent. Soc. 180!), p. 80. 



I Proc. Zool. Soc. 1878, p. 83'i. Mr. Moore, in this paper (ihlil. p. H',i) i,'ives also the Malay Peninsula as a habitat 

 of P.franchii, which was probably copied from Wallace, as he possesses no specimen fioni that locality, and, thoufjh he kindly 

 searched for me, could find no authority for the same iu his notes. 



