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the nervules and a marginal row of much hir^^cr subconical spots of the same colour i)lacetl upon and 

 divided by the nervules ; this bluish area is sinuatcd interiorly, and becomes shaded with greenish and 

 violaceous at and near anal angle; apical portion of abdominal margin thickly clothed with long pale 

 ochmceous hairs. Wings beneath very warm and dark ochraccous. Anterior wings with a small and very 

 pale Iduish subapical spot situate beneath the bifurcation of the fourth and fifth subcostal nervules, 

 a cluster of irregular pale spots in cell and a, long and irregularly curved one at the termination 

 of the same, which is followed by two very indistinct spots placed one on each side of the upper 

 discoidal nervule ; two pale discal spots on each side of the second median uervule, and one beneath 

 the third median nervule ; inner margin and area of the outer angle broadly suffused with fuscous, 

 the last with two bluish spots placed one on each side of the third median nervule ; above 

 these are a subobsolete and submarginal series of pale spots placed between the nervules. Posterior 

 ■wings with two pale spots in cell, a curved discal series of six or seven pale spots placed between 

 the nervules, and a submarginal series of small fuscous spots placed between the nervules, with their 

 surrounding areas somewhat pale. Body and legs more or less concolorous with wings ; anteunie 

 black, their apices warm ochraceous. 



Female. Wings above chocolate-brown, with the marginal fringe alternately concolorous and 

 pale greyish, and with the following yellowish spots : — anterior wings witli three spots in cell, two at its 

 termination, followed by two placed one on each side of the upper discoidal nervule ; an oblique discal 

 series of seven spots placed between the nervules, two beneath cell, situate one on each side of second 

 median nervule, a cluster of five irregular spots near base and between third median nervule and sub- 

 median nervure, and an outer submarginal series, placed between the nervules, increasing in size towards 

 outer angle ; a small yellowish streak on inner margin near its apex. Posterior wings with the following 

 yellowish spots : — three beneath costal nervure, three between first and second subcostal nervules, four 

 between lower subcostal and discoidal nervules, three in cell (the iirst being only a small basal streak), three 

 beyond cell before the tirst median nervule, two beneath cell placed one on each side of second median 

 nervule and two on basal half of abdominal margin ; and three large spots — denoted by pale bluish 

 margins with anterior and posterior yellowish spots — near anal angle divided by the second and third 

 median nervules. Anterior wings beneath greenish ochraceous, darker and somewhat bluish at area 

 of median nervules, marked generally as above, but spots larger and pale bluish grey, those in and at 

 termination of cell fused and the cluster of spots beneath base of cell obsolete. Posterior wings beneath 

 pale greenish, the basal half more or less suffused with ochraceous ; spots as above, but much paler. 

 Body above chocolate-brown, with the following yellowish spots : — six thoracic (two anterior, two central, 

 and two posterior), and four at base of abdomen ; a narrow lateral streak on each central side of thorax, 

 and a small spot at extreme base of wings ; body beneath and legs more or less concolorous with wings. 



Exp. wings, 3 76 to 95 millim. ; 2 9'2 to 109 millim. 



Hab. — Malay Peninsula ; Province Wellesley, Penang (colls. Dist. and Saner) ; Malacca (Pinwill— 

 Brit. Mus.) — Sumatra (Forbes, coll. Dist.) — Billiton (coll. Godm. & Salv.) — Banca.* — Java (Brit. Mus.) — 

 Borneo (coll. Godm. & Salv.) ; Sandakan (Pryer — coll. Dist.) ; Banjermasin (coll. Dist.) 



This species attains its maximum size iu the Malay Peninsula; at least such is the 

 evidence of a long series now before me. Tlie species varies considerably in Borneo, where 

 male specimens occur agreeing with the one here figured from Province Wellesley, while smaller 

 ones are found which have the marginal spots to the posterior wings larger, t 



* Coll. by il. Teysmann (Pet. Nouv. But. vi. p. 404 (1874). 



t Mr. Butler (Proc. Zool. Soc. 1868, p. 613) has described these small and dark Boruean specimens as a "local race":— 

 " Alis minoribus obscurioribus, autennis iulvo acuminatis." Another local race from Hainan has been specifically differentiated 

 by Mr. Moore under the name of S. pardalis (Proc. Zool. Soc. 1878, p. 6119). 



June 30, 1883. '^ g 



