1 20 lillOPA LOCEU. 1 M. I LA YA XA . 



Male. Vei-y closely rcsembliug the correspoudiug sex of E. iiuicndiri, the upper surface being 

 indistinguishable ; the anterior wings beneath have a distinct sul)apical pale fuscous patch, and the two 

 narrow discal I'asciiB are placed wider apart, the interior one being almost obsolete and the outer one 

 waved ; both wings beneath are also somewhat paler in hue. 



Female. AVings above pale fuliginous. Anterior wings with the cell crossed by the following dark 

 fuseous lines : — one near base, two near centre with their bases connected, and two at termination, the 

 inner of which is strongly curved and the (Uiter deeply sinuate, both narrowly connected at base; 

 immediately beneath cell are a short line near outer base of third median uervule, a looped line forming 

 an irregular spot at inner base of the same nervule, and a short line near base of the submedian nervure ; 

 a submarginal series of large greyish obconical spots separated by the nervules, which occupy about 

 outer half of wing, crossed by a much-waved and dentate narrow brown fascia ; the two uppermost of 

 these spots have their centres excavated and suffused with the fuliginous ground colour, and they are 

 all conically pointed inwardly, excex)ting the lowermost, situate above the submedian nervure, which is 

 coucavely excavated. Posterior wings with the outer half (excluding margin) more or less irrorated with 

 pale greyish, its inner margin defined by a narrow waved brown fascia, and crossed by a regularly curved 

 but inwardly dentate narrow brown fascia, the cell crossed by some obscure dark lines. Wings beneath 

 2)ale ochraceous ; anterior wings with the cellular lines as above, the large obconical spots extending 

 to margin and marked as above ; lower wings as above, but much paler. Body and legs more or less 

 coucolorous with wings. 



Exp. wings, <? 52 millim. ; 2 03 to 74 millim. 



PLvB.— Malay Peninsula; Penaug (coll. Moore and Brit. Mus.) ; Malacca (Pinwill— Brit. Mus. and 

 Biggs — coll. Gosse) ; Singapore (colls. Moore and Dist.) 



The typical female specimen (Tab. XVIII., f. 8) is from Penang, and contained in the 

 <!ollectiou of Mr. Moore, whilst the variety (Tab. XV., f. 3) is from Malacca, and in the 

 possession of Mr. Gosse, to both those gentlemen my thanks being due for the loan of 

 the same. 



The females are very variable, and I have seen all the intermediate forms between the 

 two specimens here figured. The A. Indckingii, Voll.,* may also be but a variety of this species, 

 but in its typical form, as figured by Vollenhoven, certainly does not appear to be found in 

 the Malay Peninsula. 



Mr. Butler f identified the male of this species as the rupilio mouina, Fabr. \ I have not 

 followed him in this course for several reasons :— Firstly, the Fabrician type is not contained 

 m the Bauksian collection, and therefore the identification is uuverifiable ; secondly, the males 

 of a number of allied species are so similar that it seems impossible, from the description 

 of Fabricius alone, to decide upon one more than another ; and thirdly, as Mr. Moore has 

 figured his species (female specimen) it seems unnecessary to sink the same without more 

 conclusive reason. 



* Tijd. Ent. V. p. 189, t. 10, f. 3 (1800). f Proc. Zool. Soc. 1808, p. 608, n. 53. 



\ As a synouym of this species Mr. Butler (Cat. Fabr. Lep. p. 8iJ) has pkoecl the P. cocnta, Fabr., statin- that it is 



figured by Joues lu his uupubhshed ' Icones.' " The well-known American lepidopterist Mr. W. H. Edwards has, however, 



stronglyargued Canad.Entom vol x.v. p. 54)on the "utterly worthless character of the Jones drawings for identification 



ol species. i^abncius fi-equently described from these drawings without any knowledge of the locality from whence the 



origiuals came. ^ o j 



