nnnpALOCKnA malayaxa. 



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2. Euripus pfeifferae.* 



Eun'iiu.i F/'fiff'fnr, Felder, Wieii. Eat. Mon. iv. p. 



2H;j. 11. 82, t. :i. f. 1 ilHfiOl 



As I only know this species bj' Felder's figure and description, I here reproduce 

 both, a course necessary and justifiable when neither art; capable of exact verification with 

 specimens. 



" 2 . AliP antica? marp;ine cxterno convexo, supra 

 fuscfe, basi dilntiores, extus oliscuriores, purpurco(|ue 

 tinctffi, macula ad celluhv extiiuum soepius obsoleta 

 fasciaiiue transversa abbreviata subcostali, venis in 

 maculas quatuor subelonp;atas divisa (infima minore) 

 albis. Alae posticfe remote exciso-dentats, supra pur- 

 pureo-fuscsB, costa limboque interne dilutioribus, macula 

 cellulari elongata atomaria alba (s.ppius striis etiam 

 binis interiorilius coucoloribus). Alse subtus saturate 

 brunnes, maculis marginalibus ellipticis seriatis albis 

 Cieruleo-atomatis, anticas intus lilaeino tinctse, macula 

 fasciaque paging superioris, maculis duabus atomariis 



versus augulum internum cferulescentibus, posticaj macula striisque pagiufe superioris plus minusve 

 distinctis, maculis septem exterioribus albis cieruleo atomatis nigroque cinctis, linea angulum formante 

 digestis (prima majori). Abdomen supra nigrum, maculis lateralibus aliisque veutralibus l)iseriatis alliis." 



Exp. wings, 70 millim.t 



Hab. — Malay Peninsula; " Singapore." 



Fig. 4'^. Kiiripiis pfi'ifl'ifu-, J . 



Genus EUHYTELA. 



Eimjtela, Boisduval, Fauu. Madag. p. 54 (1833) ; Westw. Gen. Diuni. Lep. p. 408 (1851) ; Trim. I'vliop. Afr. 

 Aiistr. p. 211 (18G6). 



Anterior wings subtriangular, tbe costal margin arcbed and convex, tbe apical angle broadly 

 subtruncate, tbe outer margin oblique, concavely siuuated beneatb apical angle, and somewbat convex 

 at posterior angle ; inner margin nearly straight, slightly convex, and dilated near Ijase. Costal nervure 

 greatly swollen at tbe base ; first and second subcostal nervules emitted before, but near tbe extremity 

 of the cell : third emitted at rather less than half the distance between extremity of cell and apex ; 



■■' This species was brought from Singapore by Mail. Ida Pfeiffer, after whom it was very properly named by Felder, 

 who observes (Wien. Ent. Mon. iv.p. 285) :— "AVe have often deph)red that her collection, obtained from so many sources with 

 such wonderful application, should again be distributed in all directions, so that it is impossible, even m her own country, 

 to succeed in reuniting them."— This is unfortunately too true of most collections. Could they be retained and studied 

 as a whole much misconception as to so-called species and varieties would be avoided, and we should better know tlie 

 t-eocraphical range of some of the common species. Unfortunately such collections are usuaUy "picked by dittereut 

 specialists, their desiderata being alone eliminated, while the residue usually receive no scientific treatment whatever. 

 Conseouently faun* are very imperfectlv represented in some of the best collections, owing to the commoner or wide-ranging 

 species not being retained. These remarks are particularly applicable to the splendid collection ot Kliopalocera made by 

 Mr. Wallace in the Malay Archipelago, which are now (and, under the circumstances, inevitably) distributed ic all paits. 



Mad. Pfeiffer is well described bv Felder (ibid.) as "that marvellous woman, driven by an unconquerable lo\-c> of 

 travel." According to Petermann (■ Atlienseum,' 6th Dec. 18.^), " It took her twenty years to save enough money to perform 

 her first iourney." In all her wanderings she ardently collected insects, and in Borneo, when she accompanied hpencer 

 St. John to visit the Davaks of Sirambau. that author relates that amongst the inhabitants "Madame Pieiifer was a great 

 attraction, and a crowd followed her everywhere, and wondered at the eagerness she displayed iii the chase ol a butterfly or 

 the capture of an insect" (' Life in the Forests of the Far East,' vol. i. p. 153). 



\ Taken fi-om Felder's figure only. 



