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fourth and liftli bifurcating' at about two-tliinls lieyond cell and exteiidiujj: laturally to apical margin. 

 Upper disco-cellular nervule short and oblique; middle disco-cellular curved and oblique, not much 

 longer than lirst ; lower diseo-eellular, slender, suberect, and uniting with median nervure at base of 

 first median nervule, which is curved outwardly at base, and possesses an apparently common origin with 

 the second. Posterior wings subovate or subtriangular ; costal margin very oblique, nearly straight, and 

 but slightly convex, outer margin roinided and scalloped, al)dominal margin obli(|ue from end of body to 

 anal angle : precostal nervure suberect ; first subcostal nervule emitted a little before, and the second 

 subcostal emitted at upper extremity of the cell ; lower disco-cellular nervule slender and rudimentary, 

 apparently almost closing cell. Body of moderate size ; anteuuaj slender with a short club obtusely pointed 

 at the tip ; palpi elongate, slender and porrect. 



This may be cousidered an xltVicau genus, for it is on that continent and Madagascar that 

 its focus or head-quarters are found. Two species alone are recorded from the East, and 

 hoth of these inhabit the Indo-Malayan region, though not altogether conhned to it, as 

 one species occurs in the Andaman Islands. 



The position of this and the following genus Er(joUs in the Xiimplialiua is a somewhat 

 aberrant one, owing to the dilatation of the costal nervure — a character which is principally 

 found in the Satijrime. Prof. Westwood placed both in the family Eurijtelidce* a very 

 heterogeneous group, and one now seldom used, though I am not at all satisfied with the 

 position in which I have placed these genera here. 



We know little of the transformations of the species of this genus. Mr. Gooch f states 

 that the larva and pupa of an African species, E. hiarhas, as found in Natal, are " both 

 conspicuous by their forms. The larva has two long divergent clubbed and rough horns on its 

 head, and the pupa is remarkal)le by its angulated, excavated, and alated development." He 

 also remarks that " he did not establish sexual difference of markings in the larvae, although 

 some were green with black marks, and others were green all over." Tiiis was probably a 

 developmental and not sexual phase. 



1. Eurytela castelnaui. ; (Tab. XV., tig. 10.) 



l-.iinjtila Cisti'liiiiiii, Fekler, Wieu. Eut. Muu. iv. p. tUl, u. 26 (1860) ; Eeise Nov. Lep. iii. t. 61, f. o, 6 (1866) ; 

 Wall. Trans. Ent. Sou. IHG'J, p. 331, u. 1. 



Not having received this species from the Malay Peninsula, I have given a copy of 

 Felder's figure, and here append his description :■ — 



" Alls inter cilia albo lunulatis, supra cyaneis, striga submarginali undata nigra, subtus obscure 

 brunneis, basi extusque albido variegatis, strigis tribus communibus discalibus fuscis. 3 ." 

 ■' Eur. liorsfiddii, Boisd., forsitan aflinis." 

 Hab.— Malay Peninsula (Pelder) ; Singapore ^Wallace). — Sumatra (Smith §).— Borneo (Wallace). 



-■ Gen. Diiu-n, Lep. p. 403. The liurijtel'ula: were first separated by Doubleday (Cat. Lep. Drit. Mus. p. 143). 

 \ 'Eutomologist,' vol. xiv. p. 37. 



[ This species is uamed after Fras. F. de Laporte, Comte de Casteluau, better known, under the name of Laporte, as an 

 entoniolofiist of renown and an accomplislied naturahst. Official duties carried him to almost, if not to all, the quarters of 

 the world at least, and in all he pursued his natural-history studies. The above species was probably collected during an 

 excursion made to Malacca whilst he held the position of 'French Consul at ISiam. He died at Melbourne in 1880, whilst 

 presiding at that Consulate, in his seventieth year. 



§ In Bock, " Head Hunters, Borneo." Append. V. 



