138 RHOPALOCERA MALAYANA. 



Male and Female. Rufous or oeliraceous.* Anterior wings with a small white subapical spot placed 

 just above the bifurcation of the fourth and fifth subccstal nervules, and with the cell crossed by the following 

 dark markings :— a short and nearly straight basal line continued to submediau nervure, a double-looped 

 and much-waved line at centre, and two longer, waved, and more widely separated lines at apex ; two 

 waved discal fuscous lines crossing both wings, commencing about subcostal nervure of anterior wings, and 

 terminating near submedian nervure of posterior wings ; on both wings these are followed by a waved and 

 more indistinct line, and again by a very dark and sinuated submarginal line ; a similarly dark marginal 

 line, the fringe somewhat alternately greyish. Wings beneath very dark ochraceous or pale castaueous, 

 crossed by three very irregular dark fasciae, the first near base, the second crossing the wings about cellular 

 apices, the third between the last and outer margin ; these fascise have their margins darker, and the third 

 encloses a series of dark spots placed between the nervules (these are most distinct on the posterior wings) ; 

 marginal and submarginal lines as above, and the subapical white spot to anterior wings very distinct. 

 In male specimens the area of the median nervules, on the under surface of the anterior wings, is shining 

 greenish fuscous. Body and legs more or less concolorous with wings. 



Exp. wings, <y & 2 50 to 54 millim. 



Hab. — Continental India; N.W. Himalaya (Hocking); Assam; Madras (Horsf. & Moore). — Malay 

 Peninsula ; Province Wellesley (coll. Dist.) ; Malacca (Pinwill — Brit. Mus.) — Sumatra (Wallace). — Java 

 (Wallace) ; Batavia (Snellen). — Borneo (coll. Godm. & Salv.) ; Sandakan (Pryer — coll. Dist.) — Flores (coll. 

 Dist.) — Timor (Wallace) — Celebes (Snellen). — Siam ; Nahconchaisee (Druce). — Formosa (Brit. Mus.) 



As previously stated {ante, p. 137), the larva has been figured by Dr. Horsfield, who wrote t 

 that it " feeds on the Jarak (lliciims communis I), December." 



A closely allied form from Ceylon has been described by Mr. Moore under the name of 

 Ergolis minorata. § 



2. Ergolis merione. (Tab. XV., fig. 6 J .) 



Papilio Merione, Cramer, Pap. Ex. ii. t. 144 G H (1779). 



Ei-f/olis Merione, Biitl. Cat. Fabr. Lep. p. 70, n. 3 (18G9) ; Trans. Linu. Soc. ser. 2, Zool. vol. i. p. 545, u. 2 

 (1877) ; Wall. Trans. Eut. Soc. 1869, p. 332, n. 2. 



Male and Female. Wings above warm ochraceous. Anterior wings with a subapical white s^Dot 

 I)laced above the bifurcation of the fourth and fifth subcostal nervules, and with the following blackish 

 markings : — two lines crossing cell near base, the outer one continued to submedian nervure ; two 

 waved and zigzag lines crossing centre of cell, and continued to submedian nervure ; three waved 

 lines at end of cell not passing median nervure ; a pair of curved and very zigzag lines crossing disk at 

 about centre of wing, followed by another very waved line, commencing near the subapical white spot ; 

 a submarginal series of three waved lines, the inner one faint and somewhat macular ; the outer margin 

 black, with the fringe alternately greyish. Posterior wings with the markings similar and generally 

 continuous to those of the anterior wings, but the inner of the three submarginal lines replaced by a series 

 of castaneous spots placed between the nervules, sometimes at and along the median nervules, divided by 

 the junction of the anterior and posterior waved lines. Wings beneath duller and slightly darker than 

 above, the spaces between the waved lines (excluding the submarginal ones) castaneous, thus showing two 



* The specimen figured is a very pale female from Province Wellesley, the usual colour being more rufous above, with 

 the markings much darker beneath. 



t Horsf. & Moore, Cat. Lep. Mus. E. I. C. i. p. 145. 



J The castor-oil plant. According to Crawfurd this plant is cultivated throughout the Malayan Archipelago: — "The 

 most frequent name for it is jarak, and such we find it in the Malay and Javanese, but in the Sunda and Madurese languages 

 it is called kaliki" (Descript. Diet. Indian Islds. p. 3G9). 



§ Lepid. Ceyl. i. p. 44, t. 23, f. 2, 2 a. 



