1.11 HTFOPALOCERA MALAYANA. 



l>l;u-k line; a central pair of rounded oblique black lines posteriorly united, preceded by an angulated 

 bluish spot, and followed by a transverse, elongate semihyaline white spot ; beyond this is a black spot 

 followed by an attenuated white spot directed inwardly, and a white spot immediately beyond cell (all these 

 spots margined with black) ; an oblique discal series of ten white spots, divided by the nervules, the upper 

 six linear, of which the fourth and fifth are inwardly broken liy blackish ; seventh and eighth large, the 

 seventh being irregularly rounded, and the eighth subquadrate ; ninth and tenth very small, and situate 

 between the third median nervule and the submedian nervure in an area, which is bright bluish extending 

 to the inner margin ; the upper nine of these spots are margined with black, and arc followed by a straight 

 fiubmarginal black fascia, and an e(]ually broad but macular marginal fascia of the same colour ; a black 

 basal lateral fascia commencing between the third median nervule and submedian ner\'ure, and continued 

 across the base of posterior wings and thorax. Posterior wings with the basal third bluish, crossed by 

 three lateral black fasciae, of which the first is nearly straight and extends across the abdomen ; the second 

 slightly curved and suddenly and strongly attenuated between the subcostal nervules ; the third narrow, 

 curved, and macular, widening towards abdominal margin ; beyond this the colour is olivaceous, with a 

 submarginal series of triangular black spots placed between the nervules, each preceded hj duplex black 

 lines posteriorly and concavely connected: and followed by a l)lack macular marginal fascia; abdominal 

 margin subroseate. Wings beneath much paler than above ; anterior wings marked as above, but with all 

 the black markings only slightlj' indicated ; posterior wings without the basal lateral black fascije as above, 

 but with two black lines between the costal and subcostal nervnres, and an irregularly waved and broken 

 black discal line extending from upper subcostal nervule to third median nervule ; this is followed by an 

 obscure series of small blackish spots, a series of duplex linear spots as above, but smaller and outwardly 

 margined with white, a narrow submarginal but broken black fascia, and a marginal series of black 

 spots. Thorax above concolorous with the wings, with the anterior margin ochraceous, and with two broad 

 black bands; abdomen above more or less ochraceous, banded and annulated with black ; body beneath 

 and legs more or less concolorous with wings. 



Exp. wings, 92 to 100 millim. 



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

 Ih-it. Mus.) 



Many reasons advocate the view that the 1'. lilaeiuus, ButL, is but a sHght local variety of 

 the /'. (i((mhrisius, Fabr. Already Mr. Moore has described the Tenasserim form under the name 

 of r. ai)ii:alls,-\ and if these "species" are to stand then the Andaman, Sumatrau, Bornean 

 and other slightly varietal forms should also be placed in specific isolation. I 



Genus LEBADEA. 



Lrliiiiira, Folder, Neues Lep. p. 28 (1801). 



Anterior wings subtriangular, elongate, and apically attenuated in the male, broader in the female. 

 Costal margin arched and convex, the apical angle rounded, beneath which the outer margin (which is 

 snuiatL) is more or less concave ; inner margin sinuate, oblique near base and slightly concave near 

 centre, the outer margin distinctly longer than the inner margin. First subcostal nervule emitted a little 



■'■' Of tlie variety lUacinus only. f Proc. Zool. Soc. 1878, p. 829. 



; If the pniic'iple of describing sliglit but constant local varieties as distinct species is to be commended, then logic 

 would uiexorably demand that those British species of Lepidoptera whicli vary with locality shouUl also receive distinct 

 names— an achievement which the bohlest describer has not yet perpetrated. 'Au excellent paper by Mr. K. M'Lachhui, 

 contiuning general notes on variation in some British Lepidoptera may with advantage be consulted.— Trans. Ent. Soc. (1865), 

 ,,p 4o.!— 408; and als.., and particularly, Mr. Jenner Weir's "Notes on the Macro-Lepidoptera of the Shetland Isles" 

 (• I'.ntoniologist, \o\. \ui., II. -Zi'.t, cl srq.) 



