RHOPALOCERA MALAYAN A. 145 



beyond centre, and tlic second a little distance before end of cell ; third about midway between ai^ices of cell 

 and wing, and the fourth and fifth bifurcating a short distance beyond base of third ; the second and third are 

 more or less suddenly ampliated and rounded ; the fourth bent and angulated near its centre ; disco-cellular 

 nervules slender, closing cell ; first median nervule rounded and with an apparently common origin with the 

 second; second and third situate wide apart. Posterior wings subovate, the costal margin gibbous and 

 angularly rounded near base, after which it is slightly oblique and convex to apex ; outer margin rounded and 

 waved ; abdominal margin somewhat straight to abdominal apex, after which it is angulated and divergently 

 oblique to anal angle ; subcostal nervules emitted at a less distance from each other than the first is from 

 base of subcostal nervure ; lower disco-cellular nervule obsolete. Antennae long, with a gradually-formed 

 elongate club. Palpi moderately robust, hairy, porrect, and raised to about the upper level of tlie eyes. 



This is a geuus of small extent, ami apparently confiued to Continental India and the 

 Indo-Malayan Eegion. I have found no record or description of either larva or pu[)a. 



1. Lebadea martha. (Tab. XVIL, ligs. 10 <? , 11 s .) 



Papilio Martha, Fabricius, Maut. Ins. ii. p. 56, u. 555 (1787); Ent. 8yst. iii. p. 139, u. 429 (1793). 

 Aconthea Al/mkara, Horsf. Cat. Lep. E.I.C. t. 5, f. C, (1829). 

 Limenitis Alankara, Horsf. & Moore, Cat. Lep. E.I.G. i. p. 179, u. 364 (1857). 

 Limenitis Martha, Butl. Cat. Fabr. Lep. p. 59, n. 1 (1869). 



Lebadea alankara, Butl. Traus. Linn. Soc. ser. 2, Zool. vol. i. p. 541, n. 1 (1877). 



Lebadea martha, Druce, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1873, p. 343, n. 2; Butl. Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2, Zool. vol. i. p. 541> 

 n. 2 (1877). 



Male. Wings above brownish ochraceous. Anterior wings with the cell crossed by three pairs of 

 blackish lines, of which two are basal, two central enclosing a large whitish sj^ot, and two at apex ; 

 beneath cell and l)etween the third median nervule and submedian nervure are some black linear markings ; 

 beyond cell the wing is crossed by an irregular series of eight white spots divided by the nervules, of which 

 the sixth and seventh are largest, and separated by the third median nervule ; these are followed by a 

 straight series of six luuulate white spots margined with fuscous, that beneath the third median nervule 

 being duplex ; ajjex somewhat broadly white ; a waved fuscous submargiual line, margined with white, 

 and commencing beneath the fifth subcostal nervule. Posterior wings with the cell crossed by two central, 

 waved, black lines, which are continued to near submedian nervure, and two short contiguous black lines 

 near apex; a discal oblique white fascia (continuous to the series of spots on anterior wings), narrowing 

 towards anal angle and margined on each side with fuscous ; this is followed by a series of fuscous 

 lunulate spots, inwardly margined with whitish ; a submarginal line as on anterior wings, but preceded by 

 some obscure fuscous lunulate spots ; margins of both wings narrowly fuscous, with the fringe greyish ; 

 abdominal margin greyish. Wings beneath pale ochraceous ; anterior wings marked as above, but much 

 paler; posterior wings marked generally as above, but much paler, the central series of fuscous 

 lunulate spots almost obsolete, and with two fuscous lines between the bases of costal and subcostal 

 nervures. Body and legs more or less concolorous with wings. 



Female. Wings above as in male, but broader, and with the discal series of white spots much 

 attenuated, the submarginal line extending to apex, which is not white, and with the white spot absent 

 from cell. Posterior wings as in male, but with the central white fascia very narrow, and its following 

 fuscous spots not margined with white. Wings Ijeneath much paler than above, and with the markings 

 bearing the same relation to those of the upper surface as obtains in the male. 



Exp. wings, (? 52 millim. ; ? 56 to 58 millim. 

 June 30, 1883. 2 p 



