UQ RIIOPALOCERA MALAYANA. 



IIab. — Malaj- reninsula ; ;\l!iliicca (coll. Gosse ; Piiiwill— Eiit. Mus.) — Sumatra (Brit. Mus.) — Banca.* 

 — Java (IIor.sik'ld). — Borneo (Druce). 



I have neither received nor seen specimens of this species from Province Wellesley or 

 Penang. A male specimen collected by the Rev. L. Biggs in Malacca is represented by 

 Figm-e 10; and a Malaccan female specimen collected by Capt. Pinwill is the original 

 of Figure 11. 



All the specimens of L. alankara, Horsf., which I could examine, having proved of the male 

 sex, whilst those of L. niurtha, Fabr., have been invariably females, I have felt no hesitation in 

 considering them as but the sexes of one species, and treating them here as such. 



Genus PANDITA. 



Pamlita, Moore (Horsf. & Moore), Cat. Lep. Mus. E.I.C. i. p. 181 (1857). 



Anterior wings subtriangular, the costal margin obliquely suberect at base and then obliquely convex 

 to apex, which is subprominent and broadly rounded ; outer margin waved and sinuously and slightly 

 concave about centre ; inner margin moderately concave about centre, the outer and inner margins 

 subequal in length. First and second subcostal nervules emitted before the end of cell, the first about 

 one-third from and the second near its apex, third emitted rather less than half-way between cell and apex 

 of wing ; fourth and fifth bifurcating about half-way between base of the third and apex ; second and third 

 more or less suddenly ampliated and rounded ; the fourth angularly bent near base. Upper disco-cellular 

 uervule very short and oblique, the middle obliquel}^ concave, the lower suberect and subobsolete, indistinctly 

 closing cell : these nervules emitted at about one-third from base of wing ; median nervules generally as in 

 preceding genus. Posterior wings obscurely subquadrate ; the costal margin nearly straight at base 

 and then suddenly deflexed, and becoming slightly convex towards apex; outer margin rounded and 

 waved ; abdominal margin much as in preceding genus. Costal nervure strongly arched and very convex 

 near base. Subcostal nervules emitted at about the same distance from each other as the first is from base 

 of subcostal nervure ; lower disco-cellular nervule obsolete. Antennae very gradually incrassated towards 

 apex. Palpi much as in preceding genus. 



About three species of Vaudita are at present known,} and the area of the genus is 

 apparently confined to the Indo-Malayan region. 



1. Pandita sinope. (Tab. XII., fig. 13 ? .) 



i'awlUa Suiope, Moore (Horsf. & Moore), Cat. Lep. Mus. E.I.C. i. p. 182, u. 371, t. 0((, f. 3 (1857); Butl. 

 Trans. Limi. Soc. ser. 2, Zool. vol. i. p. 5-12, u. 1 (1877). 



Male and Female. Wings above reddish ochraceous, with rather less than their basal halves darker, 

 outwardly margined with a narrow fuscous fascia, which, commencing near costa of anterior wings, is 

 oliliquely directed outwardly beyond cell, and at median nervure is reflexed and directed inwardly to third 

 median nervule of posterior wings, when it is again narrowly reflexed towards anal angle ; between this 

 and outer margins of both wings is a somewhat broader fuscous fascia, on anterior wings following 

 somewhat the du-ection of the other fascia, but on posterior wings distinctly rounded and outwardly 

 convex ; two narrow submarginal fuscous fascite, the inner one on posterior wings very broad, and the 



* Collected by M. Teysmann (Pet. Nouv. Ent. vi. p. 404 (1874). 



I The thinl species has lately been acquired by the British Museum from Nias Island, and is now being described. 



