148 KHOPALOCERA MALAYANA. 



1. Limenitis procris. (Tab. XVII., fig. 1 <? .) 



l\,,,ilio I'yocris, Cramer, Pap. Ex. ii. t. 100, E F (1779). 



Xi/mpkaUs Procris, Godt. Enc. Moth. ix. p. -404, ii. 178 (1823). 



Biblis Procris, Horsf. Cat. Lep. E.I.C. t. viii. f. 4 (18'29). 



Limenitis Procris, Horsf. & Moore, Cat. Lep. Mus. E.I.C. i. p. 179, u. 302 (1857) ; Druce, Proc. Zool. Sec. 



1873, p. 343, u. 1 ; Bull. Trans. Linu. Soc. ser. 2, Zool. vol. i. p. 541, n. 1. 

 Var. I.imrnitis anarta, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1877, p. 585. 

 Limmitis jtrocris, var. anarta, Wood-Mas. & de Nic. .Journ. Asiat. Soc. Beug. vol. xlix. p. 229, n. 33 (1880). 



Male and Female. Wings above bright ferruginous. Anterior wings with the cell crossed by three 

 black lines, and with the same number between the third median nervule and the suhmediau nervure ; 

 beyond cell the whole disk of the wing is triangularly blackish, containing an oblique series of five white 

 spots, situate one at end of cell, three separated by the median nervules, the fifth and smallest on inner 

 margin ; four or five subapical white spots, of which two linear and smallest are subcostal (one only on 

 specimen figured), two, largest, separated by uj^per discoidal nervule, and one very small beneath the lower 

 discoidal nervule; a broad submarginal waved black fascia and two narrower marginal fasciae of the same 

 colour, which sometimes become fused as in the specimen figured. Posterior wings with the cell crossed 

 by two pairs of blackish lines and with a few small black markings above cell ; a broad central oblique 

 white macular fascia continuous to the central spots of anterior wings, terminating at submedian nervure, 

 its inner margin somewhat regular and narrowly bordered with black, its outer margin scalloped and 

 broadly margined with black ; this is followed by a series of blackish spots placed between the nervules 

 and marginal and submarginal fasciae, much as on anterior wings, but the inner one terminating at anal 

 angle in two small spots. Wings beneath with the white markings as above ; anterior wings with the 

 basal area before the white spots (which are margined with black), very pale olivaceous ; the third and 

 fourth lines in cell including a bright reddish spot, and the same beneath cell ; the black discal area above 

 reddish beneath, the three lower subapical white spots being situate in long and somewhat linear black 

 spots ; submarginal black fascia very much broken and subobsolete ; marginal fasciffi as above ; marginal 

 area pale violaceous. Posterior wings with the whole basal area to just beyond the white fascia, very pale 

 olivaceous ; marginal and submarginal faseiie as on anterior wings, but the last more obsolete and only 

 denoted by a series of spots. Body and legs more or less concolorous with wings. 



Exp. wings, <? 58 to 08 millim. ; 2 (one spec), 72 millim. 



Hab. — Continental India ; Silhet (Brit. Mus.) ; Darjeeling (coll. Dist.) — Andaman Islands (Moore). — 

 Malay Peninsula ; Penang, Province W^ellesley (coll. Dist. & Saiier) ; Malacca (Pinwill — Brit. Mus.) — 

 Sumatra (Forbes — -coll. Dist.) — Banca.'*^ — Java (Brit. Mus.) — Borneo (coll. Godm. & Salv.) ; Sandakan 

 (Pryer— coll. Dist.). 



The Andaman form described by Mr. Moore under the name of J>. anarta, f which 

 I have followed Messrs. Wood-Mason and de Niceville in considering a variety of the species, 

 appears to constantly differ by the smallness or absence of the white spot at the end of the 

 cell of anterior wings. 



The larva and pupa as found in Java are figured by Horsfield, I who describes the first as 

 feeding " on a species of Naiirlea bearing the native name of Klrppu." § 



* CoUected by M. Teysmanu (Pet. Noiiv. Eut. vi. p. 404 (1874). f Proc. Zool. Soc. 1877, p. 585. 



I Cat. Lep. E.I.C. t. viii. f. 4, 4 a. § Horsf. & Moore, Cat. Lep. Mus. E.I.C. i. p. 179. 



