EHOPALOCEllA MALAYAN A. 153 



wings is too ferruginous, and not sufficiently olivaceous, wliilst the l)asal whitish fascia to the 

 posterior wings is not sufficiently broad. In fact this specimen agrees well witli Horsfield's 

 figure, save that it is rather browner in hue above, and the contrary has been relied upon 

 bv Mr. Moore in separating his A', omcnnla, " allied to A', vikasi, but is a much blacker insect 

 both above and below." * I cannot, however, believe that Penang f possesses a different species 

 to the widely ranging one found in Province Wellesley ; and a drawing of A'. onicniiUi kindly 

 made for me by Prof. Westwood has, in my mind, confu-mcd this viuw. 



C. Wiiu/s witli wltitisli spots and iiKifkinijs. • 



0. Neptis ophiana. (Tab. XVII. , tig. 12.) 



Xcptis i)/iliiiiii(i, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1872, p. oOl. 



Xcjitis coliiiiiflla, Moore (part), Proc. Zool. Soc. 1H58, p. 7, n. IH : llntl. (uec. Cram.i, Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2, 

 Zool. vol. i. p. 542, u. 6 (1877 1. 



Male aud Female. Wings above dark fuscous, with the following greenish white spots and 

 markings : — Anterior wings with a cellular streak gradually widening to apex, which is truncate 

 (sometimes somewhat cleft near its apex, or entire, as in the Malaccan specimen figured) ; this is 

 followed by a large aud subtriangular spot at the end of cell, beyond which are two large and irregularly 

 ovate spots placed one on each side of the upper discoidal nervule (sometimes preceded by a very small 

 spot near costa), and beneath which are two spots placed one on each side of the second median nervule ; 

 a large elongate spot on inner margin, sometimes preceded by a small spot above submcdian nervure ; 

 a submarginal series of four small spots, three near apex and one between the second and third median 

 uervules (the upper three being sometimes preceded by a small obscure spot near costa) ; posterior wing 

 with a broad transverse fascia near base, not extending above the lower subcostal nervule, and an 

 outer discal series of spots placed between the nervules. On each side of the submarginal spots on 

 anterior wings are two narrow obscure dark fascioe, sometimes followed by some paler markings ; the 

 posterior wings possess a distinct narrow submarginal fuliginous fascia. Wings beneath more or less 

 reddish ochraceous ; anterior wings with the pale spots as above, but the submarginal spots continuous 

 and preceded and followed by white markings; posterior wings with a distinct greyish fascia commencing 

 at base, but not reaching apex ; other pale markings as above, but the outer discal spots much larger, 

 and followed by a double series of linear white spots ; between the transverse fascia and the outer discal 

 spots is a transverse obscurely grejdsh line. Body above fuscous, beneath greyish ; the femora greyish ; 

 the tibiit and tarsi pale ochraceous. 



Exp. wings, 65 millim. 



Hab. — Continental India; Darjeeling (coll. Moore). — Malay Peninsula; Malacca (coll. Moore. — 

 Pinwih; Brit. Mus.). 



Malaccan specimens agree thoroughly with the type of the species (which, by the kindness 

 of Mr. Moore, is now before me), save that the discal spots are somewhat larger, and, as in the 

 specimen figured, * the basal streak is entire, though in other specimens from the same locality 

 it is ald)reviated and somewhat cleft. It appears to be sufficiently distinct, however, from 



* Proc. Zool. Soc. 1.S74, p. 571. 



t Peuang is the habitat given, but, as is so often the case with insects tluis hibelled, Province Weheslcy may probably 

 be its true locality. 



I Collected by Capt. Pinwill in Malacca. 

 June 30, 1883. '^ R 



