IGO RHOPALOCERA MALAY AN A. 



3. Athyma idita. (Tab. XVI., figs. 9 s and 10 2 .) 



At/n/ma blita, Mooro, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1858, p. 10, u. 16, t. 51, f. 3; Druce, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1873, p. 3i4, 

 n. 4 ; Butl. Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2, Zool. vol. i. p. 541, u. 8 (1877). 



Male. Wings above very dark fuscous or Ijlack, with the following pale hluish-wbite markings :— 

 anterior wings with a long slender cellular streak and an irregular subtriangular spot at end of cell ; two 

 elongate subapical spots, divided by the upper diseoidal nervnle ; an oblique discal series of five spots, of 

 which the two upper and outer are smallest and situate on each side of the first median nervule, the fourth 

 and fifth largest, and only separated by the submedian nervure ; a submarginal series of small spots, of 

 which the third and fourth are very minute, followed by two small spots, one on each side of the upper 

 diseoidal nervnle ; a marginal and submarginal narrow obscure dark fascia, between which the colour is 

 slightly paler, and the fringe alternately greyish ; posterior wings with a transverse macular fascia near 

 base, and an outer discal series of contiguous sub(juadrate spots which are nearest outer margin near apex 

 and most remote from the same at anal angle ; a distinct pale fuscous submarginal fascia and the fringe 

 alternately greyish. Wings beneath brownish ochraceous, white markings as above, but generally larger ; 

 anterior wings with the cellular streak and spots bounded with fuscous, the last followed by a fuscous line ; 

 sulimarginal spots much larger than above, the second to the sixth containing fuscous centres and slightly 

 tinged with violaceous ; a distinct outer submarginal series of linear subviolaceous spots not extending to 

 apex ; fringe as above ; the colour beneath the third median nervule more or less fuscous ; beneath cell is 

 a cleft blackish spot followed by violaceous. Posterior wings marked as above, liut with an additional 

 basal curved fascia, the pale fuscous submarginal fascia above pale violaceous beneath, and the outer discal 

 series of pale spots preceded by a series of lanceolate obscure dark castaneous spots ; fringe as above ; 

 abdominal margin greenish. Body above concolorous with wings, the abdomen with a broad basal whitish 

 fascia ; body beneath greyish white, tinged with pale greenish, the intermediate and posterior tibije and 

 tarsi more or less tinged with brownisli. 



Female. Larger than the male, and with the pale spots and fasciffi larger. 



Exp. wings, S 58 to G3 millim. ; 2 70 millim. 



Hab.— Malay Peninsula ; Province Wellesley (coll. Dist. and Sauer) ; Malacca (Pinwill— Brit. Mus.)— 

 •Java? (Moore). — Borneo (Druce). 



Ill the British Museum are some specimens of this species labelled "India" {sic), but 

 I have no other knowledge of it being found west of the Malay Peninsula. 



4. Athyma pravara. (Tab. XVI., fig. 11 2 .) 



Ailnjiiia /ininini, Moore (Horsf. & Moore), Gat. Lep. Mus. E.I.C. i. p. 173, n. 354, t. 5n, f. 4 (1857); Proc. 

 Zool. Soc. 1858, p. 19, n. 22; Butl. Trans. Liun. Soc. ser. 2, Zool. vol. i. p. 541, n. 9 (1877). 



Male and Female. Wings above dark fuscous or blackish, with the following pale lemon-coloured 

 spots and markings :^anterior wings with a long cellular streak widening and rounded at apex ; an oblique 

 series of three subapical spots divided by the diseoidal nervules, the central one of which is largest ; these 

 are followed by three small linear submarginal spots, divided by the second and third median nervules ; 

 three submarginal linear spots, divided by the diseoidal nervules and an oblique discal series of three spots, 

 the upper two largest, divided by the third median nervule, and the third linear contiguous to the 

 second, and situate on inner margin ; fringe alternately greyish ; posterior wings with a transverse macular 

 fascia near base, an outer discal series of subquadrate spots placed as in A. idita, and a pale fuscous 

 submarginal fascia. Wings beneath olivaceous-brown, the pale markings as above, the posterior wings 

 with an additional short pale basal fascia ; a distinct series of fuscous spots above the outer discal macular 



