1(;2 RHOPALOCERA MALAYAN A. 



the nervules ; both wings with a narrow pale fuscous submarginal fascia and the fringe alternately greyish. 

 Wings beneath olivaceous-brown ; pale markings as above, but with the narrow submarginal fuscous fascife 

 above, violaceous beneath, and with the dark fuscous macular markings as in A. pravara. Abdominal 

 margin pale greenish. Body above dark fuscous, with an anterior transverse bluish fascia to thorax, and 

 a basal bluish-white fascia to the abdomen. Body beneath greyish ; legs pale brownish. 



Exp. wings, <? 50 to 54 millim. ; 2 G2 millim. 



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

 (Moore).— Borneo (Brit. Mus.) ; Sandakau (Pryer — coll. Dist.). 



The female of this species is apparently a difficult insect to find, as all the specimens 

 which I collected in Province Wellesley, or those which I have since received from the 

 Peninsula, have been of the male sex. Both sexes, collected by Mr. Pryer in North Borneo, 

 are now in my collection, and the female differs in no essential respect from the male. 



7. Athyma amhara, rar. (Tab. XVI., fig. 5 s.) 



Atlti/iiia (iiiiliiini, Druce, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1873, p. 34t, u. G, t. 32, f. 2; Butl. Trans. Liun. Soc. ser. 2, Zool. 

 vol. i. p. 540, u. G (1877). 



Male. Wings above dark fuscous. Anterior wings with some very obscure and slightly paler 

 markings in cell ; an oblique discal bluish-white macular fascia, with the margins pale bluish, commencing 

 immediately beneath apex of cell and between the second and thu'd median nervules, and terminating 

 about centre of inner margin ; two subapical whitish spots separated by the upper discoidal nervule, 

 followed beneath the second discoidal nervule by a third and very small spot, and two submarginal series 

 of linear spots placed between the nervules, the inner one more or less whitish, the outer entirely pale 

 fuscous. Posterior wings with a transverse bluish-white fascia, margined with pale bluish near base; 

 an outer discal series of small linear whitish spots placed between the nervules, and a submarginal, narrow, 

 pale fuscous, and somewhat macular fascia. Wings beneath pale olivaceous-brown ; anterior wings with the 

 l)ule whitish spots as above, but larger, the two submarginal series of linear spots almost totally pale 

 violaceous, and with an irregular cellular streak, a spot at end of cell and one beneath cell between the 

 third median nervule and submedian nervure pale violaceous ; three slightly oblique dark castaneous 

 linear spots partly crossing cell, and two rounded contiguous spots of the same colour beneath cell near 

 base ; a fuscous spot near cell between second and third median nervules ; three longitudinal fuscous 

 streaks divided by the discoidal nervules, followed beneath by a series of linear spots of the same colour 

 placed between the nervules. Posterior wings with the whitish markings as above, but broader ; the 

 submarginal fascia pale violaceous ; a basal curved whitish fascia, between which and the central fascia 

 are some linear dark castaneous markings, and a series of dark castaneous spots placed before the outer 

 discal pale fascia; abdominal margin pale greenish. Body both above and beneath more or less 

 concolorous with wings ; femora greyish white ; tibia and tarsi pale fuscous. 



Female.* Similar to the male above ; the anterior wings have the subapical spots larger ; the cell 

 with the base castaneous, and the discal fasciae to both wings rather broader and almost quite without 

 the bluisli margins. Beneath the colour is reddish-ochraceous instead of olivaceous-brown, the darker 

 markings castaneous, excepting the fuscous spots near the posterior angle of anterior wings ; pale markings 

 as on underside of male, but the discal fascia; broad as above. 



Exp. wings, 3 45 to 55 millim. 



* This description is taken from a female specimen collected iu the Thoungyeen Valley, Tenasserim, and is the only 

 e^:aulple of that sex which I have as yet had an opportunity to examine. 



