RHOPALOCERA MALAYAN A. 163 



Hab. — Tenasserim , Thoi;ngyreen Valley (Brit. Mas.) — Malay Peninsula ; Penang ; Province Wellesley 

 (coll. Dist.) ; Malacca (Pinwill — Brit. Mus.) — Borneo (Druce). 



As Mr. Butler remarks,* " In the exami)les from Malacca the discoidal white streak of 

 primaries is reduced to one or two dots, connected by a pale brown streak." These white 

 spots are altogether absent from the Penang specimen here figured, l)ut are present in other 

 Province Wellesley specimens in my own collection. Bornean typical species have a whitish 

 streak and two whitish spots in cell of anterior wings. 



If we admit (as is only reasonable) that this form is but the local race or variety of the 

 Bornean species, it is at least only consistent to follow this view throughout the genus. 



bb. Sexes quite dissimilar in coloratinn. 

 8. Athyma nefte, var. nivifera. (Tab. XVI., fig. 6 <? and 7 2.) 



Papiliu nefte, Cramer, Pap. Exot. iii. t. 256, E F (1782) ; Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1858, p. 13, t. l. f. 5. 

 Athi/ma nivifera, Butler, Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2, Zool. vol. i. p. 540, u. 5 (1877). 



Male. Wings above dark fuscous or blackish. Anterior wings with a basal cellular streak closely 

 followed by a rounded spot, succeeded by a triangular spot at end of cell, all more or less suffused with 

 pale bluish ; three subapieal bluish-white spots placed obliquely and divided by the discoidal nervules ; an 

 oblique bluish-white macular discal fascia directed inwardly, commencing immediately beneath the second 

 median nervule and extending to about centre of inner margin ; a few small submarginal pale violaceous 

 spots, and narrow fuscous submarginal and marginal fasciae ; fringe alternately whitish. Posterior wings 

 with a transverse bluish-white fascia near base ; an outer discal series of small subquadrate spots of the 

 same colour placed between the nervules, and a very narrow pale fuscous submarginal fascia ; fringe as on 

 anterior wings. Wings beneath pale olivaceous-brown ; pale markings as above, but with some additional 

 central pale marginal markings on anterior wings, and a curved basal fascia to posterior wings ; on these 

 wings the pale fuscous submarginal fascia above is subviolaceous beneath, and both wings have the dark 

 fuscous markings as in A. ennhara ; abdominal margin pale greenish. Body above concolorous with wings; 

 thorax with an anterior bluish transverse fascia, and abdomen with a subbasal fascia of the same colour ; 

 body beneath and femora greyish ; tibiae and tarsi pale fuscous. 



Female. Wings above very dark brown, with all the markings larger than in male and orange- 

 yellow in hue ; the subapieal spots to anterior wings and the outer discal fascia to posterior wings being 

 prominently broader. Wings beneath as above, but much paler, with the fuscous markings as in male. 



Exp. wings, S 54 millim. ; $ 60 millim. 



Hab.— India, sic (Brit. Mus.)— Malay Peninsula ; Province Wellesley (coll. Dist.) ; Malacca (Brit. 

 Mus.)— Java (Brit. Mus.) ; Bantam (coll. Dist.) — Borneo (Brit. Mus.). 



As I have treated this Malaccan insect as simply a variety of A. neftc, it is only right 

 that I should give Mr. Butler's reasons for considering it a distinct species. He states that it 

 may be at once distinguished from the Cramerian species " by the much narrower central 

 band, which in the male is much more distinctly blue at the edges ; by the longer and narrower 

 trifid subapieal band on the male and the deeper colour of the underside." My own experience, 

 however, has not allowed me to consider these characters as sufficiently constant to indicate a 

 distinct species or race. 



" Trans. Linu. Soc. ser. 2, Zool. vol. i. p. 540. 



