RHOPALOCERA MALAVAXA. U)7 



and posterior segments) long branched red spines, and three lateral rows of spines. Puj)a 

 thick, purple-brown, blotched with black ; abdominal segments with stout pointed dorsal 

 tubercles; head obtuse, pointed in front; thorax angular at top." The larval food-plant is 

 not given; but Mr. Lockwood, at Monghyr, found the perfect insect on the leaves of the 

 "creeping fig" (Finis irpeiis),* which may, or may not, give some clue to the same. 



2. Hypolimnas incommoda. (Tab. XVII., fig. 8 ,? , 9 ? .) 



Hi/poliiiiitas iiicoiniiioila, Butler, Trans. Linn. Soe. ser. 2, Zool. vol. i. p. 513. n. 2 (1877). 



The male and female typical specimens, which are contained in the British Museum, and 

 are here figured, constitute at present our sole knowledge of the species. I therefore simply 

 append the original description : — 



" ,? very similar to the male of //. boUiui, but with the sul)ai)ical band of primaries straigbter on tlie 

 underside, and the pale l)rown submarginal spots narrower and darker ; expanse of wings, 3 inches 1 liuf. 

 S differs from the female of //. huliini in having a l)road oblique sufiapical white baud on the upperside of 

 primaries, a large diffused sordid white patch just beyond the cell of secondaries, and the submarginal 

 spots all separated, small, and pale brown : expanse of wings, 3 inches 11 lines." 



H.U3. — Malay Peninsula ; Malacca (Pinwill — Brit. Mus.). 



3. Hypolimnas misippus. (Tab. XII., figs. 9 and 11 <? ; XV., fig. 11 5 .) 



Papilio Misippns, Linnseus, Syst. Nat. ed. xii. p. 7()7, n. 118 (1758) ; Midi. Naturs. V. i. p. 597, u. 118 (1774). 



Papllio Bolimi, Dru. (uec Liun.), Ill.Ex.Ent. i. t. li, f. 1, 2 (1773) ; Cram. Pap. Ex. i. t. 65, E, F (177i»). 



Papilio Diocippnt:, Cram. Pap. Exot. i..p. 44, t. 28, B, C (1775) ; Fabr. Ent. Syst. iii. 1, p. 61, n. 158 (1793). 



Papiliu Chri/sijijiiin, Sulz. Gescli. Ins. p. 114, t. 10, f. 3 (1770). 



Papilio Chri/sip/jiis, fl. Diocipjnis, Gmel. Syst. Nat. i. 5, p. 2279, u. 119/3. (1790). 



Eupltea Dioxijipe, Hiibu. Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 15, n. 88 (181G). 



Danais Misippe, Godt. Enc. Meth. ix. p. 188, n. 40 (1819). 



Nijmpliali.'i Misiji/u', Godt. Enc. Meth. ix. p. 394, n. 153 (1823). 



Biadema Polina, Boisd. (nee Linn.), Faune de Madag. p. 39, u. 1 (1833) ; Lucas, Sagra, Hist, de Cuba. ^i. TiCO 



(1853); Trim. Ehop. Afr. Austr. p. 153, n. 91 (1862). 

 Apatuni Misippus, Moore, Lep. Ceyl. i. p. 59, t. 29, f. 1 b (1881). 

 Diadewa Misippus, Mab. Bull. Soc. Zool. de Fr. 1870, p. 275; Suell. Tijd. Ent. xix. p. 149, n. 25 (1870); 



iljid. XX. p. 00 (1877). 

 Hi/poli>ii)uis iiiisijipns, Kirby, Cat. Dim-n. Lep. p. 225, n. 2 (1871 1 ; Wood-Mas. & de Nic. .J.A.S. Beng. vol. i.. 



pt. 11, p. 233, n. 21 (1881) ; Aurivill. Kongl. sv. vet. Akad. Handl. Bd. 19, no. 5, p. 71 (1882). 



Male. Wings above very dark indigo-ldue ; anterior wings with an oblong subapical white spot 

 divided by the fourth and fifth subcostal nervules ; a large elongated white spot on disk passing apex of cell, 

 commencing beneath subcostal nervure and terminating between the second and third median nervules ; 

 posterior wings with a large irregularly rounded discal white spot, commencing on lower half of cell and 

 bounded by the first subcostal and the third median nervules ; these spots on both wings are surrounded 

 by bright but evanescent blue ; fringe alternately greyish. Anterior wings beneath with the large discal 

 spot as above, but extending to costa, and more or less margined with fuscous, and before which the 

 colour is pale castaneous, beneath it fuscous and beyond it ochraceous ; basal half of costal area fuscous, 

 irrorated with minirte bluish grey spots ; cell with three upper white spots broadly and irregularly 

 surrounded with black ; subapical spot as above, followed by a small spot on each side of lower su1)costal 



* ' Nat. History, Sport, aud Travel," p. "204. 



