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RHOPALOCERA MALAYANA. 



nervules iin.l the fourth between the second and third median uervules ; a submargiual and much-waved 

 fascia terminating at the third median nervule, where it is followed by an irregular spot, and which is more 

 or less connected along the nervules with a marginal series of spots preceded by a narrow line ; posterior 

 wings with some transversely waved linear fascije on basal area : a discal series of four rounded spots, the 

 two"upper divided by the lower subcostal nervule, and the third and fourth by the second median nervule ; 

 two waved submarginal fasciie, the innermost particularly waved and sinuated, and a marginal series 

 of elongate spots. Wings beneath as above, Ijut with most of the dark markings paler ; anterior wings 

 with the black spots near outer angle very large and prominent ; the straight series of spots beyond cell 

 arc outwardly margined with greyish, and beyond this the wing has a violaceous suffusion ; posterior wings 

 with the outer central linear dark fascia reddish and outwardly margined with greyish, beyond which the 

 colour has a violaceous tinge, and the black spots are very minute and surrounded with reddish. Body 

 above somewhat concolorous with wings, beneath greyish ; legs ochraceous, the femora greyish. 



Exp. wings, ^ and 2 , 55 to 58 millim. 



jjab.— Continental India ; N.W. Himalaya (Lang) ; Nepaul (Brit. Mus.) ; 8augor, Oudh, Calcutta, 

 Bombay (Capt. de la Chaumette).— Burma , Moulmein (Brit. Mus.)— Ceylon (coll. Dist.) — Malay Peninsula ; 

 Penan", Province Wellesley (coll. Dist.) ; Malacca (Pinwill — Brit. Mus.) — Sumatra (Snellen). — .Java (coll. 

 Dist.); Batavia (Snellen).— Siam (Brit. Mus.)— China (Brit. Mus.). 



A closely allied species is found in Africa, which, though very similar iu the perfect 

 condition, is described by Mr. Gooch, in Natal, as having the larva and pupa very different. 

 This author also observes that " at some periods of the year the imago is much darker than at 

 others"*; a remark of pregnant importance when we see the specific subdivision going on 

 around us, frequently based on such characters alone. It is a statement that may also explain 

 the melanism of some specimens of A. phalanta in my own collection. 



In the N.W. Himalaya, Capt. Lang found this species " tolerably abundant up to 8000 

 feet elevation"! whilst in the same area Mr. Hocking describes it as " found in the valleys." I 

 According to Capt. de la Chaumette, "its rapid flight makes it easily known; it does not 

 bounce about hke a true Arfuiiinis, but it is very restless." § Mr. Hutchison states that in 

 Ceylon it is " plentiful at Colombo, iu gardens, during the S.W. Monsoon, and again towards 

 the end of the year,"|| whilst Mr. Kothuey found it common near Calcutta from early May to 

 September. H 



The larva is figured {(iiitc, p. 173), and is recorded by the previously quoted authors to 

 feed in Ceylon and Continental India on Flacourtia and Salix sp., and in Java on Ixora sp. 



lui.4(i. 



Atella ahippe, ^ . 



*■ ' EntnmoloKis^t,' vol. xiv. p. 3. 

 § Ent. Mouth. Mag. vol. ii. ji. 37. 



I'ai.Uio Alrijipe, Cram. Pap. Exot. iv. t. 389, f. G, H (178'2). 



Anii/imh Alciope, Godt. Enc. Meth. ix. p. 259, u. 8 11819). 



Atrll,, akiiqie, Kirby, Syu. Cat. Diurn. Lep. p. 15-1, n. '2 (1871); Wood-Mas. 



and de Nio. J. A. S. Beugl. vol. xlix. p. 227, u. 12 (1880); ibid. vol. l, 



p. 232, n. 17 (1881). 



Male. Smaller than A. plialnntu, but resembling that species in 

 colour and markings, though differing in the following particulars : — The 

 anterior wings have the apical half of the costal margin more broadly 



t Proc. Zool. Sue. 1S65, p. 495. 

 I] Moore's Lep. Ceyl. i. p. C'i. 



I Ibid. ISy-i, p. 243. 



^ Ent. Mouth. Mag. vol. xix. p. 34. 



