jgQ RHOPALOGERA MALAY AN A. 



black spots as above, but margined with reddisli-ocbraceoiis ; marginal and submarginal fascia as on 

 anterior wings. Body and legs more or less coucolorous with wings. 



Female. Wings above as in male, with the pale area better defined and inwardly but narrowly 

 jnargined with blackish ; beneath with the central fascias paler. 



Exp. wings, S and ? , 65 to 75 milHm. 



Hab.— Malay Peninsula ; Penang (coll. Gosse) ; Province Wellesley (colls. Dist. and Saiier) ; Malacca 

 (Pinwill— Brit. Mus.)— Borneo ; Labuan (coll. Dist.) ; Saudakau (Pryer— coll. Dist.)— Java (Horsf. & Moore 

 and coll. Dist.). 



The female of this species appears to have been described by Mr. Moore under the name 

 of C. ravana, but having received both sexes from Java, Borneo, and the Mah^y Peninsula, 

 I feel no doubt as to its sexual relation to C. hajadeta. 



5. Cirrochroa malaya. (Tab. X., fig. 4 <? and 3 2.) 



Cirrochroa Malaija, Felder, Wieu. Ent. Mon. iv. p. 399, u. 18 (1860). 



Cirrochroa Johannes, Butler, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1808, p. 221, t. 17, f. 10;* Trans. Liuu. See. ser. 2, Zool. vol.i. 



p. 543, n. 2 (1877). 

 Cirrochroa liajadcta, Moore, rar. ? 



Male and Female. Eesembling the corresponding sexes of C. hajadeta, but with the pale violaceous 

 fascia crossing the under surface of the posterior wings entire and not attenuated at the subcostal and 

 discoidal nervules as in that species ; the under surface of both wings is also generally rather darker and 

 more violaceous than in (7. hajadeta. 



Exp. wings, ^ and 2 , 63 to 70 millim. 



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



The figure of the male which is here given represents a specimen taken by Capt. Pinwill 

 in Malacca, and now contained in the British Museum, being a somewhat pale form of the 

 species. Both Mr. Butler f and Mr. Kirbyj incline to the opinion that the G. malaya, Feld., 

 is more or less synonymous with the preceding species, and the reasons why I have differed 

 from these authorities and identified it with G. Johannes are contained in Folder's diagnosis. 

 Thus the description of the under surface of the wings as " lilacino suffusis," and the pale 

 fascia to the posterior wings as " angusta recta," thoroughly applies to the species figured and 

 described by Mr. Butler, and the last character especially, in contradiction to the suddenly or 

 attenuated fascia in the other species. Felder naturally compared it to 0. hajadeta, G. Johannes 

 not having been then described, and the fact of his having thus compared it would naturally 

 lead to the supposition that he must have been cognisant of Mr. Moore's species. 



I am inclined, however, to the view that specimens will be obtained of a completely 

 intermediate character between G. hajadeta and G. malatja. 



''■'■ This figure, without a doubt, has been rendered much too liighly coloured, a contretemps which few authors have not 

 had occasion to deplore from the hands of the colourist. 

 f Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2, Zool. vol. i. p. 543. 

 [ Syu. Cat. Diurn. Lep. p. 152. 



