RHOPALOCERA MALAY AX A. 183 



b. Posterior icings pronnnodhi ciiiuUtte. 

 2. Terinos teuthras. (Tab. X., iig. 6c?.) 



Terinos Tcullimx, Hewitson, Proc. Zool. Soc. 18G2, p. 89 ; Butler, Trans. Liun. Soe. sur. 2, Zool. vol. i. p. 514, 



11. 1 (1877). 

 Terinos rioln, Wall. Tnius. Eiit. Soc. 1869, p. 343. 



Male. Wings above dark violaceous ; anterior wings with a large dark brownish silky patch as in 

 preceding species, but which extends a little above the upiu'r discoidal nervule and inwardly to the lower 

 disco-cellular nervule ; posterior wings with a similar patch near apex, which does not extend to the outer 

 margin, and is continued to between the lower subcostal and the discoidal nervules ; some large marginal 

 conical whitish spots about centre of outer margin, through which extends a waved dark violaceous 

 submarginal fascia ; a dark marginal fascia and the fringe greyish. Wings beneath brownish, with steely 

 reflections ; anterior wings with the cell crossed by two narrow waved reddish fasciae, beyond which is a 

 similar very broad and marginally waved fascia crossing both wings ; this is also succeeded on both wings 

 by a narrow bluish lunulate line, which on posterior wings is placed in front of some reddish spots situate 

 between the nervules ; the anterior wings possess a pale apical patch enclosing a dark spot and a pale 

 submarginal fascia; the posterior wings have an ochraceous much-waved submarginal fascia, on each side 

 of which the colour is pale bluish. Body more or less concolorous with wings; legs ochraceous. 



Long., (? , 80 to 90 millim. 



Hab. — Malay Peninsula ; Penang (coll. Gosse) ; Province W^ellesley (coll. Dist.) ; Malacca (Pinwill — 

 Brit. Mus.) ; Singapore (Brit. Mus.). 



I liave not yet seen a female specimen of this species, which is apparently confined 

 to the Malay Peninsula, for though Mr. Hewitson described it as from "India," that vague 

 term in all probability is really applicable to some portion of this area. 



I have included the T. viola, Wall., as a synonym of this species, to which the description 

 exactly applies, and though Mr. Wallace refers to it he evidently was ignorant of its nature 

 and localises it with doubt to "East India." Mr. Kirby* treats T. viola as a synonym of 

 T. terpandcr, Hew. (^ T. darissa, Doub., Hew. nee Boisd.), f but the colour of the margin to 

 the posterior wings will effectually prevent any confusion. 



Genus CYNTHL\. 



Cynthia, Fabricius, 111. Mag. vi. p. 281 (1807) ; Duubl. Geu. Diuru. Lep. p. 212 (1849) ; Moore, Lep. Ceyl. i. 



p. 52 (1881). 

 Anartia (part), Hiibn. Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 33 (1810). 



Anterior wings subtriangular ; costal margin arched and convex ; apex rounded and somewhat 

 falcately produced, beneath which the outer margin is concavely sinuated and waved ; inner margin 

 sinuated, somewhat concave at centre. Costal nervure extending to rather beyond centre of costal 

 margin ; first subcostal nervule emitted a little before and second just beyond end of cell, thu-d emitted 

 a little before the bifurcation of the fourth and fifth, the fourth distinctly and convexly bent. Upper 

 discoidal nervule short and oblique, the middle disco-cellular concave and about half the length of the 

 lower, which is obliquely concave ; median nervules well separated, the second emitted a short distance 



* Syu. Cat. Diuru. Lep. p. 1.51. I Geu. Diuru. Lup. t. 21, f. 3. 



