RHOPALOCERA MALAYAN A. 185 



Hab. — Malay Peninsula ; Penang ; Province Wellesloy (colls. Dist. and Saiior) ; Sungei Ujong (Durn- 

 ford— coll. Dist.): Malacca (Pinwill— Brit. Mus.") : Singapore (Kerr— coll. Dist.)— Banca.* — Billiton (Godm. 

 and Salv.)— Sumatra (Forbes — coll. Dist.) — .Java (coll. Godm. & Salv.) — Borneo (coll. Dist.) ; Labuan 

 (Collingwood). — Celebes (Hopffer). — Philippines (coll. Godm. & Salv.) ; Luzon (Erichson). 



In Labuan Mr. Collingwood observed this si)ecies frequenting a "patch of sandy sea- 

 shore," and he remarks that when alighting upon it, "although it matched the sand well in 

 colour, it was not difficult to secure."! Its habits, however, are not exclusively littoral, and it 

 seems generally distributed over the areas in which it is found. 



2. Cynthia cantori. ; (Tab. X., hg. 5 <^ .) 



Cijntkia Canton, Distant, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 5, vol. x., p. 400 (1882). 



Male. Closely allied in colour and markings to the preceding species, C. deioue, Ericbs., from which 

 it differs above on the anterior wings by the more angulated markings in the cell, and by the central 

 transverse fuscous fascia being placed much nearer to the apex of cell, whilst on the posterior wings this 

 fascia is seen to be ahrupthj broken and deflected near the bases of the first and second median nervides ; on 

 the under surface this fracture or angulation appears much more distinctly ; the basal curved line which 

 crosses the cell in C. deione is also broken and looped in ('. cantori. 



Exp. wings, (? 68 millim. 



Hab. — Malay Peninsula; Province Wellesley (coll. Dist.). 



I have not as yet received a second specimen of this species, nor have I seen its female, 

 which will, however, almost certainly prove to be somewhat like the female of G. deione, with 

 the difference of marking detailed above as found in the other sex. 



Fam. ERYCINm^.§ 



ErijcinidfP, Swaiusou, Phil. Ma.t;. ser. 2, vol. i. p, 187 (1827) ; Westwood, 

 Gen. Diurn. Lep. p. 41.5 (1851); Bates, .Jouru. Eutomol. vol. i. 

 p. 220 (1861); ib. vol. ii. p. 176 (1864). 



Lemoniidir, Kirby, Cat. Diurn. Lep. p. 282 (1871); Moore, Lep. Ceyl. i. 

 p. 67 (1881) ; Marsh. & De Nic. Butt. Ind. Biirm. & Ceyl. vol. i. 

 p. 18 (1882). 



Eri/cinina, Snellen, Lep. v. Midden-Sumatra, p. 20 (Leiden, 1880). 



Front legs perfect in the female, in the male imperfect, the tarsi 

 consisting of one or two joints only, and spineless. 



Pupa either suspended freely by the tail, as in the Subfam. 



Fig. 47. — Anterior let's (sbowing tarsi) 

 of Abisara liiiiixambi. 



* Collected by M. Teysmanu (Pet. Nouv. Ent. 1874, p. 404). + ' Rambles of a Naturalist,' p. 183. 



I This species is uamed after the late Dr. Cautor, the well-known Malayan zoologist, whose catalogues of the 

 mammals, reptiles, and fishes belonging to the Malay Peninsula and Islands were some of the first real contributions to 

 a knowledge of the fauna. 



§ The name of this family was founded on that of Erijcina, proposed by Fabricius in 1807 for a genus of Rhopalocera, 

 but previously used by Lamarck in 180.5 for a genus of MoUusks. The generic name, therefore, as far as Khopalocera is 

 concerned, is preoccupied and falls. The question now arises whether the family name should stand, founded on a generic 

 name not rightfully appertaining to the Insecta ? The decision arrived at here, in favour of that com-se, is based on the desire 

 for uniformity, and the uncertain way in wliich the two names have been used by the authors enumerated aliove in connection 

 with the name Lemoniidw. Thus ■Vlr. Kirby founded the name (supra), but in his lepidopteral contribution to our ' Zoological 

 ^Record' he reverts to that of " Eryci/iida:." Mr. Moore uses the name " LemoniidiE " in 1881 (supra), but in the following 

 year (Proc. Zool. Soc. 1882, p. 243) he substitutes that of " Erycinidcv," whilst though Mr. de Niceville, in association with 

 Mr. Wood-Mason (J. A. S. Bengl. vol. li. pt. 11, p. 16 (1882), uses the last-mentioned name, in the same year, associated with 

 Major Marshall {supra), he advocates that oi Lemoniidce. 



December, 1883. 3 B 



