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RHOPALOCERA MALAYAN A. 



indistinct and the white spots brighter and more emphasized than above, the posterior wings possessing 

 traces of an inner series of small wliite spots on anterior area. Body and legs more or less concolorous 

 with wings ; antenna; fuscous, narrowly annulatcd with greyish, their apices pale ochraceons. 



Exp. wings, <? and ? , 35 to 40 millim. 



H.U!.— Malay Peninsula; Sungei Ujong (Durnford—coll. Dist.) ; Malacca (Pinwill— Brit. Mns. and 

 Biggs— coll. Dist.) ; Ayerpanas (coll. Kol)orts).— Sumatra (Forbes— coll. Dist.)— Borneo (Brit. Mus.). 



The specimen figured is a somewhat jiale variety of the species, which is generally more 

 melauic in hue. It is also closely allied to Z.jlcijijas, Cram., from which it appears to be 

 distinct." It is singular, however, that Cramer's species is found both in N.E. India, Upper 

 'i"(>nasscrim, and Java, but apparently replaced by Z. alhipnnctata in Borneo, Sumatra, and the 

 Malay Peninsula, though similar peculiarities of distribution have been pointed out by Wallace, 

 both in birds and mammals. 



2. Zemeros emesoides. (Tab. XVIII., figs. 3 <? , and 4 2.) 



Zciiuru.i nmvoides, Felder, Wicu, Ent. Mon. iv. p. 396, n. 10 (18G0) ; Eeise Nov. Lap. ii. p. 289, n. 373, t. 86, 

 f. 9-11 {1865); Draco, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1873, p. 347, n. 1. 



Male. Wings above reddish-ochraceous, and crossed by four broad dark fascite, the outer one 

 strongly curved and followed by a submarginal narrow waved fascia of the same colour, the fringe also 

 fuscous ; the anterior wings possess a short basal oblique fascia extending partly through cell and the 

 posterior wings have also a minute and obscure basal fascia. Wings beneath as above, but paler. Body 

 and legs more or less concolorous with wings. Antennae fuscous, narrowly and obscurely annulated with 

 greyish, but more distinctly so beneath than above, their ajjices pale ochraceous. 



Female. Paler in hue than the male, and with the submarginal fascine a little broader. 



Exp. wings, (? and 5 , 3:3 to 39 millim. 



H.\B. — Malay Peninsula; Province Wellesley (coll. Dist.); Sungei Ujong (Durnford — coll. Dist.); 

 Malacca (Castelnau — coll. Feld.; Pinwill — Brit. Mus.; Biggs — coll. Dist.) — Borneo (Druce). 



Felder's descriptions were taken from specimens collected in the interior of Malacca by the 

 Com. de Castelnau, and the species, like the preceding, is probably distributed throughout the 

 Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, and Borneo. 



Genus ABISAEA. 



Ahimra, Feldor, Wien. Ent. Mon. iv. p. 397 (1860) ; Moore, Lop. Ceyl. vol. i. p. 68 (1881). 



Sinpita, Hew. Ex. Butt. ii. Sosp. t. 1 (1801). 



Snbgen. Laxitn, Butl. Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2, Zool. vol. i. p. 540, n. 4 (1877). 



Anterior wings subtriangular ; costal margin either arched from base and then somewhat straight 

 to apex, which is somewhat angularly pointed, or convex to apex, which is rounded ; outer margin 

 obliquely straight or slightly convex ; inner margin slightly or prominently convex near base. First 

 and second subcostal nervules short, emitted a little before the end of the cell ; third emitted about 

 midway between the end of cell and bifurcation of the fourth and fifth nervules, or a little nearer to the 

 Inst than to apex of cell, cell very broad; disco-cellular nervules concavely bent, lower disco- cellular joining 



* In formulating opinions as to wliether closely allied forms are distinct species, when our material is that of the 

 perfect insect alone, it must always bo granted that such conclusions are purely empirical. The life-history of the insect 

 may disclose a different tale, as when, in some British moths, the perfect insects are almost inseparable and the larval 

 characters specifically di\-erjjent, or vice versa; or again, as has been recently shown, very different forms may simply 

 represent different aensoiud or diinorjihir ])hases of one species. 



