RHOPALOCEllA MALA VAX A. 



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towards apex. Posterior wings with two short pale ol)liquc fasciix) at hase, a discal scries of about 

 eleven blue and black markings as on anterior wings, and a submarginal series of obscure dark conical 

 spots, through which pass two series of pale, transverse linear spots, the inner series being distinctlj' 

 lunulate. Body above eoncolorous with wings, beneath with legs greyish-brown. 



Female. Above reddish, the dark spots beneath visible above ; anterior wings witli a prominent 

 subaijical white fascia. Wings beneath generally as in male, excepting the white sul)apical fascia. 



Long. (7 and 5 , 48 millim. 



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

 (coll. Godfery). — Java (Horsfield — Brit, ihis.) — Borneo (coll. Dist.) 



I have uot figured the male, which is, however, easily recognised by its uniform dark 

 colour above, with subapical ochraceous fascia to anterior wings, and beneath by its general 

 resemblance to the female. 



4. Abisara thuisto. 



TauiUi ThuiMu, Hewitson, Ex. Butt. ii. Tax. t. 1, f. 5. 6 (1861) 



Proc. Zool. Soc. 1873, p. 347, n. 1. 

 Abisam Thiusto, Butl. Anu. Nat. Hist. ser. 4, vol. v. p. 363 (1870) 



Druce, 



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,. -ti. — AbUara tltidstn, J* . 



Male. Wings above uniform and very dark indigo-blue or black. 

 Wings beneath bright reddish-brown ; anterior wings with the apes paler, 

 an oblique bluish fascia crossing cell ; a number of irregularly shaped blue 

 and black discal spots arranged in three series, the outer most distinct 

 consisting of six spots divided by the nervules, the upper three being very 

 pale, and a submargiual series of linear blue spots margined with black situate between the nervules ; 

 the fringe black ; posterior wings with a transverse bluish fascia crossing cell and extending to near costa, 

 and with a number of irregularly shaped blue and black discal spots as on anterior wings, of which the 

 outer are the most prominent, and which are placed between the nervules ; submarginal linear spots as on 

 anterior wings, and the fringe black. Body above eoncolorous with wings, beneath somew'hat paler ; legs 

 ochraceous. 



Female. The following is Hewitson's description of this sex, which I have not yet received from the 

 Malaj' Peninsula : — 



" Piufous, clouded at the base. Both wings crossed transversely 

 beyond the middle by a band of oblong black spots, each spot marked with 

 dull blue — those near the costal margin of anterior wing interrupted by 

 five white spots. Both wings with a band of lunula r black spots near the 

 outer margin, each spot traversed by a line of blue or white. Anterior 

 wing with a transverse band of black spots before the middle. Underside 

 does not differ from the male, except that it is lighter." 



Exp. wings, J 3.5 millim. ; 2 " IJ;! in." 



Hab. — Malay Peninsula; Sungei Ujong (Durnford — coll. Dist.); Singapore (Hewitson). — Sumatra 

 (coll. Hewits.) — Borneo (coll. Godm. & Salv.) 



A single male specimen received from Sungei Ujong (and subsequent to the completion of 

 the coloured plate) constitutes the only representative of the species I possess from this region. 

 This specimen is figured in the above woodcut (fig. 51), the female (fig. 52) being coi^ied 

 from Hewitson's ' Exotic Butterflies.' 





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Fici. o'i. — Abhani thuisto. 9 . 



