oyj RHOPALOCERA MALAY AN A. 



I have only received a single female specimen of this apparently somewhat rare species. 

 It is peculiar by the similarity of the sexes, the usual female characters of colour and markings 

 being, in this species, also transferred to the other sex. 



Genus LIPHYEA. 



Liphyra, Westwood, Proc. Eut. Soc. 18G4, p. 31. 

 Sterosi^, Fckl. Eeise Nov. Lep. ii. p. 219 (1805). 



Body very short aud robust ; eyes large ; palpi minute ; antenna gradually thickened from centre 



to apex. 



Anterior wings subtriangular, the costal margin oblique and slightly arched, the outer margin 

 convex, inner margin sinuated and coarsely hirsute ; costal nervure extending to about centre of costal 

 margin ; first subcostal nervule emitted a little beyond centre of cell ; second emitted at about half the 

 distance from apex of cell as its base is from that of the first nervule ; third and fourth bifurcating at 

 about one-third the distance between end of cell aud apex of wing ; base of the upper discoidal nervule 

 united with the subcostal nervule a little beyond end of cell; disco-cellular nervules robust, slightly 

 concave. Posterior wings somewhat elongately ovate ; the posterior margin rounded and convex ; costal 

 nervure extending to about apex of wing ; first subcostal nervule emitted at about one-third before end of 

 cell ; cell very broad ; second aud third median nervules with their bases twice as wide apart as the 

 distance separating the bases of the first and second. Legs robust. 



This unique genus is known only by one species,* which is probably the largest and most 

 robust buttertiy found in the whole of the Lijcwnidce. Its geographical area can at present be 

 only estimated by that of its sole representative. 



1. Liphyra brassolis.f (Tab. XXII., iig. 18 $ .) 



Liphyra hrussolis, Westwood, Proc. Enf. Soc. 1804, p. 31 ; Butl. Traus. Linn. Soc. ser. 2, Zool. vol. i. p. 546, 



n. 1 (1877). 

 Stcrusis robmta, Feld. Eeise Nov. Lep. ii. p. 219, u. 237, t. 27, f. 10, 11 (1805). 



Female. Wings above reddish ochraceous. Anterior wings with a large spot occupying apical two- 

 thirds of cell and extending beyond it ; two large spots beneath apex of cell divided by the middle median 

 nervule, the apex and outer margin broadly and the inner margin narrowly for half its length fuscous or 

 black ; extreme outer margin castaneous. Posterior wings with five discal spots, oue inside aud two just 

 beyond cell, aud two divided by the middle median nervule, aud the posterior margin broadly aud inwardly 

 sinuate, fuscous or black ; extreme outer margin castaneous ; abdominal margin somewhat darker. Wings 

 beneath paler ; anterior wings with the discal black spots present, but the apex aud outer margin only 

 mottled with brownish ; posterior wings with the posterior two-thirds and the costal margin mottled with 

 brownish, the black discal spots obsolete. Body and legs more or less coneolorous with wings; eyes 

 black ; antennte lu'ownish. 



Male. With the black markings on the upper surface of the wings larger and more distinct, on the 

 anterior wings occupying the whole of the inner margin. 



Exp. wings, 3 and 2 , 68 millim. 



* Mr. Hcwitsou tlesoribeil two West African species as also belonf^ng to this genus, but I quite agree with Mr. Kirby, 

 and cannot believe that they " are correctly referred" in the generic sense (Ills. Diurn. Lep., Lye. Suppl. pp. 34—5). 



f This species has considerable superficial resemblance to those of the Tropical American genus Brassolis, from which it 

 presumably owes its name. 



