RHOPALOCERA MALAYAN A. 213 



posterior margin (narrowing to anal angle) dark brownish ; fringe of both wings greyish, darker at base. 

 Wings beneath pale brownish ochraceous ; anterior wings with a linear brown spot margined with grey at 

 end of cell, and a curved series of six brown spots margined with grey, placed between the nervules and 

 situate midway between the end of cell and outer margin, the uppermost situate between the bifurcation of 

 the third and fourth subcostal nervules, the sixth (sometimes duplex and sometimes absent) placed above 

 the submedian nervure, the outer margin darker and containing two dark waved lines ; posterior wings 

 with a linear spot at end of cell as on anterior wings and with the following series of brown spots margined 

 with grey :— three near base, two above and beyond cell, five midway between cell and posterior margin, 

 the first situate beneath the lower subcostal nervule, the fifth before the submedian nervure, and a smaller 

 spot about centre of abdominal margin ; posterior margin darker and marked as on anterior wings. Body 

 above and beneath more or less coucolorous with wings. 



Female. Wings above pale brownish, with a broad violaceous streak at base; wings beneath as 

 in male. 



Exp. wings, <? & 2 , 17 to 24 millim. 



Hab.— Malay Peninsula ; Sungei Ujoug (Duruford) ; Malacca (Biggs— coll. Dist. ; Pinwill— Brit. Mus.) . 

 Singapore (Kerr — coll. Dist.). — Java; Batavia (Snellen). 



I have, since fig-uring a small Malaccau male belonging to the collection of Mr. Moore, 

 received a fine series of this species, which proves (as could be reasonably expected) that the 

 species is subject to considerable variation both in size and in the distinctness of the markings 

 on the under surface of the wings. It also appears to be a very abundant Lycsenid in the 

 Malay Peninsula. 



2. Zizera karsandra. (Tab. XXII., iig. 22 2 .) 



Polyummcitus Karsandra, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1H65, p. 505, t. 31, f. 7 ; Wood-Mas. & do Nic. J. A. S. B. 



vol. L. p. 235, n. 42 (1881). 

 Lycana Karsandra, Butl. Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2, Zool. vol. i. p. 548, n. 3 (1877). 



I have not received this species from our region, and only know it by the female specimen 

 in the British Museum, which was captured by Capt. Pinwill in Penang. The figure here 

 given is taken from that specimen, and I add Mr. Moore's original description : — 



" Upperside purple-brown. Underside greyish brown, exterior margins defined by a brown line : fore 

 wing with a spot within discoidal cell, a disco-cellular streak, a spot above it, and a transverse discal series 

 of six spots black, each encircled with white ; a marginal and submarginal row of pale brown, white- 

 bordered lunules : hind wing with a series of twelve black spots, and a pale disco-cellular streak, encircled 

 with white ; a marginal row of pale brown, whitish encircled spots, and a submarginal row of whitish 

 lunules : cilia greyish brown." 



Exp. wings, " \° inch." 



Hab. — Continental India; North-West Plains (Moore). — Nicobar Islands; Kamorta (Wood-Mas. and 

 de Nic). — Malay Peninsula; Penang (Pinwill — Brit. Mus.). 



June 30, 1884. 3 i 



