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RHOPALOCERA MALAYANA. 



I have here figured two specimens collected hy Capt. Pinwill in Malacca, the male of 

 which was recorded as L. amtka and the female as L. kankena? by Mr. Butler. I have since 

 received a small series of specimens which place their sexual relationship and conspecific 

 character beyond doubt. It is singular that though Felder described the species as from Kar 

 Nioobar, Messrs. Wood-Mason and de Niceville,— who have obtained large and rich collections 

 from the Nicobar Islands,— in their last enumeration of that Ehopalocerous fauna, prefix to the 

 name of this species the sign that denotes a "recorded species of which we have not as yet 

 received specimens." * 



4. Lampides sp. (Tab. XXL, fig. 24 ^ .) 



Of this species I possess only one male specimen, and I refrain at present from either 

 precise identification or description. It is allied to L. kankena, especially by the markings 

 beneath, but is a much larger insect, and the colour above is considerably paler in hue. More 

 specimens, and the knowledge of the female sex, are necessary for its proper determination. 



Hab. — Malay Peninsula ; Malacca (coll. Dist.). 



Genus POLYOMMATUS. 



Pohjommatus, Latrcille, Sonnerat's Buflfon, xiv. p. IIC (1805); Gen. Crust, et lus. iv. p. 206 (1807); Scudd. 

 Proc. Am. Ac. Arts & Sci. vol. x. p. 253, u. 888 (1875); Moore, Lep. Ceyl. vol. i. p. 93 (1881). 



Pohjommatus is easily separated from all the preceding genera of this division, as here enumerated, by 

 the character of the first subcostal nervule of the anterior wings, which, emitted a little beyond middle of 

 cell, is continued free to costa, and is not anastomosed with, nor impinges on, the costal nervure ; the 

 second subcostal nervule is emitted nearer to base of third than to base of first, the third and fourth 

 bifurcating at about half the length of third. The other characters approximate somewhat closely to 

 Catochrysops and Lampides. 



The almost universal distribution of this genus throughout the Old World is sufiiciently 

 shown by the habitats of the only species found in our fauna, and here enumerated. 



I have followed Mr. Scudder in his ruling as to the proper use and limit of this old 

 generic name, a position already accepted by Messrs. Moore, Butler, de NiceviUe, and other 

 workers at Eastern Rhopalocera. 



1. Polyommatus baeticus. (Tab. XX., fig. 8 <?, 1 ? .) 



Pdinlio lUiticu.s.Lhmiens, Syst. Nat. i. 2, p. 789, u. 226(1767); Esp. Scbmett. i. 1, t. 27, f. 3a, /- (1778) ; 



i. 2, t. 91, f. 3 (1784) ; Hiibu. Eur. Scbmett. i. f. 373—375 (1798—1803). 

 Polyommatus baticus, Godt. Euc. Metb. ix. p. 653, u. 122 (1823) ; Moore, Lep. Ceyl. i. p. 93 (1881). 

 Lycama Btetica, Horsf. Cat. Lep. E.I. C. p. 80, n. 14 (1828); Mill. Ann. Soc. Lyon. 1861, p. 229, t. 4, f. 1—8; 



Trim. Rbop. Afr. Austr. ii. p. 236, u. 138 (1866) ; Elwes, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1881, p. 887. 

 Lycana B<etkiis, Snell. Tijd. Ent. xix. p. 152, u. 45 (1876); Mab. Bull. Soc. Zool. Fr. 1877, p. 215. 

 Lampides Baticus, Butl. Cat. Fabr. Lep. p. 165, n. 11 (1869); Trans. Liuu. Soc. ser. 2, Zool. vol. i. p. 547, 



n. 6 (1877). 



* J.A.S.B. vol. U. lit. 11, pp. 17 & 20 (188'2). 



