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RHOPALOCERA MALAY AN A. 



posticarum bis refracta aurantiacis albo cinctis, auticis extus Mvescentibus, posticis macula subcostali 

 concolore binisque aaalibus atris, exteriore in areola fulva. 3 ." 



" Colore Theclis quibusdam baud absimilis." 



Exp. wings,* 30 millim. 



au3.— Nicobar Islands; Naukouri, Katscliall (Wood-Mas. & de Nic.).— Malay Peninsula; Malacca? 

 (Feld.) ; Singapore (coll. Ilewits.). 



There seems little doubt that this species is rightly placed in the genns Hypohjcoina, 

 though I have not examined a specimen. Hewitson's figure of H. thedoides gives a congeneric 

 impression, whilst the structural remarks f added by Felder emphasise that view. 



Genus lEAOTA. 



Iraota, Moore, Lep. C'eyl. vol. i. p. 101 (1881). 



Anterior wings subtriangular ; costal margin arched at base and then obliquely continued to apex, 

 which is subacute; exterior margin moderately convex and slightly waved; inner margin slightly 

 concavely sinuate. Costal nervure curved, terminating nearly opposite end of cell ; first subcostal 

 nervule emitted near middle of cell, second about midway between first and third, thii-d emitted 

 at about the same distance from end of cell as its base is from that of second, third and fourth 

 bifurcating a little beyond middle of third ; first and second median uervules emitting rather more 

 than one-third nearer together than second and third. Posterior wings short and broad ; costal 

 margin obliquely convex to apex ; posterior margin convexly rounded, with a slender tail-like 

 appendage at apex of submedian nervure in the male, and with an additional and similar appendage 

 at apex of lower median ucrvule iu the female ; anal angle lobately produced, and a somewhat prominent 

 angulation at apex of second median nervule. Costal nervure arched at base and extending to apex; 

 subcostal nervules bifurcating at about one-third before end of cell ; first and second median nervules 

 emitted close together near end of cell ; third at about one-third before end of cell. Body robust ; palpi 

 porrect, second joint about reaching apex of head, third joiut long and slender ; legs robust ; antennae 

 with a long and gradually formed apical club. 



The male, as described by Mr. Moore, possesses " a tuft of hair on underside of posterior 

 margin" of anterior wings, and also " a slightly indicated glandular space between the base of 

 costal and subcostal veins" of posterior wings." 



Tliis genus is of moderate extent, and is recorded from North-Eastern India, Ceylon, 

 the Malay Peninsula, Java, Borneo, and the Philippine Islands. It is probably to be found 

 throughout the true ludo-Malayan region. 



1. Iraota boswelliana, J n. sp. (Tab. XXII., fig. 23 2 .) 



Male. 'Wings above dark fuscous ; anterior wings with a large patch of dark bluish scales occupying 

 Ijase of cell and extending along inner half, but not reaching outer margin ; posterior wings with a very 

 large and similar dark bluish patch occupying the whole discal area; tail-like appendage and the 



" Taken from Hewitson's figiu-e. 



_ t " Species hsec et ejus affinis M. crylus, Godt., et Sijiylus, Feld., a Myrinis palpoi-um articulo secundo capita breviore, 

 tertio longo aciculari arcuato antcnnisque gracUiter clavatis rccedimt." 



\ In naming this species I have talcen a liint from Dr. Johnson. The great lexicographer once remarked to his future 

 biographer, aprojioa of a moth which fluttered into a candle, "That creature was its own tormentor, and 1 beheve its name 

 was Boswell." This is probably the whole condensed "entomological" observation of Dr. Johnson, and as such may be 

 remembered. 



