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fascia; three transverse, marginal, metallic greenish streaks, the innermost with a hlack spot near anal 

 angle {two of these are nibbed o?- obliterated in the speeimen Jii/ured) ; tail-like appendages with their apices 

 greyish-white. Bod}' ahove more or less eoncolorous with wings, heneath more or less greyish ; legs pale 

 brownish. 



Exp. wings, $ , 60 millim. 



Hab. — Malay Peninsula ; Malacca (Com. de Casteluau — coll. Feld. ; coll. Dist. and Brit. Mus.) ; 

 Perak (Kiinstler— Calc. Mus.). 



Siuee writing the above I have been enabled to examine a male specimen of this species, 

 and find it is unicolorous and dark violaceous-blue above, and exactly resembling the lemale 

 beneath. It is evidently a much rarer insect than A\ centaiirus, or at least more seldom met 

 with by collectors. Mr. Kirby has placed N. agiiis as a synonym of the Sumatran species, 

 X. anarte, Hew., but it is si;fficiently distinct for specific separation. 



3. Narathura anthelus. (Tab. XXIII., tig. 4 2.) 



Amblijpodia anthelus, Doubleday & Hewitson, Gen. Diuru. Lep. t. 74, f. (1852) ; Hewits. Cat. Lye. Brit. Mus. 



t. 3, f. 23, 24 (1862); Butl. Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2, Zool. vol. i. p. 548, n. 3 (1877). 

 .S'«?(((/rrt a)iJ/(t'?(M, Moore, J. A. S. Beug. vol. liii. pt. ii. no. 1, p. 24 (1884). 



Female. Wings violaceous-blue ; anterior wings with the costal margin, apex, and outer margin 

 broadly fuscous, the fuscous coloration also continued in a disco-cellular streak at end of cell ; posterior 

 wings with the costal margin broadly and the posterior margin more narrowly fuscous ; apices of the 

 tail-like appendages greyish-white. Wings beneath pale brownish, with the following dark purplish or 

 pale brown spots and fasciae margined with greyish ; anterior wings with two looped spots in cell and a 

 subquadrate sjiot at end of cell, a fractured macular fascia between end of cell and outer margin, which is 

 strongly dislocated at upper median nervule ; between this fascia and base are a series of large irregular 

 costal spots, a small spot beneath cell between the bases of the second and third median nervules, and 

 a more obscure and narrow, macular, submargiual fascia ; posterior wings with an irregular series of live 

 subcostal spots, beneath which are four smaller basal spots, a very irregular discal fascia extending from 

 lower subcostal nervule to abdominal margin, and an outer pale, waved fascia extending from the outer 

 subcostal spot to abdominal margin ; three transverse metallic greenish s^iots more or less shaded with 

 black near anal angle, where the outer margin is narrowly greyish. Body above and beneath, with legs, 

 more or less eoncolorous with wings. 



Male. I have not seen this sex, but, as figured by Doubleday and Hewitson, it is violaceous-blue 

 above, with the costal and outer margins narrowly dark fuscous, somewhat more broadly so at the apices 

 of both wings and at the anal angle of the posterior wdngs. 



Exp. wings, 2 , 55 millim. 



Hab. — Burma ; Moulmein (Doub. & Hew.). — Malay Peninsula ; Sungei Ujong (Durnford — coll. Dist.) ; 

 Malacca (Pinwill — Brit. Mus.). 



4. Narathura maxwelli, n. sp.* (Tab. XXIII., fig. 10 2 .) 



Female. Wings above violaceous-blue ; anterior wings with the costal and outer margins (abruptly 

 widened at apex) dark fuscous; posterior wings with the costal and outer margins dark fuscous; 

 abdominal margin fuscous, tail-like appendages with their apices greyish-white. Wings beneath brownish, 

 with the following spots and fascise margined with greyish : — two in, and one at end of cell ; above this 



* Named after Mr. W. E. Maxwell, not only well known as the " liesident " at Larut, but also as the author of 

 'A Manual of the Malay Language,' &c. 



