268 lUIOPALOCERA MALAYAN A. 



Hab. — l\Ialay Poniusula ; Penang, Province Wellesley (coll. Dist.) ; Malacca (Pinwill — Brit. Mus. ; 

 colls. Moore and Godra. k Salv.) ; Singapore (Kerr— coll. Dist.).— Borneo (Druce). 



This species varies greatly in size, the smallest specimen examined being a female and 

 e.xpanding only 32 niillim. As Mr. Hewitson pointed out, an excellent differential specific 

 character is ibinid in the spot-like projection to the discal fascia on the under surface of the 

 anterior wings ; but when the describer states that in the female the last spot of this fascia also 

 projects outwardly, he has described what is found on none of the specimens now before me. 



Mr. Hewitson recognised the identity of his A. hijpomuta with the A. amphinmta, Feld.,* 

 and though Mr. Butler states f that the two are quite distinct, and places them wide apart, 

 I have failed to find these differences. A closely allied species, A. epimuta, Moore, was included 

 by Mr. Butler in his catalogue of Malaccan butterflies, I but couhl not be found in the National 

 Collection, for the use of our artist, and so it is not included here. 



12. Narathura kurzi,§ n. sp. (Tab. XXL, fig. 1 <? .) 



Male. AVings above dark violaceous-blue. Wings beneath lirownish, with the following spots and 

 fasciic margined with greyish : — anterior wings with two spots in and one at end of cell ; two beneath cell 

 divided by the lower median nervule ; a macular fascia beyond cell, which is strongly dislocated at 

 upper median nervule and is then inwardly continued by an almost separated spot terminating near the 

 central median nervule ; posterior wings with about six basal spots (the extreme Jmsal spots Iinre been 

 omitted in the fifiure), a ceutral discal fascia commencing at lower subcostal nervule, followed by a fascia 

 crossing the whole breadth of wing, a submarginal fascia, and marginal metallic greenish spots, more or 

 less marked with blackish near anal angle. Body above and beneath, with legs, more or less concolorous 

 with wings. 



Exp. wings, <? 42 millim. 



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



Only one male specimen of this distinctly marked species is known to the describer, and 

 the female has still to be discovered. 



13. Narathura ameria. (Tab. XXI., fig. 30 2 .) 



Awhhjim,ti„ amriia, Howitsou, Cat. Lye. Brit. Mus. p. 1-1, n. G4, t. 8, f. 85, 86 || (1862). 



Female. Wings above dark violaceous-blue, costal and outer margins of both wings, and abdominal 

 margin of posterior wings broadly dark fuscous. Anterior wings beneath somewhat rufous-brown, cell 

 contaming a whitish line near base, two near centre, and two at termination, some obscure whitish linear 

 marks above the cell ; beneath the cell the colour is paler, containing a conical brownish spot between 

 the second and third median nervules and a broad brown spot between the third median nervule and 



■■'■ in. Dinm. Lep. p. 12, n. 58. | Traus. Liiin. Soc. ser. 2, Zool. vol. i. p. 549. :| IIj. p. 548, n. 7. 



§ Dedicated to the memory of the late excellent botanist, Sulhiz Kurz, author of the ' Forest Flora of British Burma,' &c. 

 Ue died at 1 euang on his way to the islands of the Malayan Ajrchipelago, for the purpose of botanical exploration. 



II The figure of the underside of this species as given by Hewitson is totally unlike that which I have given here. 

 1 iiaAe, Uoweycr, careluUy compared my figure and specimen with the ti/pe specimen of Hewitson's species in the British 

 Museum, and tliey are altogetlier identical. Hewitson's figures of the undersides of these Amhlijpodicc are frequently altogether 



