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RIIOPALOCERA MALAYANA. 



Fig. (i). — yaruHiiira 

 bjctemiria. 



The woodcut hero given is copied from Folder's figure, and which when 

 executed, constituted the writer's sole knowledge of the species. Since then 

 a specimen has heen received which affords an opportunity of giving a fuller 

 description. 



Malo. Wings above bright shining cerulean-blue ; costal and outer margins 

 narrowly fuscous. Wings beneath brownish, with the following greyish lines or 

 fascise and spots: — anterior wings with two pairs of transverse lines in cell (one 

 at base and one near middle), and a similar pair at end of cell ; above the last 

 are two placed closer together, and almost reaching costa ; a pair beneath cell situate on each side 

 of lower median nervule ; between cell ami outer margin is a curved fascia, sti-ongly dislocated at 

 the nervules, commencing at second subcostal nervule and terminating at lower median nervule, and 

 a submarginal row of small greyish spots placed between the nervules ; posterior wings with two 

 basal spots, and the whole disk covered with transverse fascife more or less dislocated and fused ; 

 til !•<■(• black s2)()ts with metallic greenish scales near anal angle. Body and legs more or less concolorous 

 with wings. 



Exp. wings, 3 , 38 millim. 



H/VB. — Malay Peninsula: Penang (Biggs — coll. Dist.) ; Malacca (Com. de Castelnau — coll. Feld.) ; 

 Singapore (Wallace). — Borneo (DruceK 



I have not seen a female specimen, hut in the male sex the species is rendered very 

 distinct from any of those preceding and here enumerated, by the metallic cerulean-blue of the 

 upper surface of the wings. As it is now recorded from Penang, Malacca, and Singapore, 

 .V. bif(vnaria is probably generally distributed throughout our area. 



The following species are only known to the writer by figures and descriptions (both of 

 which are here reproduced), and seem to belong to the genus Naratlmm : — 



1(5. Narathura vihara. 



^^ AmhhjimcUa riluira, Felder, Wien. Ent. Men. iv. p. 395, n. 5 (1860) ; Kheil, Rhop. 



der Insel Nias, p. 33, n. 122 (1884). 

 Arhiipiila rihiira, Feld. Eeise Nov. Lep. ii. p. 228, n. 253, t. 29, f. 7 (1865). 



Male. " Alfe supra saturate violaeeo-cyanese, antics mar-gine costali et 

 externo latiusculo nigro-fuscis, posticfe limbo costali in margiuem posticum 

 latiusculum increscentem transeunte limboque interno fuscis." 



" Alffi subtus dilute fuscffi, fascia submarginali communi, antiearum 



maculis binis annularibus fundo saturatioribus in cellula, macula discocellulari, 



dualms infra venam medianam fasciaque catenulari exteriore apud ramum 



medianum primum finita, apud tertium fracta, posticarum maculis quinque 



basahbus annularibus fundo saturatioribus, sexta interna, fasciola tripartita discoidali fasciaque exteriore 



catenulari apud ramum subcostalem secundum fracta, fasciolse contigua, postice sursum llexa et continua 



- This C<;nrc is taken from the col.)ure(l copy of Felder's work. If an uncoloured copy is consulted, the spots on tlie 

 uiHlcr sin-tace ot tlic posterior win.gs appear to have a .sji-eater amount of specialisation. 



Vu.. s(), — Sfiratliiini rilinrit. 



