RHOPALOCERA MALAYANA. 277 



I am only able to record one species as found in this fauna, and though another or 

 others seem necessary to he added, I have, however, no adequate knowledge to justify their 

 present incorporation. Thus Mr. Hewitsou * described (but not figured) a Singapore specimen, 

 in the collection of Mr. Wallace, as a variety of the Javan species, R. vivarna, Horsf. ; and 

 Mr. Moore t refers to " E. orseis from Singapore," a species described by Mr. Hewitson (and not 

 figured) as Deudorix orseis, I and as from Sumatra. 



1. Rapala amisena. (Tab. XXIIL, fig. 13 <? .) 



Ambbjiiodut amisena, Hewitson, Cat. Lye. Brit. Mas. p. 13, a. G2, t. 7, f. 74, 78 (18G2); Khcil, Rliop. der 

 Insel. Nias. p. 38, u. 123 (1884). 



Male. Wings above dark violaceous-lihic ; anterior wings with the costal and outer margins (very 

 broadly at apex) dark fuscous ; jjosterior wings with the costal and outer margins (the first broadly, 

 particularly at apex, and the second narrowly) dark fuscous, the abdominal margin somewhat paler 

 fuscous. Wings beneath davk brownish, with the following dark fuscous markings : — anterior wings 

 with a linear spot near centre and one at end of cell, a waved and sinuated linear fascia between end 

 of cell and apex of wing, preceded by a subcostal linear spot situate between the first and second 

 subcostal nervules, and a submarginal series of small spots placed between the nervules ; posterior 

 wings with a short broken linear fascia near base, commencing at costal nervure and terminating 

 near submedian nervure, a much-waved and sinuated linear fascia more or less outwardly margined with 

 greyish, crossing wing beyond end of cell ; a submarginal series of spots (largest beyond the upper median 

 ner\Tile) placed between the nervules, and three metallic greenish marginal spots, more or less centred 

 with black, near anal angle ; tail-like appendage fuscous, with the apex greyish-white. Body and legs 

 more or less concolorous with wings. Extreme apex of antennae ochraceous. 



Exp. wings, 3 , 35 millim. 



Hab. — Malay Peninsula; Singapore (Brit. Mus. ; Kerr — coll. Dist.). 



The female sex was evidently figured by Mr. Hewitson, and is much paler than the male. 

 It was described as " Upperside dull lilac-blue. Anterior wings with the margins suffused 

 with brown. Posterior wing rufous-brown, glossed with blue in the middle." 



The species was originally described from a Singapore specimen, and I have only received 

 it from that habitat. 



Genus DEUDORIX. 



Beudnnx, Hewitson, 111. Diuru. Lep. p. 16 (1863); Moore, Lap. Ceyl. i. p. 102 (1881). 

 Xadlsepa, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1882, p. 249. 

 Baspn, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1882, p. 250. 

 Vadehra, § Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1883, p. 528. 



Anterior wings subtriangular ; costal margin arched at base, and more or less oblique to apex ; 

 outer margin either nearly straight or somewhat convex ; inner margin slightly concavely sinuate. Costal 

 nei-vure terminating on costa a little beyond end of cell ; first subcostal nervule emitted beyond middle of 

 cell, and at about the same distance from second as second is from third, which is emitted a very little before 

 end of cell ; third and fourth bifurcating a little beyond middle of third ; first and second median nervules 



- Cat. Lye. Brit. p. 13. f Lep. Ceyl. vol. i. p. 105. j 111. Diurn. Lep. p. 23, n. 20 (18G3). 



§ This name has already been used, in an earlier part of the same volume (Proc. Zool. Soc. 1883), by Mr. Moore, for 

 a proposed new genus in a section of Euploea. 



Februaky 20, 1885. 4 b 



