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lUlOPALOCERA MALAYANA. 



4. Deudorix domitia. (Tab. XXIII., fig. 7 <? .) 



Tiemlonx Bomida, Hewitson, 111. Diurn. Lep. p. 19, n. 7, t. G, f. G, 7 (1863) ; Draco, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1873, 

 p. 353, n. 1 ; Butl. Traus. Linn. Soc. ser. 2, Zool. vol. i. p. .5-19, n. 4 (1877). 



My ouly knowledge of this species is derived from the figure and description of Mr. 

 Hewitson, both of which are roprodiiced here. 



Upperside. .l/rtZc.—" Rufous-brown. Anterior wing with a longitudinal rufous band within the 

 cell ; the anal lobe and the fringe at the base of the tails white." 



" Underside yellow. Anterior wing with three black spots — one on the middle of the cell, a triangular 

 spot on the costal margin beyond the middle, and a smaller spot between the second and third median 

 uervules ; the apex and a large spot on the inner margin grey. Posterior wing with one tail ; the outer 

 margin brown : the caudal spot, the lobe, and two spots between them black, irrorated with blue, and 

 above these spots two parallel black lines." 



"Female does not differ from the male, except that the underside is nearly white, the third spot of 

 the anterior wing scarcely seen." 



Exp. wings, " lio inch." 



Hab.— Malay Peninsula ; Singapore (coll. Wallace) ; Malacca (Pinwill— Brit. Mus.).— Borneo (Druce). 



6. Deudorix barthema,* n. sp. 



Viudorix Xemiphon, Hewits. (nee Fabr.), 2 , HI- Diurn. Lep. p. 21 (1869). 



Mijrina Megistia (?), Butl. (nee Hewits.), Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2, Zool. vol. i. p. 5-19, u. 1 (1877). 



Female. Wings above fuliginous-brown, with a black spot at the lobe of the anal angle of posterior 

 wings. Wings beneath yellow, both wings with a very narrow and linear slightly darker fascia outwardly 

 margined with greyish, situate between ends of cells and outer margins, angulated and inwardly margined 

 with fuscous from the central median nervule of posterior wings to abdominal margin, where it is duplex ; 

 three marginal spots near anal angle of posterior wings, the first and third black, the central one composed 

 of greenish scales ; extreme outer margin narrowly greyish, the fringe pale brownish. 



Exp. wings, 2 , 30 to 34 millim. 



Hab.— Malay Peninsula ; Province Wellesley (coll. Dist.) ; Malacca (Pinwill— Brit. Mus.) ; Singapore 

 (Godfery— coll. Dist.). 



I liave not seen the male of this species, and I did not receive the other sex in time 

 to have it figm-ed on the plates. It is, however, closely allied in colour to the male of 

 1>. domitia, wanting, however, the black spots on the under surface of the anterior wings, which 

 renders it easily distinguishable. I have refrained from giving a woodcut, owing to the little 

 advantage that such would afford in portraying a plainly coloured and little marked insect. 



Genus LOXURA. 



Loxura, Horsfield, Cat. Lep. E.I.C. p. 119 (1829); Moore, Lep. Ceyl. vol. i. p. 110 (1881). 



Anterior wings subtriangular ; costal margin strongly arched and convex, apex acute ; outer margin 

 almost straight and slightly oblique ; inner margin nearly straight. Costal nervure short, terminating 

 on costa before the end of cell ; first subcostal nervule short, emitted a little beyond middle of cell and 



■■'■ Named after Ludovico Barthema, of Bologna, wlio is reported to have visited Mahicca about 1503, or sis years 

 before tlie visit of Sequiera. 



