RHOPALOCERA MALA 1 MAM. 



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red spots beneath l)eing obscurely visible above; nenvation of both wings broadly lilackisli. Wings 

 beneath as in male, but with all the lilaek markings larger and darker. 



Female. Form h* — Resembling fnnn n. but with the black suffusions above larger, and altogether 

 covering the anterior wings and reaching the ajiex of the cell in posterior wings. 



Exp. wings, (? and 2 , 7-' to 80 millim. 



Hab. — Malay Peninsula; Province Wellesley (colls. Dist. & Saiier) ; Malacca (Pinwill— Brit. Mus. — 

 coll. Dist.) ; Singapore (Kerr — coll. Dist.). — Borneo (Brit. Mus.) ; Baujermassin (coll. Dist.). 



The two forms of the female here described seem to ncifative th(! i)rol)al)ilitY that wt' arc 

 deahng with anything l)ut a simple variety of D. hiijuirctc, more especially as in IJornean 

 specimens in the writer's collection, Sarawak examples agree with the form found in the 

 Peninsula, whilst others received from Banjermassin are almost inseparable from .T;n;iii 

 D. hjiparete. 



6. Delias singhapura. 



Tliijcd Siiiijhiijiiini, Wallace, Trans. Eut. Soc. ser. 3, vol. iv. j^i. 353, n. 29, t. 7, 



f. 2 (1867). 

 Delias Situiluijiiini, Bntl. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1872, p. 33, n. 36; Drnce, Proc. Zool. 



Soc. 1873, p. 355, u. 3. 



"Male. Wings elongate; above white, the costal margin and the outer _^' 

 half of the uppers dusky, nearly black at the apex, and with an ill-defined inner /" 

 edge ; lower wings with a narrow interrupted black border behind, within which ^ 



dusky patches of scales extend a short distance along the nervures. Beneath : 

 upper wings white, the nervures of the iipper half black-margined, the apex fig. lud.— /viiu.< »i»:;'^i;/"/-.i j. 

 blackish, leaving a row of six distinct ovate white spots ; lower wings bright 



yellow, the nervures black-bordered, and a rather In-oad black border round the hind margin enclosing 

 a row of six whitish spots, the inner ones bifid, the outermost yellow-tinged." 



Exp. wings, " S^ inches." 



Hab.— Malay Peninsula; "Singapore (coll. Wallace)."— Borneo (Drucc ; Sarawak (Brit. Mus.). 



This species has not been received by the writer, nor seen by him in any of the many 

 collections examined, which have been formed in different parts of the Peninsula. 



7. Delias orphne. 



Thyca Orplinc, Wallace, Trans. Ent. Soc. sor. 3. 

 (1867). 



3G1. n. 5G, t. 8, f. 2 



"Male. Above, white, with the base dusky; upper wings with a narrow 

 black border from the apex to near the outer angle, the costa dusky, as well as 

 the extremity of the cell, and a broad marginal band beyond as if smeared with 

 black ; the lower wings have a very narrow dusky edging behind. Beneath : 

 the uppers have the base dusky, a broad patch at the end of the cell nearly 

 black, and a broad dusky outer margin enclosing a row of six white spots, the 

 two lower the largest; lower wings black, but nearly covered with chrome- 



- This is represented by the figure (Tab. XXIV., fig. 14). 



Fig. 101. 



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March 20, 1885. 



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