298 RHOPALOCEEA MALAYANA. 



Female. Wings above dark sulpliureous ; anterior wings with the costal margin commencing about 

 one-thiril from base — narrowly — and the apex and outer margin— broadly and irregularly — dark fuscous ; 

 a fuscous spot at end of cell, and a more obscure, augulated, transverse fascia between end of cell and 

 outer margin ; posterior wings with the outer margin spotted with fuscous. Wings beneath ochraceous, 

 the disco-cellular spots as in male ; the anterior wings with the apex and outer margin somewhat broadly 

 pale reddish, and with a distinct pale reddish angulated transverse fascia between end of cell and 

 outer margin; posterior wings with a transverse linear reddish spot between the costal nervure and the 

 first subcostal nervule, and an outer discal, waved, pale reddish, transverse fascia : marginal spots much 

 smaller than above. 



2 . Yar. a. — Wings beneath with the disco-cellular spots much larger and darker, the linear spot 

 between the costal nervure and first subcostal nervule of the posterior wings also much larger and 

 darker. 



$ . Var. /;. — Anterior wings beneath with the disco-cellular spot surrounded by a large dark dull 

 reddish patch, the discal transverse fascia also broader and dull dark reddish. Posterior wings 

 beneath with a very large discal, dull and dark reddish patch extending from costal nervure to upper 

 median nervule ; this patch occupies outer third of cell and is inwardly and outwardly much angulated 

 and is continued beneath the upper median nervule by a narrow fascia becoming obsolete towards 

 abdominal margin. 



Exp. wings, <? , 75 to 80 millim. ; 2 , 58 to 80 millim. 



Hab.— Continental India; Silhet (Brit. Mus.) ; Sikkim (de Nic.) ; Bengal, Nepal, Calcutta (Butler). — 

 Ceylon (Moore). — Andaman Islands; Port Blair (Wood-Mas. & de Nic). — Burma; Moulmein (Butl.). — 

 Tenasserim; Hatsiega to Houngduran; Naththoung to Paboga; Moolai (Limborg — Moore). — Malay 

 Peninsula ; Penang (coll. Dist.) ; Province Wellesley (colls. Saiier & Dist.) ; Perak (Kiinstler — Calc. Mus.) ; 

 Sungei Ujong (Durnford — coll. Dist.) ; Malacca (Pinwill — Brit. Mus.). — Billiton Island (Godm. & Salv.). — 

 Java (coll. Dist.). — Borneo (Druce). — Philippine Islands (Wallace). — Celebes, Moluccas, Timor (Wallace).- — 

 Australia; Queensland (Butler); Brisbane (coll. Dist.) ; Piockingham Bay, Moreton Bay (Brit. Mus.). — 

 New Zealand (Enys). 



The females of this species are eminently variable, both as regards the size of the spots 

 and the presence of the dark patches on the under surface of the wings ; the commonest form 

 is the one here figured. In North-West India, according to Capt. Lang, this butterfl}- frequents 

 the Cathartocarpus fistula, as does the previous species C. crocale.* In Ceylon Capt. Hutchison 

 reports this species as being " at all times very local. Found in several spots of limited 

 extent; and always there."! It is also, in the same habitat, a remarkably migratory species, 

 Mr. Mackwood stating that "In the flights along the sea-coast, beginning generally in 

 November, this species of Catopsilia forms about a third of the number, always travelling 

 to the north ; the flights lasting for days, thousands of them passing in an hour." I 



3. Catopsilia scylla. (Tab. XXIV., tigs. 1 <? , 2 5.) 



Fapilio Sci/Ua, Liuua3us, Mus. Ulr. p. 242 (17G-i) ; Syst. Nat. i. 2, p. 7G3, u. 95 (1767); Job. Amoeu. Acad, 

 vi. p. 404, u. 57 (1764) ; Houtt. Nat. Hist. i. 11, p. 256, t. 88, f. 5 (1767) ; Miill. Naturs. v. 1, p. 592, 

 n. 95, t. 18, f. 5 (1774) ; Meerb. Afbeeld, t. 16, (1775) ; Cram. Pap. Ex. i. t. 12, C, D (1775) ; Sulz. 

 Gesch. Lis. p. 143, t. 15, f. 6 (1776); Gmel. Syst. Nat. i. 5, p. 2268, n. 95 (1790); Herbst, Naturs. 

 Scbmett. v. p. 198, n. 105, t. Ill, f. 5, 6 (1792) ; Don. Ins. lud. t. 28, f. 3 (1800); Turt. Syst. of 

 Nat. iii. 2, p. 72 (1806). 



* Ent. Month. Mag. vol. i. p. 103. f Moore's Lep. Ceyl. vol. i. p. 122. I Ibid. 



