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RIIOPALOCERA MALAYANA. 



Male. Wings above cream}- white ; anterior wings with the costal area dark bluish-grey, the outer 

 margin bbick, which is inwai-dly strongly sinuated and angulated between the nervules ; posterior wings 

 with the outer margin black as on anterior wings, but broadly preceded by bluish-gi-ey. Anterior wings 

 beneath creamy white, the costal (from near base), apical, and outer (inwardly angulated) areas dark 

 fuscous, containing a subapical sulphureous spot ; posterior wings dark sulphureous, the outer margin 

 very broadly dark fuscous, which margin is inwardly sinuated and angulated. Body above and beneath 

 greyish-white. 



Female. Wings above dark fuscous ; anterior wings with two whitish streaks beyond cell, and three 

 large whitish streaks (the uppermost obscure) beneath cell, divided by the second and third median 

 nervules ; posterior wings with the basal half more or less greyish, the fuscous being darkest at margin, 

 and from thence along the nervules. Anterior wings beneath as above, but with the greyish markings 

 larger and brighter, an obscure paler subapical spot, and with a long greyish streak in cell ; posterior 

 wings sulphureous or greyish (as in specimen figured*), the neuration and the outer margin (broadly) 

 dark fuscous. 



Exp. wings, (? & 2 , 47 to 64 millim. 



Hab. — Continental India; Bombay (Leith — coll. Dist.); Sikkim (de Niceville). — Malay Peninsula; 

 Province Wellesley (colls. Saiier & Dist.) ; Perak (Kiinst. — -Calc. Mus.) ; Sungei Ujong (Durnford — coll. Dist.) ; 

 Malacca (Biggs — -coll. Dist.). — Borneo; Sandakan (Pryer — coll. Dist.). 



This species varies remarkably in size, as the above dimensions testify ; it is, however, 

 constant in markings, and is an abundant species. 



3. Appias enarete, var. 



Pirns Enarete, Boisduval, Sp. Gen. i. p. 480, n. 61 (1886); 



Feisth. Eev. Zool. 1839, t. 18, f. 1. 

 Appias enarete, Butl. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1872, p. 47, n. 37. 

 Tachyris enarete. Wall. Trans. Ent. Soc. ser. 3, vol. iv. ji. 366, 



n. 10 (1867) ; Driice. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1873, p. 3.55, n. 6. 



Male. Wings above very similar to those of the preceding 

 species {A. Iiippo), but with the bluish-grey submargiual 

 border to the posterior wings broader. Wings beneath as in 

 A. liippo, but the anterior wings with the subapical spot 

 white, instead of yellow, and the posterior wings having the 

 fuscous outer margin much broader, and the base of costal 

 margin, the costal and subcostal nervures, and the subcostal nervules more or less infuscated. 

 Exp. wings, <? , 64 to 70 millim. 



Hab. — Malay Peninsula; Sungei Ujong (Durnford— coll. Dist.) ; Malacca (coll. Moore). — Sumatra 

 (Forbes— coll. Dist.).— Borneo (Lowe— coll. Dist.); Sandakan (Pryer— coll. Dist.). 



The female is no doubt closely allied to the corresponding sex of A. hippo, Init having the 

 nervures and nervules of the posterior wings infuscated as in the male. This last character 

 is not so prominent in the specimens from the Malay Peninsula as in those from Borneo, and 

 the fuscous margin of the ]iosterior wings is very slightly narrower. 



Fig. 103. — Appias cniiretc J . 



This is probably a rubbed specimen. Fresh examples have the ground colour yellowish. 



