RHOPALOCEllA MALAYANA. 319 



Hebomoia Gtaucippe, Horsf. & Moore, Cat. Ltp. Mas. E.I. C. vol. i. p. 00, u. 105 (1857); Moore, Proc. Zool. 

 Soc. 1878, p. 837; Lep. Ceyl. vol. i. p. 127, I. li), f. 1, 1„, /, (1881); Siicll. Tijd. Ent. six. p. 17, 

 n. 62 (1876) ; Lep. v. Midd. Sum. p. 23, n. 1 (1880) ; Butl. Tnuis. Linn. Soc. ser. 2, Zool. vol. i. p. 551, 

 n. 1 (1877) ; De Nic. J. A. S. Beng. vol. i„ p. 52, u. 57 (1881) ; Ibid. vol. li. p. 01 (1882) ; .\urivill. 

 Kougl. sv. vet. Acad. Handl. Baud 19, no. 5, pp. 53—1 (l8iS2|. 



Male. Wings above creamy-white, with a viry faint pale sreonish tinge ; anterior \ving.s with the 

 basal half of costal area speckled with darlv fuscous ; apex (crossing upper end of cell and more or less 

 oblique to near outer angle) blackish, containing six large and elongate contiguous reddish-orange spots, 

 only divided by the nervules, the second, third, fourth and fifth containing a blackish spot near their 

 apices, the sixth shortest and inwardly blending with the blackish ground colour, the first narrowest, and 

 the first and second preceded at their base by a small reddish spot of the same hue situate in upper 

 extremity of cell ; posterior wings with a few marginal blackish spots (placed on the apices of the nervules) 

 on the apical half of wing. Anterior wings beneath creamy-white, the black apical area above mottled 

 pale brownish beneath; posterior wings mottled pale brownish, with darker reticulations and with an 

 oblique fuscous line passing through centre of cell and terminating on outer margin between the discoidal 

 and upper median nervules. Body above and abdomen beneath pale greenish, anterior collar of pronotum 

 and head pale brownish ; thorax beneath and legs more or less concolorous with wings ; legs streaked with 

 brownish. 



Female. Eesembling the male, but the anterior wings above with the creamy-white having a more 

 decided pale greenish tinge, the blackish spots at the apices of the reddish-orange spots larger ; posterior 

 wings with a marginal and submarginal series of large dark fuscous spots, the marginal series being more 

 or less confluent. Wings beneath as in male. 



Exp. wings, S and 2 , 90 to 100 millim. 



Hab. — Continental India ; Sikkim (de Niceville) ; Darjeeliug, Madras (coll. Dist.). — Ceylon (Thwaites — 

 coll. Dist.). — Tenasserim; Houugduran Source (Limborg — Moore). — Malay Peninsula; Perak (Kunst. — 

 Calc. Mus. ; coll. Godfeiy) ; Malacca (Pinwill — -Brit. Mus.) ; Sumatra (Snellen). — Java (Horsfield) ; Batavia 

 (Snellen). 



Mr. de Niceville writes of this species that " it has a very rapid flight; when settling on a 

 flower it is very inconspicuous, the mottled hind wing and the apex of the fore wing, which is 

 also much mottled and which alone is left uncovered by the hind wing, render it diflicult to he 

 seen on account of its close resemblance to a dead leaf." * 



In Java, according to Dr. Horsfield, the larva feeds " on a species of Capparis, 

 distinguished by the native name Wanwaiinaii." i In Ceylon the same food-plant is recorded 

 by Dr. Thwaites. I 



The larva and pupa have been already figured in this work {mUca, p. 283, figs. 91, 02). 



Genus NEPHERONIA. 



Xepheronia, Butler, Cist. Eut. vol. i. pp. 38, 53 (1870); Moore, Lep. Ceyl. vol. i. p. 138(1881). 

 Valeria, Horsf. Cat. Lep. E.I.C. p. 139 (1829). 

 Eronia (part), Doubl. Gen. Dim'u. Lep. p. 04 (1847). j 



Anterior wings subtriangular, costal margin arched and convex, outer margin generally more or less 

 concave (sometimes scarcely discernible), inner margin slightly sinuate. Costal nervure extending to 



* J. A. S. Beng. vol. L, p. 52 (1881). + Cat. Lep. E. I. C. p. 131. I Moore's Lep. Ceyl. vol. i. p. 128. 



§ Mr. Moore (Lep. Ceyl. vol. i. p. 138) gives Eronia (part), Boisduval, as a sjTionjiii of this genus. This, however, 

 is a sUp, as Boisduval's tj-jie, and only species given, is the E. clcodora, Hubn., which is given by Mr. Butler as the type ot that 

 genus and not included in his Nephcronia. 



