RHOPALOCERA MALAYANA. 



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thu apical and outer black area with a series of small pale spots. Posterior win-s with the neuratiou and 

 the outer margin blackish (the last often containins a small pale spot near anal an-lc as in the specimen 

 figured), the subcostal nervure and subcostal nervules being very broadly black. \Ving"s beneath much paler 

 than above, the posterior wings especially having a pearly reflection, the dark margins to I.ntl, win-s much 

 paler than above, but both containing a series of paler spots. Body above and beneath more" or less 

 concolorous with wmgs ; legs greyish, the tibise and tarsi pale brownish. 



Female. Wings above fuscous, with the following greyish-white markings :-anterior wings with two 

 long cellular streaks, a diseal curved series of six elongate spots beyond cell, placed between the nervules, 

 the fifth being short and broad, and the sixth longest, two long and inwardlv connected fasciate-like spots 

 between the third median nervule and the submedian nervure, and a submarginal series of smaller spots 

 placed between the nervules, the innermost of the series being that placed between the first and second 

 median nervules, and that at outer angle being duplex. Posterior wings marked much as the anterior 

 wings, but the diseal series of spots smaller and more uniform, the submarginal series more regular and 

 the base of the cell and the abdominal area more or less ochraceous. Anterior wings beneath paler than 

 above, but marked in like manner ; posterior wings paler greyish, the disk more or less infuscated, the 

 outer margin fuscous, with the submarginal row of pale spots as above. Body aliove and beneath more or 

 less concolorous with wings. 



Exp. wings, <? , 75 to 80 millim. ; 2 , 80 to 83 millim. 



Hae.— Continental India ; Canara (Brit. Mus.) ; Bengal (Stoliczka— coll. Feld.).— Burma (Brit. Mus. 

 and coll. Dist.).— Tenasserim (Brit. Mus.).— Malay Peninsula ; Quedah * (coll. Dist.) ; Province Wellesley 

 (coll. Dist.). 



I treat this species as a variety of .Y. hippiu, and as distinct from the X. valcriu, Cram., 

 by the character of the pale-spotted outer margin of the anterior wings. Even treated as a 

 distinct variety, considerable variation is discovered amongst the female examples, particularly 

 as regards the amount of ochraceous markings on the al)dominal area of the upper surface of 

 the posterior wings, and the depth of hue of the under surfaces of the same wings, which are 

 either infuscated as in the specimen figured, or almost greyish as in other examples. The 

 fuscous margin containing the series of pale spots is, however, always present. 



Subfam. PAPILIONIN.^. 



Papilioniwr, Swauison, Cab. Cycl. p. 87 (1840 1; Bates, Jonrn. Ent. 



vol. ii. p. 177 (1804) ; Moore, Lep. Ceyl. vol. i. p. 141 (1881) : 



Marsh. & de Nic. Butt. lud. Burm. & Ceyl. vol. i. p. 18 (1882). 

 Piijiilioniihr, Doubl. Gen. Diurn. Lep. i. p. 1 (184G): Trim. Piliop. 



Afr. Austr. p. 10 (1862). 

 Peijiilionidcs, Boisd. Sp. Gen. i. p. 171 ( 183(1 1 ; Westw. Introd. Mod. 



Class. Ins. vol. ii. p. 349 (1S4U). 



Abdominal margin of the hind wing curved inwardlv, not F'g- l?^'-— Lar™/'"' P"pa oi' i'a/"''» ;'«""'"■«■ 



, ^ " • (Iroiu Hoist. A: .Vooiv, Cat. I.c-p. Ins. .Mils. 



channelled to receive the abdomen. + Anterior tibire provided with K.I.C.) 



* I have adhered to the old way of spelling this name, though Keddah, or Kedah, is now the general speUiug. 



f By an unfortunate o\-ersigbt, at p. 283, in the diagnosis of the subfamily Pierince, the word "nor" has been 

 substituted for "but", thus completely destroyuig the tnie character: "nor chaneUed" shoidd read "but chauellcd." 

 The Pierince being thus partly distinguished from the Pajjilioniiuc by ha\ing the abdominal margins of tlie posterior 

 wings chaneUed to receive the abdomen. 



June '20, 1885. 4 n 



