RHOPALOCERA MALA YANA. 



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2. Choaspes harisa. (Tab. XXXIV., fig. 22 <? .) 



Ismene Harisa, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1865, p. 782; Mab. Ann. See. Ent. Belg, xsi. p. 81 n 105 (187H)- 

 Wood-Mas. & do Nic. J. A. S. Beng. vol. i. p. 255, n. 110 (1881) ; Plotz^'stett. Ent. Zeit. xlv ,, O-l' 

 n. G (1884). 



Hesperiii harisa, Butl. Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2, Zool. vol. i. p. 551, n. 1 (1877) 



Choaspes harisa, De Nic. .J. A. S. Bong. vol. li. p. 04, n. 194, t. x. f. 8 (1882) 



Male. Wings above dull vinaeeous-brown ; anterior wings with the disk somewhat paler and with nu 

 ochraceous costal streak; posterior wings with the fringe palo ochracoous and the co.stal area pale 

 greyish-ochraceoiis. Wings beneath paler and more ochraceous ; anterior wings with a curved pale discal 

 fascia divided by the nervules, and situate just beyond end of cell ; inner marginal area pale greyish- 

 ochraceous ; posterior wings with the neuratiou and intermediate linear fasci® and the fringe brighter 

 ochraceous ; a black spot margined with ochraceous at base and a discal curved pale fascia divided by 

 the nervules as on anterior wings. Body and legs more or less concolorous with wings. 



Female. The following is Mr. Moore's description of this sex :— " Upper side dark purple-brown ; the 

 base of wings greyish, with steel-blue gloss. Body greyish. Cilia of hind wing pale orange-yellow. 

 Underside as in male ; posterior margin of fore wing with a less-defined pale patch."* 



Exp. wings, 46 to 50 millim. 



Hab.— Continental India ; Sikkim (de Nic.) ; Calcutta (Plotz) ; Darjeeling (Moore).— Malay Peninsula ; 

 Province Wellesley (coll. Dist.) ; Malacca (Pinwill— Brit. Mus.) ; Singapore (coll. Godfery). 



3. Choaspes chuza. (Tab. XXXIV., fig. 27.) 



Ismene Chuza, Hewitson, Ex. Butt. iv. Ism. 1. 1, f. 4 (1867) ; Druce, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1873, p. 358, n. 1 ; Plutz, 

 Stett. Ent. Zeit. xlv. p. 61, n. 36 (1884). 



Wings above dark purplish -brown, then- basal area paler ; anterior wings with an ochraceous costal 

 streak, three contiguous pale discal spots divided by the nervules and situate at end of cell, and four small 

 white contiguous subapical spots divided by the third, fourth, and fifth subcostal nervules ; posterior wings 

 with a broad, central ochraceous fascia, and the fringe of the same colour. Wings beneath paler, 

 particularly their basal areas ; markings as above, but the discal spots on anterior wings connected by 

 pale ochraceous to the costal and inner mai'gius. Body above concolorous with wings ; body beneath 

 and legs paler. 



Exp. wings, 44 to 46 millim. 



Hab. — Malay Peninsula; Province Wellesley (coll. Dist.) ; Singapore (coll. Godm. &, Salv.). — Borneo 

 (Druce) ; Sarawak (Hewitson). 



4. Choaspes? malayana. (Tab. XXXV., fig. 2.) 



hmenc walayana, Felder, Wien. Ent. Mon. iv. p. 401, n. 28 (I86O1 ; Raise Nov. Lep. iii. t. 72, f. 15 (I8661. 



This species is only known to the writer by Felder's description and figure, botb of wbicli 

 are here reproduced. Its generic position is therefore not determined. 



" Alls supra fuscis, subtus auticarum limbo costali, posticarum dimidio basali chalybjeis, his striga 

 discali alba. ^ ." 



Hab. — Malay Peninsula; Malacca (Felder). 



'■■ Proc. Zool. Soc. 1865, p. 783. 

 April 30, 1886. ^ ^ 



