378 RHOPALOCERA MALAYANA. 



1. Matapa aria. (Tab. XXXV., tig. 8.) 



hmene Aria, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1865, p. 784 ; Wood-Mas. & de Nic. J. A. S. Beng. xlix. p. 241, n. 75 (1880). 

 Pamphih Aria, Bull. Trans. Liuu. Soc. ser. 2, Zool. vol. i. p. 554, u. 1 (1877). 

 flesperia Aria, Plotz, Stett. Ent. Zeit. xliii. p. 315, n. 4 (1882). 

 Matapa Aria, Moore, Lep. Ceyl. vol. i. p. 104, t. GO, f. 1, la (1881). 



The figure is taken from a Malaccan specimen in the British Museum, and the foUowing 

 is Mr. Moore's original description : — 



" Male and female chocolate-brown. 



" Male. Upperside pale brown ; fore wing with a short impressed comma-like grey streak obliquely 

 beneath the cell. Cilia yellowish white. Underside bright ferruginous-brown. Palpi ferruginous-brown." 



"Female. Upperside dark chocolate-brown, without the impressed streak; cilia of hind wing pale 

 orange-yellow. Underside bright ferruginous-brown." 



Exp. wings, " <? Is, $ 2i inches." 



H.U3.— Continental India ; Bengal (Moore).— Ceylon (Thwaites— coll. Dist.).— Andaman Islands; Port 

 Blair (Wood-Mas. & de Nic.).— Malay Peninsula; Malacca (Pinwill— Brit. Mus.).— Java (Horsf.). 



Several accounts of the habits of this species have been given by observers in Ceylon. 

 At Colombo Capt. Hutchison found it in " Plains and forest. During S.W. Monsoon. Settles 

 on leaves." At Kandy Capt. Wade-Dalton reports it as " Uncommon. Found in Guinea- 

 cn-ass": whilst Mr. Mackwood states that it " appears twice a year generally— in January and 

 July ; at other times very scarce." * 



Genus PITHAURIA. 



nthauria, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1878, p. 689. 



This genus has the upper disco-cellular uervule of the anterior wings longer than the lower 

 disco-cellular, thus differing from MatajM, whilst from Zea, with which it agrees in that respect, it is 

 differentiated by the position of the median nervules of the anterior wings, of which the second has its 

 base less than twice as far apart from that of the lower as from that of the upper median nervule. 



In his description of this genus Mr. Moore does not describe the neuration, but only 

 states "venation similar to Fainphila." It is evident that at that time Mr. Moore had not 

 recognised the true genus Pamphila, and therefore these remarks are incorrect. The genus, 

 however, is fixed by its type, which is here described. 



1. Pithauria murdava. (Tab. XXXV., fig. 9 <? .) 



himw murdava, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1805, p. 784 ; Druce, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1873, p. 359, n. 7. 

 Pithaui-ia murdava, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1878, p. 089, t. xlv. f. 13. 



Male. Wings above olivaceous-brown ; anterior wings with the base greyish, and with six small pale 

 ochraceous discal spots, situate two in cell, two beyond cell separated by the fifth subcostal nervule, and 

 two beneath cell separated by the second median nervule; posterior wings greyish, with the margins 

 broadly ohvaceous-brown. Wrings beneath brownish-ochraceous ; anterior wings with the disk blackish, 

 and spotted more or less as above; posterior wings with indistinct ochraceous discal and submargmal 



* Moore's Lep. Ceyl. vol. i. p. 164. 



