RHOPALOCKUA MALAYASA. itur, 



Genus iJlDAKl. 



Hiihiri, Distant, unb'd, p. 392. 



This genus differs from Krionota and (iniKjurn in liiivinj; the uii])er disco-cellular nervulc of tlic 

 anterior wings longer than the lower; the base of tlu> sci'ond nudiau ncrvulc of tlie unturior wings is 

 also not more than twice as far apart from lower as from \\\)\h-y niciliiin ncrvule. 



Three species are found in the Malay Pcninsuhi, and arc licrc inchidcil in llie genus. 



1. Hidari irava. (Tab. XXXIV., tig. 15 5 .) 



He.spi'n'ii Irnra, Moore (Horsf. & Moore), Cat. Lep. Mas. E.i.C. \ol. i. p. •2G1. u. 583 11857); Pl(itz, Stett. 



Ent. Zeit. xliii. p. 328, ii. 80 (1882). 

 Celanoirhinus Thriu\ Hiibu. (nee Limi.), Zutr. Ex. Schmett. f. 875, H7(i (1832|. 

 Hesjieria Hijpapa, Hew. Descr. Hesp. p. 25, u. 7 (1808). 

 Krionota IbjiKrpa, Mab. Ann. Snc. Eut. Belg. xxi. p_ 35, u. 115 (187H|. 

 Casi/dim irani, Butl. Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2, Zool. vol. i. p. 553, n. 2 (1877 1. 

 Krionota irara, Mab. Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg. xxi. p. 35, n. IIG (1878). 



Male and Female. Wings above chocolate-brown ; anterior wings witli the Inisal costal area rufous 

 and the disk much darker, containing four pale ochraceous spots, situate one in cell and three beneath cell 

 divided by the median ncrvules and two (sometimes only one) small greyish subai)ical spots ; posterior 

 wings with the fringe greyish-ochraceous. Wings beneath very much paler than above; anterior wings 

 with the disk blackish, spotted as above, and with small fuscous spots divided by the lower discoidal 

 nervule; posterior wings with usually four small fuscous discal spots in curved series. I'.ody and legs 

 more or less eoncolorous with wings. 



Exp. wings, <? and ? , .52 to (54 millim. 



H.\B.— Malay Peninsula ; Penang (coll. Dist.) ; Perak (Kiiust.— coll. Dist.) ; Malacca (coll. Staud. : 

 Pinwill— Brit. Mus. ; Biggs— coll. Dist.).— Java (Horsf.). 



2. Hidari sybirita. (Tab. XXXV., fig. 24.) 



Hespnia Sijlnrita, liewitsou, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. -1, vol. xviii. p. 451 (187G). 



Wings above chocolate-brown ; anterior wings with three discal pale ochraceous spots, one in cell 

 and two beneath, divided by the second median nervule, and three small subapical greyish spots in 

 suberect series ; posterior wings with the fringe greyish-ochraceous. Wings beneath paler than above : 

 anterior wings with the inner and suliapical areas somewhat violaceous, and spotted as above ; posterior 

 wings with a discal constellation of dark fuscous spots. 



Exp. wings, 68 millim. 



Hab. — Malay Peninsula; Singapore (coll. Hewitson). 



The figure is taken from the typical specimen in the collection of the lat.^ Mr. Hewitson, 

 and this constitutes at present my whole laiowlodgo of the si)ecies. 



3. Hidari staudingeri, //. .s/». ■ (Tuli. XXXV., fig. 25). 



Wings above chocolate-brown ; anterior wings with an ochraceous, irregularly transverse discal 

 macular fascia, composed of one spot in cell and three spots iK'ncatb divided by the two lower median 

 - Named after Dr. Stau.linjjer, of Dresden, tLe j^reat living authority on Palearctic Lepiaoi-tcra. 



