414 EHOPALOCERA MALAYANA. 



Hab. — Continental India ; Sikkim, Sibsagar (Marsh. & de Nic). — Tenasserim ; Ahsown, Taoo 

 (Limborg — Moore). — Malay Peninsula; Perak (Kuust. — Calc. Mas.). — Malacca (Godfery — coll. Dist.). 



Some examples from the Malay Peniusula, by the presence of the fifth margmal spot to the 

 upper surface of the posterior wings, approach the Javan form described by Felder under the 

 name of L. manthara,* but other specimens from the same locality exhibit only the four normal 

 spots. The female is figured by Messrs. Marshall and de Niceville, f and as described by those 

 authors differs principally from the male on the upper surface of the anterior wings, which are 

 " crossed beyond the cell by an angulate macular white band, consisting of a short oblique 

 bar from the costa to third I median nervule, below which are two triangular spots directed 

 inwards, one on each median interspace; a subapical bifid white spot near the costa." 



According to the experience of Capt. Godfery, this species in Malacca " frequents dark 

 shady places, passing the day at the foot of a tuft of bamboo, or on low shrubs under shady 

 trees. When disturbed it goes off with a rapid flight, soon settling again, however, unless it 

 has been several times alarmed." 



3. Lethe minerva. (Tab. XXXVI., fig. 8 <? .) 



Piqnlio Minerva, Fabricius, Syst. Ent. p. 493, n. 216 (1775) ; Sp. Ins. p. 74, n. 327 (1781); Maut. Ins. p. 87, 



u. 383 (1787) ; Eut. Syst. ill. p. 95, n. 295 (1793). 

 I'dinJio Arcadia, Cram. Pap. Ex. ii. t. 116, E, F (1779). 

 Temenis Arcadia, Hiibn. Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 34, n. 279 (1816). 

 (f Satyncs Caumus, Godt. Enc. Metb. ix. p. 479, n. 7 (1828). 



IMis Arcadia, Horsf. & Moore, Cat. Lep. Mus.E.I. C. vol. i. p. 219, n. 453 (1857). 

 Lethe Arcadia, Butl. Cat. Satyr. Brit. Mus. p. 118, n. 24 (1868) ; Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1878, p. 824. 

 Lethe Minerva, Butl. Cat. Fabr. Lep. p. 29, u. 4 (1869); Marsh. & de Nic. Butt. Ind., Burm. & Ceyl. vol. i. 



p. 122 (1882). 



Male. Wings above dark brown ; anterior wings with a sexual patch of differently formed scales near 

 the centre of the submedian nervure and surrounded by blackish hairs ; i30sterior wings with the outer 

 margin reddish ochraceous, and with an outer discal patch of the same colour, on which are situate three 

 dark spots separated by the two upper median uervules, a glandular patch of blackish hairs beneath cell 

 and between the two lower median nervules ; abdominal area somewhat paler in hue and clothed with long 

 hairs. Wings beneath pale violaceous-brown, both wings crossed by two narrow castaueous fasciae, the 

 first nearly straight crossing cells and commencing at subcostal nervure of anterior wings and angularly 

 terminating near submedian nervure of posterior wings, the outer fascia much waved and deeply angulated 

 on posterior wings, between this fascia and outer margin there are on anterior wings three or four 

 subobsolete ocellated spots placed between the nervules, and on the posterior wings there are six ocellated 

 spots — the lowermost bifid — the centres of which are ochraceous dusted with blackish and broadly 

 surrounded by warm ochraceous ; a submarginal castaneous fascia to both wings, and the margins 

 reddish ochraceous with an inner black line ; the anterior wings have a short oblique broken fascia in 

 cell and the lower disco-cellular nervule of the posterior wings is also shaded with castaneous. Body 

 above and beneath more or less concolorous with wings ; legs dark ochraceous. 



Exp. wings, 56 millim. 



Hab. — Tenasserim ; Ahsown (Limborg — Moore). — Malay Peninsula ; Perak (Kiinst. — Calc. Mus.). — 

 Sumatra (Smith). § — Java (Horsf. & Moore). 



* Eeise Nov. Lep. iii. p. 497, n. 861. f Butt. Ind., Burm. & Ceylon, vol. i. t. si. f. 24. 



J Upper median nervule of Messrs. Marshall & de Niceville's arrangement. 

 § In Bock, 'Head Hunters of Borneo,' Appendix V. 



