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RHOPALOCERA MALAYAN A. 



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Fill. Hi. — yptliiiiia fa.sciata. 



5. Ypthima fasciata, var. 



Yptliuiia fdsiidta, Hewitsoii, Traus. Eut. Soc. ser. 3, vol. ii. p. 287, n. 12 

 (1865) ; Druce, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1873, p. 340, u. 2. 



The following is Mr. Hewitson's original description : — 



" Upperside brown. Both wings undulated with grey, chiefly beyond 

 the middle ; both crossed at the middle by a common band of darker 

 colour, the margins dark brown. Anterior wing with one large bipupillated 

 ocellus ; posterior wing with live or six obscurely marked upon a band of 

 rufous-brown." 



" Underside grey, beautifully undulated throughout with rufous- 

 brown ; both wings crossed by two bands of darker colour. Anterior wing with the ocellus as above, but 

 more distinct ; posterior wing with seven small ocelli of nearly equal size, placed as above upon a band of 

 rufous-brown, all black, the pupils silver, the irides orange-yellow." 

 Exp. wings, 38 to 40 miUim. 



Hab. — Malay Peninsula ; Ferak (coll. Dist.). — Sumatra (Hewitson). — Borneo ; Sarawak (Wall. — coll. 

 Dist.) ; Sandakan (Pryer— coll. Dist.). 



The Perak specimen here figured only differs from typical Bornean examples by the 

 somewhat paler hue of the under surface of the wings. It thus bears the same relationship to 

 the Bornean type as the Javan F. pamlocus exhibits to the Malay var. corticaria. 



Genus RAGADIA {to J'olluw Ypthima). 



Neonympha, subgenus lUiiiiidin, Westwood, Gen. Diuru. Lep. p. 376 (1861); Marsh. & de Nic. Butt. Ind., 

 Burm. & Ceyl. vol. i. p. 234 (1882). 



This genus is allied to Yjjtiiima, from which it may be at once synoptically separated by the very 

 short and acute discoidal cell to the posterior wings. In Ragadia the costal nervure of the anterior wings 

 is strongly swollen at the base, the first subcostal uervule of the anterior wings is alone emitted before the 

 end of the cell as in Yptlnma : the disco-cellular nervules concave, the lowermost longest ; discoidal cell of the 

 posterior wings very short and acute, the lower disco-cellular nervule apparently emitted from the subcostal 

 nervure, and joining the median nervure near the base of the lower median nervule ; this nervule is simple 

 in the female, but in the male is developed into a narrow glandular pouch. 



Of this very distinct and somewhat aberrant genus two species are known, one of which 

 appears to be confined to Northern India, Burma and Teuasserim, and the second, found in this 

 fauna, is also distributed through some of the islands of the Malayan Archipelago, and in the 

 Philippines diverges into several distinct forms, which have been estimated by different 

 lepidopterists as either varieties or distinct species. 



1. Ragadia crisia. (Tab. XIX., fig. 7). 



Euptychia Crisia, Hiibner, Zutr. Ex. Scbmett. f. 675, 676 (1832). 



iXeonympha {liayadio) Crisia, Westw. Gen. Diurn. Lep. p. 376, n. 26 (1851). 



Hipparchia Makuta, Hoisf. Cap. Lep. E. I. C. t. 5, f. 9, On (1829). 



Rayadia Makuta, Horsf. & Moore, Cat. Lep. Mas. E. I. C. vol. i. p. 226, n. 473 (1857). 



Rayadia Crisia, Butl. Cat. Satyr. Brit. Mus. p. 158, u. 1 (1868) ; Druce, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1873, p. 339, n. 1. 



Male and Female. Wings above pale greyish-brown ; anterior wings crossed by three oblique dark 

 fasciffi, — the one at base short and obscure, — a submarginal fascia of the same colour enclosing a series of 



