424 RHOPALOCEIIA MA LAY AN A. 



AViiij;s beneath pale brownish, with a violaceous tinge ; anterior wings with the following dark castaneous 

 linear fasciae : — three crossing cell, one passing through lower apex of cell and continued to lower median 

 nervule, after which it is inwardly curved and more obscure towards inner margin, an obscure fascia 

 beyond cell almost at right angles to the preceding one, a narrow curved submarginal fascia, and a very 

 obscure and narrow marginal line ; beiaeath the lower median nervule the ground colour is more or less 

 bronzy. Posterior wings with the following linear dark castaneous fasciae : — two crossing cell from costal 

 margin, one crossing apex of cell and extending from costal margin to near lower median nervule, and one 

 submarginal which tends towards the apex of the preceding and is then recurved upwardly to a little above 

 anal angle, a curved fascia almost following the submediau nervure and a marginal linear fascia terminating 

 above the caudate prolongation, which is more or less castaneous and has two small dark ocellated spots ; 

 two somewhat large ocellated spots, the first between the subcostal nervules and the second between the 

 two lower median nervules and more or less uniting the two outer castaneous fascias. Body and legs 

 more or less concolorous with wings. 



Exp. wings, (? , 115 millim. 



Hab. — Malay Peninsula; Perak (Kiinst. — colls. Semper, Kibbe, Dist., and Calc. Mus.). 



The position of this proposed species is more that of a constant local form of A. portheus, 

 Felcl.,* and is intermediate between that and the Bornean A. ottomana, Butl. All these 

 so-called species are almost exactly similar in markings beneath, and so also are A. amijthaon, 

 Doul)l., and A. weshvoodii, Butl.,f supposing both of these are really not conspecific with 

 .1. jiurtJiriis. At all events they form a small group of so-called species, distributed over a 

 continuous or contiguous area, possessing a common facies, and differing localhj in slight, if 

 though constant respects, and generally by the difference in size of the violaceous subapical 

 fascia to the anterior wings. 



Genus ZEUXIDIA {antca, p. 72). 



1. Zeuxidia amethystus {antni, p. 72), car. $ . (Tab. XXXVIII., fig. 5.) 



Since describing and figuring the above I have received from Perak the male specimen 

 now figured which possesses only two ocellated spots on the under surface of the posterior 

 wings, and dijffers somewhat in the bluish markings above. This is really the typical form of 

 the species, but I do not imagine that the variety previously figured is anything but another 

 phase of the specific form of Z. amethnstus. 



2. Zeuxidia doubledaii. (Tab. XXXVIII., fig. 6 ? .) 



Zeiuidia Doiiblfddii, Westwood, Gen. Diurn. Lep. p. 329, n. 2, iwW, t. 52, f. 1 (1851) ; Marsh. & de Nic. Butt. 

 Ind., Burm. & Ceyl. vol. i. p. 287, u. 274 (1882). 



Male. Wings above very dark chocolate-brown ; anterior wings with a curved, subapical pale 

 violaceous-blue fascia, which commences at costa a little beyond end of cell, and is narrowed and 

 terminates near outer angle ; posterior wings with a broad submarginal pale violaceous-blue fascia 

 extending from costa to near anal angle, where it is narrowed. "Wings beneath pale brownish- 

 ochraceous, both wings crossed by a narrow castaneous fascia commencing near costa on anterior 

 wings at a little beyond end of cell and terminating on posterior wings at anal angle ; beyond this fascia 

 there is on anterior wings a small and very obscure greyish subapical spot, and on posterior wings two 

 * A species found in North-East India and Upper Teuasserim. t Both recorded from Sylliet. 



