432 RHOPALOCERA MALAYANA. 



Darjeeling (coll. Dist.). — Malay Peninsula; Perak (Goodrich — coll. Dist.). — Nias Island (coll. Dist.). — 

 Borneo ; Sarawak (coll. Dist.). 



I am indebted to Lieut. Goodrich for the acquisition of this and the following species from 

 the Malay Peninsula. In the North-West Himalaya the Kev. J. H. Hocking found the larva 

 of this species "on nettle, August, 6200 feet";* and in Sikkim Mr. de Niceville describes 

 it as "a very rapid flyer for so small an insect, but it frequently settles."! 



2. Symbrenthia hypatia. (Tab. XLH., fig. C J .) 



LiKKjiiuK Ilijpatiii, Wallace, Trans. Ent. See. 18G9, p. 345. 



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



" Male. Form of wings nearly as in L. hippoda, the outline a little more even. 



"Above: the markings are nearly as in L. hippoda, but the rufous band and markings are all 

 enlarged, and have a very irregular outline, especially on the anterior wings. 



" Beneath : quite distinct from L. liij^j"'*^^" • the ground colour whitish ochre, veined in a complicated 

 net-work with deep rusty brown ; near the middle of the outer margin on the upper-wings is an elongate 

 blackish spot with a blue centre, enclosed on its inner side with a horse-shoe and a lunule of the ground 

 colour ; on the outer margin of the hind-wings is a row of brown spots enclosed by a double row of lunules 

 on each side, the two central spots are violet-ash powdered with black, while the lateral ones consist of a 

 brown ring with a whitish centre." 



Exp. wings, " 1-9 inch." 



Hab. — Malay Peninsula ; Perak (Goodrich — coll. Dist.). — Java (Wallace). 



The above description, supplemented by Mr. Wallace's further remark, " This insect is 

 somewhat intermediate between L. Hippoda and L. Hijpselis," I so thoroughly applies to the 

 si)ecies captured by Lieut. Goodrich, and here figured, that I have little doul)t as to the 

 identification proving correct. I have been unable to compare it with the " type," as though 

 Mr. H. Grose Smith acquired Mr. Wallace's collection, he writes to me, "I have no named 

 species ' Hypatia,' though possibly it may be among my specimens." 



Genus CHARAXES (antca, p. 101). 

 9. Charaxes durnfordi. (Tab. XL., fig. 8 <? .) 



ciiiiraxix Durnfordi, Distant, Entomologist, vol. xvii. p. 191 (1881). 



^fale. Wmgs above dark brownish ochraceous; anterior wings with the apical half blackish, 

 containing two transverse series of greyish-white augulated spots placed between the nervules, and with a 

 somewhat obscure series of small greyish-white marginal spots, those at the outer angle largest and most 

 distinct ; two small obscure greyish-white spots at end of cell separated by the upper discoidal nervule ; 

 posterior wings with a very hroad marginal greyish-white fascia, inwardly lunulated and margined with 

 blackish, containing a central series of blackish spots with whitish centres, placed between the nervules— 

 that at anal angle duplex— and with a narrow submarginal blackish line. Wings beneath brownish-grey ; 

 anterior wings with the cell containing a small black basal spot, and centrally crossed by a darker spot 

 margined with blackish, an irregular darker fascia margined with blackish crossing wing at end of cell, 

 where it is widest ; beyond the fascia the ground colour is paler, and the whitish spots above are more or 

 less distinctly visible beneath, a :waved dark line separating the two discal series ; posterior wings with two 



■■■■ Proc. Zool. Soc. 1882, p. 24.3. | J. A. S. vol. l. p. 54 (1881). 



^, , L^ species found in North-Bast India, Nias Island, Sumatra, and Java, and therefore probably to be discovered in the 

 Malay Peninsula. 



