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" Oblique belt moderately broad, greenish blue ; secondaries elongated as in /'. Francldi, with 

 well-marked caudal appendage, apical markings white with liluish liorders; prevalent colouring on external 

 area of secondaries pinky greyish." 



Exp. wings, 72 millim. 



Hab.— Malay Peninsula; Perak (Kiinst.— Calc. Mus.). 



Mr. Butler described P. uuifomi.'< from a spccinioii without a " locality-label," wliidi he 

 correctly surmised might prove to be a Malaccan species. It is, however, rare, the commoner 

 one being the following, P. angelica. The figure here given is from a Terak specimen. 



3. Prothoe angelica. 



Prothoe am/elica, Butler, Anu. & Mag. Nat. Hist. scr. 5, vol. svi. p. 53 (1885). 



"Oblique belt of primaries shining azure or greenish, with a series of irregular white dashes to 

 represent the central belt ; * apical area of secondaries purplish black ; prevalent colouring on external 

 area of secondaries below pale green." 



Exp. wings, 68 to 74 millim. 



Hab.— Tenasserim (Butler).— Malay Peninsula; Perak (Kiinst.- Calc. :\Ius.) ; Sungei Ujong (Godfery 

 —coll. Dist.).— Sumatra (Butler).— Borneo (coll. Dist.). 



I have not figured P. amjelka, liccause it is easily differentiated from /'. uni/ormis ])y the 

 oblique bluish fascia to the anterior wings possessing a central series of white dashes or spots. 



Capt. Godfery sent me the following interesting particulars relating to the capture of this 

 species :— " While exploring a path in the forest parallel to the Linggi in Sungei Ujong, in 

 company with a friend, we disturbed a butterfly of swift flight which settled high up on the 

 trunk of a tree. Being beyond the reach of our nets we startled it from its resting place, when 

 it flew to another tree and alighted in a similar position. We tried several times to secure it, 

 but in vain, the height at which it rested rendering it safe from our attacks. Stimulated by 

 curiosity at its unique habit of always selecting the trunk of a tall tree for its resting place, 

 where, from its assuming a vertical position, with the edges only of its wings directed towards 

 the spectator, and from its protective coloration, it was very hard to see, we determined to 

 eflect its capture, and eventually did so, by tying the handles of our nets together with a 

 handkerchief. I imagine it to be of crepuscular habits from its reluctance to fly far, or indeed 

 to leave its resting place," lirc. 



Genus SYMPH^EDEA {antca, p. 112). 

 2. Symphaedra pardalis. (Tab. XL., fig. 7 ? .) 



Sijmiiluedra pardalh, Staudioger & Schatz, Esotisch, Scbmett. t. 5i (1885). 



Female. Closely resembling the female of S. dirtca above ; wings beneath pale chocolate-brown, not 

 greenish-oehraceous as in S. dirtca, but spotted as in that species, the spots pale yellowish ; posterior wings 

 with the abdominal area pale violaceous. 



Male, t Resembling the female, but smaller. 



Exp. wings, 2 , 88 milim. 



Hab.— Malay Peninsula ; Perak (Kunst.— Calc. Mus.) ; Sungei Ujong (Durnford— coll. Dist.). 



* As iu P. franchii. 



\ .According to Staudinger and Scbatz's figairc, no description Laving yet been published. 



