440 RHOPALOCERA MALAYANA. 



Exp. wings, (? , 62 millim. ; ?, 70 to 75 millim. 



Hab. — Continental India; Cachar (coll. Dist.)- — Burma; Akyab (coll. Dist.). — Teuasserim ; Meetan 

 (Limborg — Moore). — Malay Peninsula; Perak (Kiinstl. — Gale. Mus.). 



The few specimens from Perak which liave passed through my hands are certainly — 

 especially in the males — more melanic in hue than my Indian and Burmese examples. Perak 

 specimens are also variahle in the intensity of the markings heneath, as is shown l)y those here 

 figured. 



Genus TANAECIA (auka, p. 128). 

 Ci. Tanaecia consanguinea. (Tab. XLIIL, fig. 4.) 



Taiiiifciii consdnipiiiiea, Distant, ' Eutomologist,' vol. xix. p. 11 (1886). 



Male. Closely allied to T. puhisam, but differing in the following i^articulars : — The six contiguous 

 transverse spots on the apical half of the anterior wings are more regular in size, and therefore their inner 

 margins are subparallel, and not so deeply and sinuously irregular, as in T. imlasara ; these spots are also 

 darker in hue ; the posterior wings have the outer margin of the contiguous spots on outer area bordered 

 with greyish-white, and the violaceous apical shading in T. pulasara is absent in T. consanguinea ; anterior 

 wings beneath with corresponding differences as above. 



Exp. wings, (? , 55 millim. 



Hab. — Malay Peninsula; Perak (Kiinstl. — coll. Ribbe). — Singapore (coll. Godfery). 



7. Tanaecia robertsi {aiitca, p. 132). 



This species is still only known to me by Mr. Butler's description, no specimen having 

 been found in any of the numerous collections which have passed through my hands during 

 the last few years. 



8. Tanaecia nicevillei.* (Tab. XL., fig. 9.) 



I'dnofcia nicrvillei, Distant, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 5, vol. xiv. p. 199 (1884). 



Male. Wings above very dark brownish, with a violaceous tinge ; anterior wings with the cell 

 crossed by two basal black lines, continued beneath to the submedian nervure, two black lines near 

 middle of cell, the innermost of which has a parallel line between the lower median nervule and the 

 submedian nervure, and a single black line at end of cell ; a small bluish spot near apex and a marginal 

 bluish fascia commencing about centre of wing and gradually widening to outer angle, where it 

 possesses two inner lanceolate black spots beneath the lower median nervule, and an inner black streak 

 at inner margin ; posterior wings with a very broad outer marginal bluish fascia, narrowest at apex of 

 wing, inwardly margined with small blackish spots, and containing a central series of blackish spots placed 

 between the nervules, which become practically obsolete at the area of the median nervules ; three obscure 

 blackish lines crossing cell, two near centre and one at apex ; abdominal margin brownish-ochraceous. 

 Wings beneath pale brownish-ochraceous ; anterior wings with the black linear markings as above, followed 

 by a transverse series of five broad fuscous streaks placed between the nervules, those at end of cell largest ; 

 a pale violaceous marginal fascia with an inner series of lanceolate blackish spots ; posterior wings with 

 the broad outer bluish fascia as above, but paler and more violaceous, its central spots smaller, but more 

 continuous and distinct, the throo dark lines crossing cell as above, a looped line beneath the costal 



* Named after my frieuil Mr. L. de Nicuville, of Calcutta, joint author witli Col. Marshall of the ' Buttertiies of India, 

 Buniia and Ceylon.' 



