448 RHOPALOCERA MALAYAN A. 



inwardly margined with small black spots, with luiiules and dark marginal fascise as on anterior wings. 

 Win"s beneath very much paler than above, the stramineous areas more nearly confluent in the male. 



Exp. wings, a" & ? , -10 to 48 millim. 



Hi^. — Mergui Archipelago (coll. Anderson). — Malay Peninsula; Province Wellesley (Birch — coll. 

 Dist.) ; Perak (Kiinstl. — Calc. Mas.) ; Larut (Durnford — coll. Dist.). — Borneo (Druce) ; Sandakan (Prj'er — 

 coll. Dist.). — Philippine Islands ; Mindoro (Felder). 



Fam. ERYCINID^ (autra, p. 185). 

 Subfam. LIBYTH^IN^. 



Lihi/thieiiur, Bates, Jouni. Ent. ii. p. 176 (1864) ; Moore, Lep. Ceyl. vol. i. p. 67 (1881) ; Marsh. & da Nic. 



Butt. India, Burm. & Ceyl. vol. i. 18 (1882). 

 Uhi/theidic, Westw. Gen. Diurn. Lep. p. 412 (18.51); Godm. & Salv. Biol. Ceutr. Amer. Kbop. vol. i. p. 359 



(1884). 

 This sul)family of the En/cinidce is at once distinguishable from the Ncmcohiime by the great 

 development of the palpi, which are very long and protruding, and united at their apices, thus forming 

 a long conical beak. The pupa is also freely suspended by the tail. 



The species of Lilnitha-iiiii' are apparently well included in one genus, and are not only 

 distributed in the temperate and tropical portions of the Old World, but are also found in the 

 Nearctic and Neotropical Regions. None, however, have been recorded from Australia or the 

 Islands of the Pacific. 



Genus LIBYTHEA. 



Lihijthfa, Fabricius, 111. Mag. vi. p. 284 (1807) ; Latr. Enc. Mcth. ix. p. 10 (1819) ; Westw. Gen. Diurn. Lep. 



p. 412 (1851) ; Moore, Lep. Ceyl. vol. i. p. 67 (1881) ; Godm. & Salv. Biol. Ceiitr. Am. Kliop. vol. i. 



p. 859 (1884). 

 ILecaerije, Ochseuh. Schmett. Eur. iv. p. 32 (1816); Hiibn. Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 100 (181G). 

 Chilea, Billb. Enum. lus. p. 79 (1820). 



As this genus represents the subfamily, the diagnostic characteristics already given for 

 the LUnjtha'imv are equally applicable to the genus Lihijthca, and need not be recapitulated. 



1. Libythea myrrha. (Tab. XLIL, fig. 2.) 



Lilii/tliM ]\I,/ni„i, Godart, Euc. Metb. ix. p. 171, u. 4 (1819) ; Boisd. Sp. Gen. i. t. 10, f. 8 (1836) ; Gray, Lep. 



Lis. Nep. t. 12, f. 4 (1840) ; Horsf. & Moore, Cat. Lep. Mus. E. I. C. vol. i. p. 240, n. 518 (1857) ; 



Wall. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1869, p. 335, n. 1 ; Druce, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1873, p. 347, n. 1 ; Moore, Proc. 



Zool. Soc. 1878, p. 832 ; ibid. 1882, p. 243. 

 Ihramje Mi/nlu,, Hiibn. Zutr. Ex. Schmett. f. 789, 790 (1832). 



Wings above very dark chocolate-brown ; anterior wings with a broad longitudinal streak passing along 

 the median nervure and continued towards outer margin, and two subapical spots — sometimes separate, 

 but generally connected, at their angles — reddish-ochraceous ; posterior wings with a broad central reddish- 

 ochraceous fascia which is angulated near apes. Anterior wrings beneath much paler than above, the 

 longitudinal fascia broader, the subapical spots distinctl_y sei)avated, the apex with a violaceous tinge ; 

 posterior wings beneath violaceous, thickly mottled with dark strigte, a dark purplish patch near apex, 

 and tlie central fascia as above pale and obscurely seen beneath. Body and legs more or less concolorous 

 with wings. 



Hxp. wings, t? , 50 millim. 



