458 RHOPALOCEHA MALAYAN A. 



of filitlominal margin aud a larger one on costal border near the apex ; a narrow brown discocellular streak 

 and a discal series of irregulai'-shaped spots, a marginal row of blackish spots bordered within by a sinuous 

 line and outwardly by a linear marginal line, the third spot from anal angle large and blackest. Palpi 

 black above ; legs with prominent black bands ; antenufe black with white annular l)ands." 



Exp. wings, " <? R, 2 1 inch." 



Hab. — Ceylon; Kandy (Moore). — Malay Peninsula ; Malacca (coll. Staudinger). 



Mr. Moore describes the larva of this species as " light green, vermiform, middle segments 

 swollen. Pupa thick, blunt at the ends. Feeds on Sapindacete." 



Although at Kandy M. thwaitcsi is reported as "very common aud easy to capture,"* 

 one specimen only from the Malay Peninsula has up to this time passed through my hands. 



Genus LYCiENESTHES (antea, p. 232). 



2. Lycaenesthes bengalensis. (Tab. XLIV., fig. 9 c7 .) 



Lijcancsthes hemjalensis, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 18G5, p. 773, t. 41, f. 9 ; de Nic. J. A. S. Bang. vol. h. p. G2 (1882). 

 Pseuilodipsas bengalensis, de Nic. J. A. S. Beng. vol. l. p. 55 (1881). 

 Pseudodipsus bewjalensis, Druce, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1873, p. 351, u. 2, 



"Male. Upper side dark purple-blue, exterior margin defined by a narrow suffused black line; 

 a small indistinct black spot at anal angle ; abdominal margin brown. Underside pale greyish-brown ; 

 forewing with a short transverse double white line at the extremity of the cell, enclosing the discal veinlet, 

 l)eyond which are a transverse discal chain-like white band and an outer indistinct brownish submarginal 

 and a narrow white marginal line ; hindwing with basal, discoidal, and a curved discal series of chain-like 

 white bauds ; an indistinct inwardly angled, double-luuulated, white marginal line ; a black spot bordered 

 above with orange-red near anal angle of exterior margin ; a small white-encircled black spot on middle 

 of abdominal margin. Head above brown ; eyes encircled with white. Palpi above and beneath brown, 

 at the sides white. Thorax, body, and legs beneath white." 



"Female. Upperside pale purple-brown, with suffused bluish patch at the base; exterior margin 

 suffused with darker brown ; hindwing with an inner narrow white exterior marginal line. Underside as 

 in male." 



Exp. wings, " 1;^ inch." 



Hab. — Continental India; Bengal (Moore); Sikkim (de Nic). — Malay Peninsula; Malacca (coll. 

 Staudinger; Biggs — coll. Dist.). — Borneo (Druce). 



3. Lycaenesthes tessellata. (Tab. XLIL, tig. 13 >? ; Tab. XLIV., tig. 21 ? .) 



Xiphanda Tcssfllata, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1874, p. 572, t. 66, f. 6. 

 Lijcicnesthes athiops, Dist. Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 5, vol. svii. p. 253 (1886). 



Male. Wings above dark violaceous-blue ; wings beneath greyish mottled with purplish. Anterior 

 wings with the following dark fuscous markings : — a broad basal streak beneath costal nervure extending 

 to about middle of cell, where it is joined to a large spot which crosses and extends beneath cell ; a large 

 discocellular spot at end of cell ; a curved fascia between end of cell and outer margin, extending from 

 the second subcostal nervule to the second median uervule ; a somewhat similar fascia extending from 

 second median nervule near end of cell to near inner margin ; paler narrow marginal and submarginal 

 fasciiB containing a large, round, dark spot between the second and third median nervules. Posterior 

 wings with the following dark markings : — four basal spots, two large spots beyond cell divided by the 

 upper subcostal nervule, a marginal series of smaller dark spots and paler discal spots, of which the most 



* Lep. Ceyl. vol. i. p. 72 (1881). 



