460 RHOPALOCERA MALAYANA. 



The following are the characters given by Mr. Moore : — 



"Forewing short, triangnlar ; costa gently arched, apes acute, exterior margin slightly obhque, 

 even ; costal vein recurved ; first subcostal branch emitted at half length of the cell, second at one- 

 third, and third close to the end;" "cell recurved, broad; discocellulars nearly erect, radial 



from their middle ; middle median branch from near the end of the cell, lower at one third before the end ; 

 submcdian straight ; hindwing short, broad, bluntly oval ; exterior margin uneven, furnished with three 

 slender tails ; costal vein mirch curved its entire length ; first subcostal branch at one-third before end 

 of the cell ; discocellulars oblique, radial from their middle ; two upper median branches from end of the 

 cell, lower at one third before the end ; submedian slightly curved, internal recurved. Body short, thorax 

 stout ; palpi porrect, second joint squamose, slender, extending half beyond the head ; third joint 

 cylindrical, one-third length of second ; legs short ; antenns short, gradually thickening to a pointed 

 club." 



1. Horaga halba, ;?. sp. (Tab. XLIV., fig. 23.) 



Wings above violaceous-blue, anterior wings with the costal, apical and outer areas fuscous (the last 

 two very broadly so), and containing a discal whitish spot situate at about end of cell; posterior wings 

 with the costal and outer areas fuscous, a submarginal greyish-white line and the tail-like appendages with 

 their apices greyish. Wings beneath pale ochraceous, both wings crossed by a discal greyish-white fascia, 

 broadest on anterior wings where it commences at a little beyond end of cell, and narrowing on posterior 

 wings below median nervule where it is recurved and continued upwards to abdominal margin as a 

 metallic-greenish fascia inwardly margined with blackish, and followed beneath by a similar fascia ; a series 

 of marginal blackish spots near anal angle, inwardly margined with metallic-greenish and black ; one at 

 anal angle greyish dusted with black ; posterior margin with two blackish lines bordered on each side with 

 greyish. Body mutilated. 



Exp. wings, 28 millim. 



Hab. — Malay Peninsula ; Peuang (coll. Dist.). 



//. halba belongs to a group of species in which great similarity of colour and markings 

 is found. I have, however, carefully compared it with the other described species of the 

 genus, and in the shape of the white spot above and the width and pattern of the white fascia 

 beneath find sufficient characters to separate it. 



Genus DRUPADIA (antca, p. 236). 

 1. Drupadia moorei {anka, p. 236). (Tab. XLIV., fig. 11, i'«/-.) 



A very small female variety of this species is here figured, and, as previously stated 

 {anka, p. 237), the species varies very much in size ; this is, however, the smallest female 

 specimen examined, measuring in expanse only 20 millim. It is a Malaccan specimen, and is 

 in the collection of Dr. Staudinger. 



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Genus TAJURIA {antca, p. 244). 

 3. Tajuria relata {antca, p. 246). 



I have since examined a Malaccan male of this species, belonging to the collection of 

 Dr. Staudinger. The wings above are cerulean-blue ; anterior wings with the costal margin 

 greyish-brown, the apex broadly dark fuscous, this colour extending to near outer angle; 



