LLOYD S NATURAL HISTORY. 



bachmajiii\ but with the tawny portion of the fore-wings broken 



up, more or less distinctly, into three spots. 



The various species of the Austro-Malayan group inhabit 

 several of the Moluccan and Papuan islands, and extend to 

 the Philippines, though probably not to any other part of the 

 Indo-Malayan region, the Indian species of Libyihea more 

 resembling the group of Z. celtis. The Austro-Malayan 

 species are much larger than the others, expanding upwards 

 of two inches. In the male the apex of the fore-wings is 

 obtusely rounded, hardly lobate, the hind-margin being slightly 

 oblique, and nearly straight, or slightly concave, between the 

 apex and the anal angle. In the female there is a slight apical 

 lobe, truncated, but not concave ; the hind-margin beneath is 

 more strongly concave than in the male. The hind-wings are 

 rounded, but hardly dentated or angulated, except that they 

 are somewhat produced at the anal angle in the female. The 

 palpi are much shorter and more hairy than in the more 

 typical species of the genus. The colour, too, differs con- 

 siderably; the males are brown above, with more or less of 

 the base and centre of the wings filled up with violet-blue, 

 more or less cut by the nervures. Sometimes there are some 

 whitish spots on the fore-wings, and a reddish stripe on the 

 hind-wings. The females are brown with fulvous markings, 

 and sometimes with white spots on the fore-wings and a fulvous 

 bar on the hind-wings ; but these markings are all at or beyond 

 the end of the cell, the basal portion of the fore-wings being 

 always brown. 



FAMILY III. LEMONIID^. 



Egg. — "Broader than high, tiarate or oblately spheroidal, more 

 or less deeply and densely reticulate, with converging septa 



