NYMPIIALID.E. MORrillN.E. ENISPE. 299 



The flgiuc shows the uppersidc of both male and female, and is taken from specimens 

 Irom bibsagar in the Indian Museum, Calcutta. 



2S3. Discopliora zal, Westwcod. 



D. zal, Westwood, Gen. D. L.. vol. ii, p. 331. n. 5 (1851), note ; idem, id., Trans. Knt. .Soo. Lond new series 

 vol. IV. p. ,8S,pl. xxi,figs.-s,6 (1856), /twa/<: ; id.. Moore. Proo. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1878, p. 826 • Z> /«///<,' 

 Distant, Rhop. Malay., p. 74, pi. vii, figs. 8, male; g./onale (1882}. ' ' 



Habitat : Pegu, Tenasserim, Malay Peninsula. 



Expanse: d', 2-8 to 3-3; ?, 3-55 to 4-10 inches. 



Description : Female : " Forr.ving with the apex subfalcate. Hhnhving angidated in 

 the middle of the outer margin and at the anal angle. Uppersiue fulvous. Forrunn^ with the 

 costa pale, and with the outer half fuscous, bearing a triple series of spots; the inner series white, 

 the rest fulvous. Himhoing fulvous, with a triple series of fuscous lunules and a cloudy fuscous 

 submarginal line. Undekside whitish-yellow, with a narrow line and spots near the base 

 fuscous, an obscure not very distinct median fascia, and two small ocelli placed beyond the 

 middle." 



"This species is remarkable for the somewhat falcate form of the forewing, and the angulat- 

 ed hindwing ; the white colour also of the innermost row of spots on the forewing is charac- 

 teristic. In this wing the ground-colour is brown, the spots being pale coloured, but in the 

 hindwing the spots are so much increased in size as to constitute the ground-colour of the win" 

 reducing the separating dark parts to rows of obscure lunules. The oblique nervule which closes 

 the discoidal cell [in \\\q forciving\ is curved at its base, and marked by a dark brown spot, with 

 a dark dot beneath it. There is also a corresponding dark dot on the discoidal cell of the hind- 

 wing, which is not closed by a disco-cellular transverse nervule. The very pale buff colour of the 

 underside of the wings, with the markings nearly obsolete, is also very characteristic." 

 (Weshuood, 1. c. in Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond.) E.xpanse of Westwood's figure, 3'85 inches. 



The above description evidently refers to a female specimen, and the male has not as 

 yet been discriminated. The fulvous colour of the two outer rows of spots on the forewing 

 renders it notably distinct from the female of Z>. tullia independently of other minor differences. 

 We have a female specimen from Rangoon which answers exactly to the description of D. zal, 

 except that the basal half of the upperside is fulvous brown rather than fulvous, and bears an 

 incomplete but prominent fourth series of spots (shewn in Westwood's figure), the median series 

 is pure white, and the two upper discal spots are tinted bluish-white ; all the rest are pure 

 fulvous : and Limborg took others in Upper Tenasserim, but among all the numerous males that 

 we have received from Tenasserim none are separable from D. tullia. From Mr. Distant's 

 figure and description the females in the Malay Peninsula are all of the D. zal type, but differ- 

 ing as in the Rangoon specimen noted above only more prominently ; the basal area is more de- 

 cidedly brown, and the upper three spots of the discal series are tinted with blue ; the fourth 

 series of spots is, however, only represented by a spot in the cell of the forewing and one be- 

 yond it ; and they are clearly the D. zal of Westwood. The male of the Malayan race, as 

 described and figured by Mr. Distant, differs from D. tullia in having the upper surface entirely 

 unspotted, all three series of spots being obsolete ; and the conclusion we come to is that D. zal 

 is a well defined local race of D. tullia. 



Genus 37.— ENISPE, Westwood. 

 Enisfie, Westwood, Gen. D. L., vol. ii, p. 292 (1850) ; idem, id , p. 330 (1S51). 



Body robust, woolly. Forewing with three branches only to the subcostal nervure, 

 the second branch being obliterated, the first anastomosing with the costal nervure. 

 Hindwing with the outer margin evenly convex, not angled at the tip of the third median 

 nervule. Male without the discal patch of raised plush-like scales, but having the discoidal 

 cell and the fold below the median nervure clothed with long hairs ; otherwise not differing 

 from Discopliora. FoRELE&s in both sexes slightly longer than in Discopliora, those of the 

 FEMALE more distinctly hairy, but not nearly so hairy as in the male. Trausformatious unknown. 



