NYMniALID/E. MORnilN^. TIIAUMANTIS. 307 



The apices of the foicwing in the females of both species are also somewhat tiiincatcd, not 

 rounded, as in T. Jiores and ramdeo ; the male of 7\ Ituipor has the apex of the forewing 

 acute. T. lucipor, male, has the uppersidc almost entirely suffused with blue ; in the female 

 this colour is confined to the basal areas of both wings, but it has a deeply dentate submarginal 

 line, ochreous in the forewing, fuscous in the hindwing. In T. noiircddin the blue colour 

 is obsolete on the upperside in the male, but present at the base of both wings in the female, 

 uhich latter has a submarginal and discal series of five ochreous spots, the inner series bent 

 inwards anteriorly. 



291. Thaumantis psoudaliris, Butler, 



T. pscndaliris , Butler, Journ Linn. Soc. Lond., Zoology, vol. xiii, p. 115 (1876); id., Trans. Linn See. Lend., 

 Zoology, second series, vol. i, p. 538, pi Ixviii, fig. i (\?>^(,), male; Thaitmaittis aliris, Westwood, Trans. Ent. 

 Soc. Lond., new series, vol. iv. p. 176 (1856). male; Thaumnntis pseiidriliris, Distant, Rhop. Malay., p. 79, pi. 

 viii, fig. 3 (1882), male; id., Butler, Ann. and Mag. of Nat. Hist., fifth series, vol. x, p. 372 (1882). 



Habitat : Tenasserim, Malay Peninsula. 



Expanse : <? , 4^4 to 4 7 ; V . 4"5 to 5*4 inches. 



Description : ]\I.\LE : Upperside, yiwv'7OT«^' velvety blackish-brown, the outer margin 

 slightly paler, the base suffuseil with dull ferruginous ; a pale ochreous transverse fascia from the 

 costa just beyond the cell to the first median nervule and continued to near the liinder angle by 

 a coalescent spot of the same colour below the first median nervule ; two white spots near the 

 apex. Hindwing velvety blackish-brown, the base suffused with dull ferruginous ; the apex and 

 the anal third from discoidal nervule to abdominal margin brij^ht orange fulvous. Underside, 

 /&^<?Z4:^/;/^ with the basal area greyish ochreous, densely clothed with short hairs, a chestnut line 

 acro.ss the cell, within which is a large chestnut spot and a smaller one above it on the costa, the 

 pale fascia of the upperside but whiter and continuous, the space between it and the basal area 

 chestnut shading into deep brownish-black near the hinder angle, and into greyish-ochraceous 

 along the inner margin; beyond the fascia the outer margin is broadly ferruginous, inwardly 

 sharply defined by a fuscous line; the triangular space left between this border, the costa, and the 

 pale transverse fascia also ferruginous, irrorated with dusky, darkest near the fascia, palest out- 

 wardly and suffused with white at the extremity. Hindwing with the basal area greyish-ochra- 

 ceous as in the forewing, extending almost to the anal angle, and bearing a large chestnut spot 

 near the costa, a small one just below it, one near the base of the cell and a few indistinct ones 

 below ; defined outwardly by a rich chestnut band broadest at the costa, narrowing to a point 

 at the anal angle ; the inner edge even, the outer highly irregular, greatly constricted just below 

 the discoidal nervule, where and above which it is decreasingly bordered with whitish ; outer 

 half pale ferruginous bearing an indistinct dusky submarginal lunular line and two large reddish 

 ocelli ringed narrowly with black and pale ochreous, the upper one between the subcostal 

 nervules irrorated with a few white atoms in the centre, the lower one between the first and 

 second median nervules bearing a black patch at its inner end, beyond which is a whitish linear 

 mark and numerous whitish dots ; between these two ocelli are three white dots, placed one in 

 each interspace ; an elongated black spot on the margin between the first median nervule and 



on the abdominal margin. Underside, bot/i zui>igs pale castaneous ; crossed by an almost straight submarginal 

 dark castaneous fascia, bordered outwardly with greyish. Forewing with a pale waved fascia crossing the cell 

 near its centre ; a narrow oblique greyish fa.scia beyond the cell, commencing near the costal nervure, and 

 terminating at the third median nervule, beyond which it is continued and indicated by a narrow dark line only; 

 between these pale fascial the colour is somewhat darker, and is thus continued in a waved and narrower form 

 on the hindwing, where it terminates in a faint and indistinct maruier about the middle of the abdominal margin. 

 Hindiviiig with two ocellated spots on the innerside of the subma-ginal fascia ; these spots are inwardly 

 margined with white, and are situated one between the subcostal nervules, and one between the second anil 

 first median nervules ; the apical angle with a fuscous spot, bordered on each side with greyish The male 

 is provided with two tufts of long dark hairs near the base of the upperside of the hindwing, covering the <iiscs 

 of two distinct pseudo scent-glands or pouches Fkmai.b larger than the male Ui'PBRSinK, botli tuitigs with distinct 

 basal resplendent bluish retlections. Forewing with a discal, curved, and outwardly convex series of five 

 ochraceou'* spots placed between the nervules, commencing above the first discoidal neivule, and terminating 

 near the first median nervule, and a straight submarginal series of five ochraceous sjiots also placed between 

 the nervules. /////(M'/w^"- with a waved fuscous marginal fascia. Undbksidk slightly paler than in the male, 

 the oblique greyish fascia beyond the cell of the forezving much more distinct, broader, and continuous, the 

 straight submarginal fascia to botk wings outwardly much more widely bordered with greyish ; ocellated spots 

 larger, and anal angle less produced than in the male The males of this species vary in the amount of 

 melanism. In some specimens the submarginal series of pale spots on the upperside arc scarcely visible." 

 (Distant, I. c ) 



