314 NYMPHALID^. 



MORPHINE. 



CLEROME. 



Museum, about 275 inches in expanse, does not differ from Javanese individuals in the same 

 collection ; whilst specimens from India and Sylhet, in the same collection, and of the same size, 

 have the npperside richer and redder fulvous than the Java specimens, and on the underside 

 the middle striga is more distinct, and much more angulated, and the series of white dots 

 small." (IVt'st'cUooJ, 1. c.) 



Mr. Distant does not give C. arcesilaiis in his " Rhopalocera IMalayana," but there i3 a 

 female specimen in the Indian Museum, Calcutta, acquired from the old India Museum, London, 

 from Singapore, and NYestwood mentions (ante) a specimen in the British Museum from the same 

 locality. We have specimens from Sikkim from the collection of the late L. Mandelli ; from 

 the Donat range in Upper Tenasserim taken by Captain C. Bingham in January, and others 

 taken by him in the Thoungyeen forests in March and December. All these specimens are 

 males and are very constant. Our female specimen from Singapore differs from the male 

 in being a very little larger, and the inner margin of the forewing straight, and no tuft of 

 hair on the upperside of the hindwing ; it differs in tone of colouration from Indian examples 

 as mentioned by Westwood. The Javan specimen in the India Museum is identical with Indian 

 ones on the underside, but on the upperside the forewing especially is a darker fulvous. 

 Limborg also met with this species above Ahsown in Upper Tenasserim in the cold weather. 



An allied species has been recorded from Malacca.* It differs from C. aiCL-silaus in being 

 smaller, the upperside ferruginous rather than fulvous, and with an ocellus on the hindwing. 

 The underside is also ferruginous, the fifth lower spot on the forewing is developed into an 

 ocellus, as also are the first and fifth on the hindwing. 



296. Olerom© assama, West wood. 



C. assama.. %yestwood, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., new series, vd. iv, p. 184 (1S56). 



• C7^^t7«;(;^ma7/>, Butler, Ann. and Mag. of Nat Hist., third series, vol x.\, p 401, pi viii, fig. 7 (1867), 

 male; id., Distant, Khop. Malay., p. 81, pi. viii, fig. i (18S2), male. Habitat: Malacca, Singapore, Borneo. 

 ExpANSR : yi/a/(r, 2'3 inches. Description: " Malr : Ui'I-bksidr, both ivings brownish ochraceous. Hind- 

 luing with a somewhat faint discal occUated spot, situated between the second .and first medi.an nervules. 

 Undrrsidb somewhat paler, and crossed by two waved narrow fuscous fascia ; the first passing through the 

 middle of both cells, and the second commencing about the costal margin of the forewing, passing beyond the 

 cellular apices and terminating near the middle of the abdominal margin of the hindwing ; a submarginal and 

 strongly sinuated narrow fuscous fascia to both winiis. Between the middle and submarginal fascia; are placed 

 the following spots : on the forewing a series of four small whitish spots placed between the nervules, the first 

 above the upper discoidal nervule, and the fourth beneath the first median nervule, followed between the second 

 and first median nervules by an ocell.ited spot, black, with a pale centre and ochraceous and black margins. 

 Hiiuhving with an ocellated spot between the subcostal nervules, followed by three whitish soots between the 

 nervules, and an ocellated spot between the second and first median nervules Body and legs more or less 

 concolorous with the wnigs. 1 have not seen the female of this species. It is one of the smallest species 

 of ihe genus, and appears to be seldom found by collectors." (Distant, 1. c.> 



