NYMPHALID.E. NVMPHALIN.E. PROTIIOE. .97 



O.e of the most beautiful butterflies in tbe world, F. cal.^>ua, occuvs in the Mal.y 



Peninsula, Bomeoan^Lab^ 



. Pr.f^>oe cnMonfa, Hewitson. A^J""/^-f -'^'f^f ,' 'Uetr^ztn^'^^'^-jtikJ'c^^^^^^^^^ 

 1867 p. sT^fidem, id.. Distant Rhop. Malay., p. no ". ^. P :^ ':;■ ' ^f;^^ M^l^^.ca, Borneo Labuan. 



Margin of this blackish colouration commences narrowly at ba.e ;/ -^'-;„j;,,,/„,,,„,e near "s base extends 



crosVes the cell a little beyond the "^'d',''^' /^f, '™ j "f , ervules, after which it is agam directed '"wardly 

 t^o near the outer margin betsveen the second and fii St med an ervm ^^ ^^^^ sulphureous spots, 



and is concavely sinuated to near apex of mne. margm ^"/'f [l^^^Xo.tal nervules, the third above and the 

 fhe firs^near costa, the second between the f°"'^''^, f^V'^.e "pale api^^ a very small bright 



fourth beneath the u^perdiscoidal nervule ; a ^^^^^^^^ °^^^l,^'^t,y%^\^ bluish, with, a broad shining 

 spot on the second median nervule [-"-^--^.f^^^d^'^^-.^Jlf^r^^^ angle; two l-"; P .^J^/^^f^'^^ 



immediately beyond cell is l^^l-l^-^^ltJ^^:^,^^^^'^^^^^ ^^^ t^^S. ^'- f''^'^"-"^ \!Tth' a^la^".! 

 nervure; a triple series of much broken and irreguariasci^, towards inner margin, with a large 



second median nervule the colour is ^"l.Pl\"'^:y'=,"T'-„Xhuf and shadings, with the followmg fuscous sp 



irre<^ular fuscous spot near outer angle. H,,uhvzns "/^f '";',' ^r^pex of prscos al nervure ; a short broad curved 



third median nervules; a conical spot^^^''^^^^" 'fthHnmVnal margin is a broad fascia; the apical area of 

 beforeThe submedian nervure, fr°-/vh,ch to edge of abdominal margm^ ^.^^ ^^ '"''"'''"f.-'n^ 



wings, which is preceded by .a . transverse pale tascia is u ^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^ sulphureous, \Mth its 



much-waved and somewhat d.sjomted ^^^ „^^ ''i^"^Xte appe^^ and a small red spot near anal angle 



extreme border fuscous a large fuscous P^^^^^ °"i^^^^^™Kon^^ with wings; k^s brownish tib.s and 



the other markings as in the male. ,,,„. n female of this "glorious butterfly' in the Indian Museum, 



which w'as also the locality of the type specimen Hewitson in its greater size, and in 



• "The specimen from Malacca differs fom that l.guea^ y underside the markmgs are slightly 



having the upperside of the h.ndwuig more suffused wiA greenish on.^^ ^^^ ^.^^^^ ^^^ narrower, darker 



different, the basal red bands being broader the meciiai ua ^ lunulate line more irregular and 



and rather more irregular, the submarginal green band duUer and Uie^ ^ .^ Hewitson's figure, which was 



not so deeply .margined with ^ack the la ge b^^k ^^200!. Soc. Lond., 1867, p. 874). 

 drawn from an imperfect specimen. (JJuUer, 1. c. m rryu. 



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