NEW TNDO-MALAYAN BUTTERFLIES. 339 



Description: Male, Upperside, to^/izym^rs black, glossed in certain 

 lights over the black area with rich purple. Cilia black. Forewing 

 with a large triangular coppery-red discal area, anteriorly bounded 

 by the median nervure and third median nervule, posteriorly by the 

 submedian nervure_, its outer edge irregular, well removed from 

 the outer margin. Hindwing with all except the costa broadly, the 

 base, the abdominal margin broadly, and the outer margin narrowly 

 coppery-red, the veins crossing the red area being black ; a7ial lole 

 coppery-red ; tail black, tipped with white. Underside, both wings 

 fawn-colour with a somewhat silvery sheen, especially on the 

 hindwing ; the disco -cellular nervules marked on both sides by a 

 fine white line ; a narrow outer-discal catenulated band composed of 

 oval spots a little darker than the ground-colour, outwardly defined 

 with white, the portion of the band on the forewing nearly straight, 

 anteriorly ending on the upper discoidal nervule, posteriorly on the 

 submedian nervure ; on the hindwing the band is very irregular 

 and broken, posteriorly recurved and terminating on the abdominal 

 margin. Hindxoing with a large round black spot near the outer 

 margin in the first median interspace, interiorly broadly surrounded 

 by orange colour ; anal lobe black ; a very fine black anteciliary 

 thread, bounded on each side by an equally fine white thread. Antennce 

 black, beneath towards the club white, and slightly mai-ked with 

 whitish at the joints for a short distance posterior to the white 

 portion, the remains of obsolescent annulations. Head hlixck; the 

 face and a line round the eyes white. Tal'pi white below, black 

 above, the third joint entirely black. Thorax above black, beneath 

 white. Abdomen anteriorly black, posteriorly coppery-red above, 

 beneath pale ochreous. 



Nearest to T). epijarhas, Moore, from which it differs on the 

 upperside of the forewing in having that portion of the coppery-red 

 area in the interno-median interspace posteriorly cut away ; on the 

 hindwing in having a well defined outer black margin, in D. epijarbas 

 the black margin is reduced to a mere thread ; the anal lobe also is 

 entirely red — in D. epijarbas it is ochreous, bearing a black spot in 

 the middle, this latter marked outwardly with some metallic turquoise- 

 blue scales; on the underside the ground-colour is different, being 

 hair-brown in D. epijarbas, and fawn-colour strongly washed with 



