126 LEPIBOPTERA INDICA. 



also from Borneo. It is recorded from " Sandakan, N. Borneo" (Pryer and Cater, 

 N. Borneo Herald, 1894, 258). Mr. H. Grose-Smith has a female from Daat Island, 

 Labuan, and Mr. P. Crowley has both sexes from Perak, and Lawas, N. Borneo. 

 Mr. W. Doherty records it as " occurring not uncommonly at the foot of the Karen 

 Hills, E. Pegu, and was taken on the body of a dead Python. It is very fragrant in 

 both sexes" (P. Z. S. 1891, 256). Mr. T. A. Hauxwell obtained it at Tounghou, 

 Upper Tenasserim, and notes that it " flies low, and settles low down on the trunks 

 of trees, with closed wings, only two or three feet from the ground. Once frightened 

 it never returns to the same spot" (L. de Xiceville, J. Bombay N. H. 1899). 

 It is " found not rarely in Sumatra. It settles on tree trunks with its head 

 downwards " {id. J. A. S. Bengal, 1895, 439). 



Our illustrations on Plate 326 are from a male and female taken in E. Pegu. 



PROTHOE REQALIS (Plate 326, fig. 2, 2a, S). 



Prothoe regalis, Butler, Annals of Nat. Hist. 1885, pp. 53, 54, 306, pi. 8, fig. \, S • de Nice'ville, 

 Butt, of India, etc., ii. p. 296 (1886). Doherty, .Joum. Asiat. See. Bengal, 1889, p. 126. 



Imago. — Male, Upperside, " Both wings with the basal third and body olive- 

 green. Forewing crossed obliquely from middle of the costa to the third-fourth of 

 the inner margin by a broad silvery-blue belt, the exteimal edge of which is irregU' 

 larly notched and only separated by a blackish submarginal streak from three large 

 spots of the same colour upon the centre of the external border ; veins slenderly 

 black, terminating in blackish spots, two of which are placed between the above- 

 mentioned blue spots ; two white spots followed by a blackish streak upon the 

 costal part of the blue belt ; a large triangular black spot closing the cell ; apical 

 area chocolate-brown ; three subapical spots, the two upper large, placed obliquely, 

 bluish, with white centres, the submarginal bluish, small. Eindwing with the centre 

 of the wing blue-black ; apical area and external border chocolate-brown ; two 

 linear apical blue dashes and a blue line along base of the fringe. Underside. 

 Foreiving whitey-brown, slightly tinted with greenish towards the base and with 

 lilacine along the external border ; markings very similar to those in P. Franckii, 

 but the outline spots on the discoidal area filled in with dark olivaceous, with no 

 trace of an oljlique white band and with all the internervular submarginal markings 

 cruciform, Hindiuing with the basal half as in P, Franckii, excepting that the 

 discoidal spots are filled in with dark olivaceous ; external half considerably darker, 

 its inner half greyish-olivaceous, enclosing a series of oblong internervular black 

 patches, which are sinuated in front and bounded by reddish crescentic borders ; 

 jnimediately beyond these reddish crescents is a submarginal series of eight unequal 



