POMPELON. 



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Genus POMPELON. 

 Pompelon, Wlh. Cat. ii, p. 413 (1854). 



Type, P. marginata, H.-S., from Java. 



Range. Burma ; Penang ; Java ; Celebes. 



Mid and hind tibiae with minute terminal pairs of spurs. 

 "Wings broad, with the apex of the fore wing very much rounded. 

 Vein 6 from below angle of cell, 7, 8, and 9 stalked; vein 11 of 

 the fore wing anastomosing with 12. 



This genus mimics the blue Euploeas. 



580. Pompelon valentula, Sivinli. P. Z. S. 1889, p. 401. 



$ . Head, thorax, and abdomen black-brown ; pectus and abdo- 

 men below crimson, the latter with a pair of lateral segmental 

 spots. "Wings black-brown ; fore wing with the costa and apex 

 narrowly metallic blue : hind wing with a large metallic-blue apical 

 patch ; the outer margin greyish, which last is the only character 

 in which it differs from marginata, Gruer., from Penang. Under- 

 side of fore wing with a large yellow spot in the upper end of the 

 cell, and the veins enclosing the cell streaked with metallic blue, 



Hab. Burma. Exp. 78 millim. 



581. Pompelon subcyanea, Swinh. Cat. Bet. Mus. Oxon. p. 72. 



Differs from valentula in the collar being blue, the apical blue 

 patch to the fore wing being much larger, and extending down the 



Fig. 179. — Pompelon subcyanea, tf. \. 



outer margin nearly to the outer angle, and inwards along all the 

 nervules and median nervure ; the costal blue streak wider. Hind 

 wing without the grey margin. Underside with the veins and 

 apices of both wings more or less suffused with blue. 



Hab. Eastern Pegu, 1000 feet, April ; Singapore ; Borneo. 

 Exp. s 66, $ 84 millim. 



