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Outer margin of labial palp much more rounded than in 
. that species. 
This species is entirely distinct from O. dyak although 
very similar at first sight. It is larger and has quite a differ- 
ently shaped discoidal triangle, the anal loop contains many 
more cells; and the shape of the labial palp is different. 
This specimen here described does not altogether agree 
with the description of O. splendidus given by de Selgs, as in 
the colouring of the wings. 
- Sarawak. 
An Account of De Siqueira’s Voyage to Malacca. 
By W. George Maxwell. 
The first arrival of the Portuguese in the Far East was, 
as is well known, in A. D. 1508 when Diogo Lopez de Siqueira 
visited Malacca on a voyage of discovery. The failure of the 
enterprise is recorded in the Commentaries of Afonso Dalbo- 
‘querque. The King of Malacca set a trap to arrest de 
Siqueira and his companions at a banquet on shore, intending 
then to seize the fleet. The plot was however frustrated by 
a Javanese woman who had a lover amongst the Portuguese: 
sailors, and who, hearing of the intended treachery, swam off 
by night to the fleet and warned the Portuguese. When the 
plot was discovered, the King of Malacca seized Ruy de 
Aranjo, the Portuguese factor and some twenty Portuguese 
who were with him on shore collecting cargo, and threw them 
into prison. De Siqueira was unable to effect their release, 
and sailed away back to Portugal. . 
In a footnote in the Hakluyt Society’s translation of the: 
Commentaries of Afonso Dalboquerque I found a reference to 
a manuscript in the British Museum giving two brief accounts. 
of de Siqueira’s disastrous voyage to Malacca. 
RR: A. Soc., No, 57, 1910, 
