RHOPALOCEEA MA LA 1 VI A\ i . 



Hab. — Continental India ; Bombay (coll. Bist.) , Neilgherrieu ; Calcutta : Xepaul ; CashmnrG (co]l. 

 Mnnrr.-i. t.'cyl.in (coll. Moore). — Andaman Islands (Calcutta MnsJ — Hurmn : Mcminn in- — Tioassorim 

 (Limborgh — Malay reninsula; Penang; Province Wcllesley (coll. t>ist.) — Sumatra. — Java. — Borneo (coll. 

 Moore, Di&t., and Brit. Mus.). 



This is a very variable form beneath, but the three varieties described appear to represent 

 the specios in the Malay Peninsula. In other habitats dilferini varieties are found* 



The larva and pupa as found in Ceylou are described and figured in Moore's 1 Lopidoptera 

 of Ceylon,' from drawings made by the Bros, de Alwis. The shape is that of the larva of 

 M t ki& 9 the " head large, surmounted by two short pubescent red processes, last segment also 

 with two processes ; pale green with longitudinal rows of whitish dots; dorsal and lateral line 

 darker green ; head bluish, face striped with white and black. Pupa green, eylindri^il ; head 

 and thorax obliquely flattened." * 



Its habits in Continental India were described with those of ,1/. Uda by Opt. Lang and 

 Capt. de la Chaumette (ante p. 4*2) ; and, in the neighbourhood of Moiighyr, Mr. Lock wood tells 

 us that when "the toddymen cut the date trees,' * hundreds of this species "collect to feed upon 

 the sweet sap, in company with many yellow- banded wasps and ants/' f 



Genus LETHE. 



Li-thr, lliibner, Vers. bek. Schniett. p, 50 |lH16j ; Moore, Lep. CeyL h p. 1(5 (1881K 

 Bibb, Westw., Gen. Diurn. Lep, p. 358 (1851). 



Anb-nor win-s short and bmud, with the i-osta .-trou^ly mvln-d mid apii-illy convex, and t lie apex 

 rounded ; outer margin slightly wavtul and concave ; inner margin straight ; costal nervure dilated at base ; 

 first and second subcostal nervules emitted before the end of cell ; upper disco-cellular nervule short, 

 directed outwardly at base and then somewhat, eoncavely bent and directed outwardly along its greatest 

 length : lower disco-cellular uervulc nearly straight and directed outwardly. Posterior win^s irregularly 

 subovate, with the outer margin waved and produced into an obtuse angle- or tail near first median nervule ; 

 first and second median nervules with a common origin about apex of cell ; disco-cellular ncrvules about 

 or almost subdual in length. Kyes prominent and hairy. Palpi trlothed beneath with fine long semi-erect 

 Lairs, distinctly separated — setose. Antenna more or less inenissated at apex. 



Above forty species of this genus have been described. It is strongly represented in 

 Continental India, is not uncommon in the true Malayan Region, and is found as far north us 

 China and Japan. 



Only one species has at present been received from the Malay Peninsula, and is here alone 

 included. 



1. Lethe europa. (Tab. V,, fig. 5 3 • » 6 ? .) 



I'upifiu Kurrtfttt, Falniciii*, SysL Ent. p. 500, 11, 2J7 (1775). 



Ot&tA ttUt£itU>Ti& EurtifKij Iliibn., Wamml. etot, Scbiuett. (lSUti — 181(5). 



Lrthe Europt, Hiiba., Vcrz. belt. Schmett. p. 50, n. 584 (1816); Bull., Cat. Satyr, p. Il l, n. 2 (1868); Cat 

 Fiibr, Lepid. p. 20, 11, 2 (18G<J); Trana. Lmu. Soc, aer. 2, Zool. vol. i. p. 537, a. 1 (1877) ; Moore, 

 Proc. Zool. Soc. 1877, p. ; Woud-Masou & de Nicevillc, Jouin. Asiat. Soc. Dcngl. vol. slis. p. 290, 

 n. 6 (1880). 



Lop. Ceylon, L p. 14. 



f Nat. Hist. Sport ami Trftvtl,* p. '220. 



