IiriOPALOCERA MALA VAX A. 



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flying in the morning twilight." As observed id North -Western India by Cant. Lang, it wm 

 found on grassy slopes in the shade or near hedges, " constantly pitching tinder bushes or at 

 roots of trees, and lying perdue" \ 



Genus CCELITES. 



t tifites, Westwood, Gen. Dimn. hep. p. 367 (1851 f. 



Anterior wings long and Buhtriangular, with the costa more or less notched at base unci slightly 

 arched, the apex depressed and rounded; outer margin slightly emargmate and scalloped, sometimes 

 somewhat concave about centre ; inner margin but very slightly dilated and nearly straight ; costal uervure 

 strongly dihtted at base ; first and Becoud subcostal nervulea emitted before the end of cell ; upper disco- 

 cellular nervuie very much shorter than the lowe r one, which is more or less concave. Posterior wings 

 more or less ovate, with the outer margin very slightly waved (as in ( T . ft otitis) or distinctly waved and 

 obtusely anfmlated or tailed near first median nervuie (as in C. mptiichimden) ; first and second median 

 nervnles emitted close together about apex of cell : upper disco -cellular nervuie short and curved ; lower 

 one longest and more or less oblique. Eyes nuked. Antenna? very slender, the apical portion gradually 

 and slightly thickened. 



This is a genus of small extent, and apparently confined to Continental India and the true 

 Malayan Region. Five species have been described, but it is possible, when due allowance has 

 been made for local variation, that not more than three are really known to Science at the 

 present time- 



I have neither seen nor received any species of t kvliua myself from the Malay Peninsula, 

 but in 1867 Mr. Butler described and figured a specimen, which was collected in Malacca by 

 Lieut. Roberts. As the type is in the collection of that gentleman, who, I am informed, is 

 now absent from England, I have simply reproduced Butler's figures and description here. 



1. Coelites euptychtoides, var. humilis. (Fi^. 15.) 



CucUtn ritftftfrhhtittes, Feliler, Heine Noy, Lep, iii. p. 49U, n. 865 (ISfift). 



Ctriitiv Hrtwiti*. Ihitler. Ann. Nut. Hiat. ser. H r vol. xx. p. iOtt. l h, f, s ; t, Ji, f, 2 iltMJT), 



<\,iittx tH} f tyrftii>ui™, var. humility Bull., Cut. Satyr, ji« 11*2. u. i ^ltJOM}, 



Female. Wings above fuscous; external area 

 of the anterior wings somewhat more objure, of the 

 posterior wings paler; both wings with an obseure 

 marginal Hue. Posterior wings with a subuual and 

 very indistinct blind *' ocellus," margined wilh pale 

 oehraceous ; internal margin paler ; body above luw- 

 cons ; anentue ferruginous. 



Win»s beneath pnl'-r and <H-hraceouB; a medial 

 fascia and another submarginal one on which the 

 "ocelli" are generally distributed, violaceous ; a diseal 

 clouded fascia, fuscous; two irregular marginal lines 



* Tijd. Etit. xim. pji. xviii. in xju\., uml Eu^. Traiiij. by Kirby, ■ titit"ttiologtet,' x. p. '271. 

 f Ent. Mo. Mag. vol. i. p. 181. 



' Tlio original diagnosis is in Latin, but fur the auke of uniformity I Lave given a more or less literal translation 

 of the same. 



Ji hk 30, 188*2. n 



