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RHOPALOCEBA MALAYAXA. 



distinctly fuscous; anterior wings with a small suhapieal ocellus; posterior wings with live "ocelli," the 

 third ana fourth smallest ami tin- fifth largest; all of these arc black, surrounded with fulvous, the outer 

 margin of which is fuscous, and with very small white pupils. Body beneath ochraceous. 

 Exp. wings, 3ia in. 



Hah. — Malay Peninsula ; Malacca. — Ayerpunas icoll, Huberts). 



T have followed Mr. Butler in considering his t '. hum it is its Imt a local form or rttr. of 

 ('. enpt gehioides, TPelih, and Mr. Kirby* considers it Imt n synonym of that species. Folder's 

 typical ( . Evptyckioide8 was from Borneo, and Bornean specimens are contained in the British 

 Museum. It bus also been recently recorded from Sumatra. I 



Genus ElilTES. 

 Si'tyrm, snbg. EHuk, AVestwood, Gem Diurn. Lep. p. B112 (1851 1. 



Anterior wings somewhat elongate and narrow, with the- cost a arched and slightly convex at its apex, 

 ilm apex rounded; outer margin nearly straight, or very slightly waved inwardly about middle: inner 

 margin nearly straight; costal nervure very strongly dilated at base; first and second subcostal nervules 

 emitted before the end of cell; upper diBeo-cellular nervule very short, directed a little outwardly at base, 

 and then somewhat concavelv in its greater length to apex; lower disco-cillular nearly straight, and very 

 slightly directed either outwardly or inwardly. Posterior wings irregularly subovate, with the outer margin 

 waved and produced into an obtuse angle or tail near first median nervule ; nervules well separated at their 

 origin; disco -cellular nervules about or almost subecpial in length, the upper one concave, the lower one 

 almost straight. Eyes prominent and naked. Palpi clothed beneath with fine long semi-erect hairs, 

 somewhat separated and placed in tufts. AnUnme slender, the apical portion slightly and gradually 

 thickened. 



Four speciea represent our present knowledge of this genus, and its distribution is limited. 

 We have no record of its having been discovered in Continental India ; one species is apparently 

 con tincd to the Malay Peninsula, extending, however, as far north as Upper Tenasserim ; two 

 have been received from Borneo, and another is found in Java, 



L E rites angularis. (Tab. V,. tig. 3.) 



f'.'ritrK awfufuris, Moore, Proc. Zool. -Soc. IH7.S. p. H'2"k 



Male. Wings above semi hyaline, pale smoky ochraceous, the basal halves mottled with narrow, 

 darker stride. Anterior wings crossed by two dark oblique fusciie, the lirst of which is nearly straight and 

 passes frotn costal nervure through apical angle of cell to about middle of submedian nervure ; the second 

 commences about the bases of fourth and tilth subcostal nervules, touches cell at its lower apex, and is 

 then distinctly bent inwardly and terminates on submedian nerrure; three very obscure subapical 

 ocellated spots, divided by the discoidal nervules, with extremely faint and minute white centreB, 

 margined outwardly with ochraceous, and with the extreme margin pale fuscous ; a very large ocellated 

 spot situated on second and third median nervules, with a whitish centre and ochraceous margin, which is 

 widest outwardly, anil there and above also margined with fuscous; and with two waved fuscous marginal 

 bin s, the inner one becoming somewhat obsolete towards posterior angle; the marginal fringe also fuscous. 

 Posterior wings crossed by two very anguluted dull ochraceous fascia 1 , of which the margins are somewhat 

 fuscous ; the inner commencing at costa in a line with the corresponding one of anterior wing, curved and 



I Cat, Diw-n. Lep. p. 45, UW71), f Smith, in Bock, 1 Hunt M imn rs uf JJonieu." Append. V. 



