UHOPALOCEBA MA LA YA .V. i . 



little beyond apex of eel] dark caataneona, remainder much paler and thickly m-orated wit)) the pale strigffl, 

 and with two or three small hut distinct dark subinaryinal spots situate between the median nervules ; 

 a somewhat largo pale stramineous spot, near costa, plaml between tin subcostal nervules. Jimly ami legs 

 more or less eoncolorous with wings. 



Fomale. Wings above- obscure bluish brown, as in tin* specimen fi«»iiri?tl, or with brighter indigo 

 shadings, as in other specimens. Anterior wings crossed by a broad snbapical white fascia, commencing 

 at costa ami terminating about second median nervule. Posterior wings slightly paler on disk. Wings 

 beneath generally marked an in male, but with the ground colour much darker (this is somewhat variable, 

 being little paler than above, as in the specimen figured, or more shaded with castaneous, as in other 

 specimens), and with the snbapical whitish fascia of anterior wings above, more diffused towards apex 

 beneath. The pale subcostal spot on the under surface of posterior wings of the mule is generally absent 

 in the female, though present in the typical female form of the species contained in the British Museum. 



Exp, wings, tf 05 to 08 milium ; ? 70 miilim. 



Hab. — Malay Peninsula ; Province Wellestey (colls, Dist & Sauer) ; Malacca (Brit. Mus.}— Singapore 

 (coll. He wits.). 



Tht! male form here described and figured (Tab. VIL, fig. 6) was described by Mr* Hewitson 

 under the name of M*mekida t whilst the female form (Tab. VI., fig. 11) is the typical M \ penalty a 

 of Prof. We st wood. Mr. Hewitson appended to his description of M. mihida the remark, This 

 and M. f manga are very probably the sexes of one species/' The form, however, which he 

 figured as M. penamja * was a closely allied but distinct Suniatran race, which Mr* Wallace has 

 very properly separated under a distinctive name.f 



The two forms, however, ate sufficiently similar to show that Hewitson exhibited acumen 

 iu making that remark. Having found all the specimens I have examined to exhibit sexual 

 constancy with the different coloration, and as the underside of the two forms are so very 

 similar, [ I have felt constrained to consider the descriptions of both West wood and Hewitson 

 as referring to the sexes of one species, and Westwood's name has therefore priority. 



This race or species appears to be quite confined to the Malay Peninsula. A recent writer § 

 has included it hi a list of Suniatran butterflies, but ail the Suniatran specimens which I have 

 sewn iu collections represent the bL mmatruiut, Wall. 



B. Vpper ilhcH'CeUubir iwrruh: ttf ptusterivr tcirtfjit oldiqiidif directed uuiteunUtf. 



(I. Elymnias casiphone. (Tnb. VI. , lig. 10 ?*) 



i hjinrtia* &mphoiu\ Httbncr, Summl. ex. Schmett. iii. (lul(t— 1K24 » : Wall.. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1800. p. 825, n. 12 



ButL, Trims. Eut. Hoc. 1870, p. 488; Proc. Zoot Soc, 1871, p, 522, u. U. 

 Mr/itniti* atnijihime, Doubl. & Wostw., Geo. Diuru. Lep. p. 404, n, 8 r 1851 ^ 



Male. Wings above pale chocolate-brown. Anterior wings with the apical area much suffused with 

 violaceous and with the following pale greyish macular markings ; a number of irregularly -sized ami 

 shaped spots on coBtal area, gradually increasing in size from base ; a rounded spot just beyond end of 

 ceil; two discal spots divided by the second median nervule, and a snbmarginal series of sht spots, divide! 



* Exot. Butt. iii. Melanitis, t. 1, f. 1. 4 (184$8|. f Trans. Eut. Soc 1869, p. 825, u. 10. 



] The ftiualii example of I?^pena-nga t here figured, is probably that frf a gomewbftt faded specimen* as the uiu\< v 

 surface <>f the wings is neutrally ■ *t" n warmer tint, ami more contain mils in hue, ami similar in markings with the 

 rori'4^p'»rnltnj; surf net' uf tin- w\n^ iu male specimens. 



§ Smith in Bock., * Head Hunters of Borneo,* Append. V, 



