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IffiQPALQCBMA MALA TANA, 



This fine species is somewhat intermediate between E.casipkotie and E, UucOMjma* agreeing 

 best with the last above, and with the first beneath. It appears to be a mimic of a species of 

 Eitjdua belonging to the mtdamw group, though the female still remains to be discovered. 

 It was captured in Province Weilesley by Mr. Sailer, an enthusiastic collector of the Lepidoptera 

 of the beautiful region iu which he at present resides, and after whom I have named the 

 species. 



Snbfam. NYMFHALINJJ. 



Xltiuphtitinti, Bates. Jottrii. Ent. iu p. 170 QSO-H; Moore, Lep. Ceyh i, p. 26 |1S81 k 

 X>j)t>t<h<iIiA«: ami Km-sj(dbhi\ p., Westw*, Gen. Diurn. Lep. pp. 148, 408 (1851-2}. 

 MtrphiiUr., p M Wcstw., Gen. Diurn. Lep. p. 882 (1851). 

 Mnrphiuu-, (roilin. & Sulv., Biol. Cciitr. Am. liliop. p. 113 1 1881 i. 



Discoidal cell of the posterior wing opon t the lower disco-cellular nervnle being 

 Fig. it;.— ro^t, wingr or more or less atrophied. Larva* variable in form, 



Dfrcophara tuMia. £ . 



Most authors treat the Ntfmphalintv and Morpkiwe as separate subfamilies, but though 

 I have endeavoured, by studying the views of my contemporaries, to find characters that 

 would euable me to follow that course, I can only subscribe to the dictum of the founder of 

 the XiinifihafiiKiy that the genera grouped under the Morphhm as a snbfamily "exhibit no good 

 character whereby they may be distinguished from the Symphalhws" f Most authors who have 

 followed the opposite course have also doubted the elassifieatory value of the Morphime. Prof, 

 West wood, when he diaguosed the turn. MorphiJtr,\ clearly stated that he followed the views of 

 Mr. E. Doubled ay, a course the more necessary owing to the plates illustrating the work having 

 been already inscribed with the "distinct family headings." In his very exhaustive paper, 

 "On the Oriental Species of Butterflies related to the Genus Morpho," a memoir which 

 particularly applies to this fauna, Prof. West wood has also expressed the view § that he found 

 it "next to impossible to draw any (even an artificial) line of separation " between some of the 

 genera, which are thus divided in subfamiliar estrangement, an opinion further strengthened by 

 earlier argument, || Mr. Kirhy, who enumerates and uses the subfamily Morphincc, in his 

 ' Synonymic Catalogue,* subsequently qualifies that course by stating, ** The Morphime are a 

 group of butterflies perhaps only artificially separated from the Kifmplmlintf IT and to add to 

 the perplexity he lias referred the foundation of the Morphiutr (under that name) to Mr. Butler,** 

 who has (at least where quoted) given neither diagnosis nor reason for siu h division. On the 

 other hand, however, Messrs. Godnian and Salvia, without entering into the argument of 

 classification, "think that these butterflies have associated characters of sufficient number and 

 valur to allow them to stand a separate subfamily J/r/r/^W.'* ' 1 



It is here proposed to separate the S'ifttiphalinur into two groups, principally based on the 

 characters of the palpi, 



* A species received from Silhel. f Bntta, Joum. Ent. ii. p, 177- 



{ Geu. Diurn. Lep. p. 8*2, § Trans. Ent. Soe, vol. iv* N.S. p. 169, 



|| Introil. Mad. Class. Ins, iu p, 353, IT * Entomologist/ vol. X. p. 



** Cist. Ent, I p. S. ft Biol. C<mtr. Am. Rhop. p. US. 



