RHOPALOCEHA MALA YANA . 



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Male. Wings above fuliginous-brown ; posterior wings with a silky patch of raised scales at bases of 

 median nervules. 



Notk. — In all male specimens as yet examined from the Malay Peninsula the anterior win^s arc 

 unspotted, 1 Jiit in specimens from Continental India there are usually three iliscal rows uf pale spots 

 between tin; end of eel J and outer margin. The ground colour also varies in intensity of hue. 



Wings beneath dull ochraeeous ; basal half of both wings dark ochraceotis, remaining outer portions 

 pale ochraeeous, with three more or less waved darker fnseia:, one marginal and two sulanar^inal : posterior 

 wings with two oerllaUid spots with white centres and white and black margin*, the first situate between the 

 subcostal nerviiles, the second between the second and third median nervules (this lower serond spot is 

 absent in the specimen figured). Body and legs more or less coneolorous with wings. 



Female. Wiugs above pale chocolate-brown. Anterior wing« with the outer discal portion dark 

 chocolate-brown ; an obscure ochraeeous spot in and before end of cell, and a smaller but more distinct 

 spot of the same colour beyond end of cell \ a like spot beneath cell and between second and third median 

 nervulcs (absent in specimen figured) ; an inner discal series of six white spots placed between the nervules, 

 the largest, upper, and innermost two contiguous, and separated by the upper discoidal mrvah: ; the sixth] 

 with its posterior margin tinged with ochraeeous, is situate between the third median nervule and submedian 

 nervure ; this is outwardly followed by a series of five spots, the upper one bluish and amalgamating with 

 the second inner spot, second and third bluish, and fourth and fifth ochraeeous; and a eubmarginal row of 

 five ochraeeous spots placed between the nervules in a line with the other two series ; costal and outer 

 margins very pale brownish. 1'osterior wings with the outer discal portion dark chocolate-brown, and with 

 three discal series of ochraeeous spots placed between the nervules, the two inner series not passing the 

 third median nervule, the outer series having an indistinct spot hoynurl that uervuie ; the intermediate 

 series are more or lesB distinctly sublunate, and the outer series are inwardly margined with very dark 

 chocolate-brown ; outer margin very pale brownish. Wings beneath as in male, but paler, the basal portion 

 with a few scattered dark rounded spots near base ; a waved, continuous, narrow dark fascia crossing the 

 centres of both cells, and a dark spot at the upper disco-cellular nervuie of anterior wings j ocellated spots 

 to posterior wings smaller than in male, but varying in size. 



Long. <? 70 to 75 milling ; 9 DO to ( J8 millim. 



Bab. — Continental India ; Darjeeling (Horsf. & Moore) ; SUhet (Brit, Mus.) — Tenasserim ; near 

 Ahsown (Limborg).— Malay Peninsula ; Province Wellesley {colls. Dist. & Satter) ; Malacca (Brit. Mus.)— 

 Borneo (coll Godm. k Sal v.). 



The females of this species vary in the prominence of the apical angles of the anterior 

 wings, thus approximating towards the specimens described by Prof. Westwood as a distinct 

 species, under the name of l)isroplior<t Zal, hut which may probably pi\>\o to be merely a viiriety 

 of this species.* 



The larva is figured in Horsf. & Moore, Cat. Lop. Mus. E.L C, i. (pi. xii. fig, lo), from the 

 original drawing made by Mr. A. Grote, then of Calcutta, and is stated to feed on " Bambiisa*" 

 It apparently agrees in structure with the larva of 2>. (dindc, which is here figured, 



2. Discophora celinde. (Tab. V., iig. 10 j , 11 ? .) 

 Papitio Cduulc, Stoll, Suppl. Cram. Pap. Ex. t, 37, L 1, 1 A (1700). 



PuptiiQ Menetho, Fabr. Ent. fcyst. in. 1, p. 8S, Q. 2U0 (17418); Douov. las. Ind. t. 80, f. 1 (1800), 

 Payitio arUtufa, Fabr. Eat. Syat. ih. I, p. 86, n. 208 (1708). 



* Mr. Moore lifts u numerated Di*<:oj>horn Zai uiiu'hsj tin? I tiiiistit^rini butterflies (Froc* 5£ooh Soc. 1876, p. 82(j^i ninl 

 Mr. Kixby, in that hpidt»ptc lists* vtuh mccitm, liia ■ Cut. Diurn, Lop.' p. 64l>, also considers it distinct. 



