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and terminating on abdominal margin. Whigs hem-nth pule cutaneous ; both wings cm.ssed 1a- an almost 

 straight subraarginal dark castaneous fascia, bordered outwardly witb greyish. Anterior wings witb a pale 

 waved fascia crossing cell near its centre; a narrow oblique greyish fascia beyond cell, commencing near 

 costal nervurc, aiul terminating at first median nervule, beyond which it is continued and indicated by a 

 narrow dark line only ; between these pale fasciae the colour is somewhat darker, and in thus continued in 

 a waved and narrower form ou posterior wings, where it terminates in a fault and indistinct manner about 

 centre of abdominal margin. Posterior wings with two oeellated spots on inner side of submarginal fascia; 

 these spots arc inwardly margined witb white, ami are situate one between the subcostal nervules, and one 

 between the second and third median nervules; apical angle with a fuscous spot, bordered on each side 

 with greyish. * 



The male is provided with two tufts of long dark hairs near base of upper surface of posterior wings, 

 covering the disks of two distinct pseudo scent-glamls or pouches. 



Female. Larger than male ; wings above with distinct basal resplendent bluish reflections. Anterior 

 wings with a discal, curved, and outwardly convex series of five ochraceous spots placed between the nervules, 

 commencing between the discoidal nervules, and terminating near the third median nervule, and a straight 

 siibmurgiiial series oi" live ochraceous spots also placed between the nervules. Posterior wings with a 

 waved fuscous marginal fascia. Wings beneath slightly paler Mian in male, the ubliipu-.- greyish fascia 

 beyond cell of anterior wings much more distinct, broader, and continuous, the straight submarginal 

 fascia to both wings outwardly much more widely bordered with greyish ; ocellated spots larger and anal 

 angle less produced than in male. 



Exp. wings, J yU millim. ; ? 94 to i>8 millim. 



Hah.— Malay Peninsula; Province Wellcsley tcolls. InVt. and Saber) ; Malacca (Brit. Mus.)— Borneo 

 (coll, Godm. & Salv.i 



The males of this species vary in the amount of melanism. In some specimens, as the one 

 figured, the suhniarghial series of pale spots above; are scarcely visible. 



3. Thaumantis pseudaliris. (Tab. V1TI., fig. 3 J .) 



Tlutttwmth tntntiaUris, Butler, Jouni. Liim. Soc. Zool. vol. xiH. p. 115 11877); Trans. Linn. Soc- aer. 2, 



Zool, vol. i. p. 588, n. 2, t. lxviii. fig. 1 (1877). 

 Thaumantis aliris, S , Westw. Trans. Ent. Soc. ser. 2, vol. iv. p. 176 U8GB).f 



Male. Anterior wings above fuscous-brown, witb the base ferruginous, crossed by a pale lemon- 

 coloured transverse undulating fascia, which, commencing at costa above apex of cell, is then slightly 

 curved outwardly, passing a little beyond cell, is gradually narrowed between second and third median 

 nervules, and terminates in a small spot beneath the last-named nervule ; two large subapical white spots, 

 separated by the upper discoidal nervule. Posterior wings fuscous- brown, with the base ferruginous ; the 

 apical half from a little beyond the median nervule, and a large subqnadrate apical- angular- spot ochraceous, 

 more or less tinged with orange-red. Wings beneath crossed by a broad, irregular, and deeply sinuated 

 chocolate fascia; on anterior wings this fascia is abbreviated about median nervule, and is very narrow at 

 costal margin, where it is supplanted by the commencement of a transverse waved white fascia crossing 

 wing at end of cell and terminating on outer margin at apes of third median nervule ; on the inner side of 

 the chocolate fascia the colour is obscure ochraceous, with two irregular reddish spots in cell and a smaller 

 one above it; beyond the white fascia the colour is reddish ochraceous, with a large discal obscure 

 vidaccous patch, bordered outwards witb fuscous, and containing an outer white spot above upper discoidal 



* These anal-angular markings have been unfortunately ojuitleu fnnu LIk- figure* 



f Mr. Butler Lu renaming the mule of Wt-stwooils sptcii-fi Iihh lutsikntully given a wroug referencii lo tlmt author's 

 description. 



