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RHOPALOCEIU MA LA YA NA . 



nervule ; beneath the median ncrvule the white fascia ia inwardly and irregularly bordered with fuscouB. 

 On posterior wings the chocolate fascia is broadest on costal margin, strongly angulated and narrowed 

 nluml diseoidai nervule, outwardly angulated and rounded at bane of first median nerval©, and terminating 

 at anal angle between the third median nervnle and Bubmedian nervure where it is narrowest; it is 

 outwardly margined with white for its upper half ; the inner area is pale obscure ochraceous, with three 

 iviMish HpolH, hvu in-i-gulm- iiml linear situated abruv and ln-m-ath Ct-11. and on>: small and rmiuded in and 

 near base of cell ; outer area reddish ochraceous, witli two ocellated spots, the upper one mottled with 

 reddish :md with a white centre and black margin Httuatti bvtween the subcostal nervules, the lower and 

 larger out* with a large black spot inwardly bordered with white near its inner margin ; outer margin black 

 inwardly preceded with pale ochraceous; this spot is situated between the second and third median 

 uervuli-H ; ami a small linear marginal black spot between the third median nervnle and the submodian 

 nevvure. 



Male with two large basal tufts of hair on upper surface of lower wings, the smaller near eosta, the 

 larger at base of cell. 



Female, Borne what larger than the male ; apical angle of anterior wings tinged with dark bluish, 

 beneath paler, brighter and more violaceous. 

 Exp. wings, J H I millim.; ? 114 millim. 



Hab. — Tenasserim ; Thoungyeen Valley, foot of Donat Range (Bingham, Brit, Mus,) — Malay 

 Peninsula; Malacca (Pinwill, Brit. Mus. p and coll. Hewits.). 



The iriah 1 ^pt'.eimen in the British Museum is here figured, and was captured iu Malacca; 

 the female to which reference is made was collected by Capt. Bingham in Tenasserim. The 

 first is somewhat worn, and it is possible that in fresh specimens the apical area of the upper 

 surface of the anterior wing is bluish, as described in the female specimen. 



Prof. Westwood, when he described his T. dim, apparently possessed the sexes of two 

 species, and as he figured the female of the Born can species, which is distinct, it was necessary 

 to rename the Malaccau male* 



Genus CLE ROME. 



Cterotn?, Wertwond, Gen. Diuni. Lep. \>, J»88 (1851 >; Trims. Ent. Ko<>. s.-r. '2. vub iv. |>. LSli ilHCSi. 



Anterior wings suhtriangular or subovate ; costal margin very much arched, the apex rounded ; outer 

 margin more or less convex ; in the male the inner margin slightly dilated at base. First subcostal nervule 

 emitted a little before end of erll, mu\ terminating beyond apex of costal nervule; second, third, and fourth 

 subcostal nervules emitted somewhat close together, the second before the apex of the first ; fourth and fifth 

 witli a common origin. Lower disco-cellular nervule very long and obliquely sinuate. Discoidai nervule b 

 distinctly separated at their origin. First median nervule not prominently arched or angulated at base. 

 Posterior wings ovate ; disk of costal margin nearly straight ; outer margin and anal angle rounded. 

 Discoidal nervule (the base of which is homologous to an upper disco-cellular nervnle) emitted close to the 

 bifurcation of the subcostal nervules. Discoidai cell witb the apex quite unclosed. 



The geographical area of Chrome pertains to that of the previously enumerated Malayan 

 genera of Norphiua* From Continental India in the west it extends eastwards through 

 Tenasserim, the Malay Peninsula, a little beyond the confines of the Indo-Malayan portion of 

 the Archipelago, and as far north as China. 



