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nervule aborted, leaving the cell widely open. Median nervuleB widely separated, the first prominently 

 rounded at base ; submedian nervin e nearly straight. Posterior wings elongate and subtriangular, the 

 costal and outer margins convex; anal angle produced in narrow eaudate elongation, which is traversed by 

 the Bubmedian nervure ; abdominal margins convex and contiguous near base, and from thence becoming 

 concavely divergent to anal angles. Costal nervure arched and extending to apex; precostal nervure 

 obliquely rounded and curved outwardly towards apex; diseoidal nevvnlcs well separated at their origin ; 

 diseoidal cell with the apex quite unclosed, first median nervule arched and rounded nt a short distance 

 from base. Body short, robust; palpi large and porrect, raised above the upper margin of the head, 

 gradually narrowed to an obtuse point at apices, flattened beneath and covered with adpressed hairs, and 

 clothed above (excluding apices) with long Kemi-eroct and well-separated hairs. 



About twelve or thirteen species are sometimes included in this genus ; but of these, two 

 are probably not strictly congeneric, as the apical angles of the anterior wings are acute. 

 These two species also belong to the Ethiopian region, one being found in West Africa, and 

 the other in Madagascar. The remaining and more typical species inhabit an area extending 

 from India to Australia, and it is in the Papuan and hiriile regions that they mostly abound, 

 where, according to present knowledge, the number of species is rather more than double what 

 is found in the Indo-Malayan iv^iuii. Tin* ^ mis is closely allied to K<dUma y the species of 

 which are commonly known as " leaf- butterflies," from the strikingly foliaceous appearance 

 of the under side of the wings, and whose habitat is almost exclusively the In do -Mai ay an region. 

 Doteschallia thus appears as the extreme eastern representative oi Kali ami t a genus which most 

 probably inhabits the Peninsula, it being already recorded from Tenaseerim* 



The larva and pupa of the Ceylon species is figured in Moore's * Lep. Ceylon,' from 

 drawings made by the Bros, de Alwis, aad as described is a long, somewhat slender, purple- 

 black, with a dorsal and lateral series of short delicate branched blue spines" ami 11 a central 

 row of white spots/' It is stated in Ceylon to feed on " Acanthads." * The transformations 

 of D. bisaitide in Java have also been described by Piepers. t 



One species only is at present known in the Malay Peninsula. 



1. Doleschallia pratipa. (Tab. XL, tig. 8 J; Tab. IX., % 6 S .) 



/WwAa/ou rratij,ft, Folder, Wien. Eut. Mem. iv. p.iWy, u.litl (1B«0); Kcisc Nov.Lep. hi. p.JOU, u.610 (l»(iG); 

 Moore, Pioc. Zool. Boc. 1877, p. 584 J ibid. 1878, p. 826 ; Butl, Trans. Linn. Soc. *er. 2, Zoot vol. i, 

 p. Tj^i, n. 1 (1877 1. 



Male. Apical angle of the anterior wings prominently falcate* Anterior wings reddish ochraceons ; 

 apical angle, outer margin t narrowing to posterior angle), and an inv^uhrly shaped and sized oblique 

 fascia commencing near costal nervure, crossing end of cell and amalgamating with outer margin between 

 the lower subcostal and first median nervules, very dark fuscous. Posterior wings reddish ochraceous, 

 with two distinct aubrnargiual fuscous rounded spots, situate one above the diseoidal nervule and one 

 between the second and third median iiervmYs, and a very pair fuscous ami moderately broad marginal 

 fascia, with the inner border strongly waved and the outer horder ochraceous, preceded by a black 

 line. Wings beneath dull ochraceous, strongly BinTused with olivaceous ; anterior wings with two 

 waved and sinuated transverse bright white fusciie crossing cell, and a smaller and more obscure 

 irregular spot beneath cell at base of third median nervule; posterior wings with three bright 



* Lep. CeyL i. p. 89. \ Tijd*clir, Ent. xix. |>. 151*2 <1H7«). 



