1UI0PAL0CE11A MALAY AN A. 



white spots near base, one near base of costal nervure, one near base of third median nervnle, and 

 the third very obscure, in and near base of celh Anterior wings with the costal base, cellular area 

 preceding the outer white fascia, an irregular fascia near end of cell, and a small costal siihnpical patch, 

 dark olivaceous, the last preceded and followed by dull whitish ; both wings crossed by a discal obliijue 

 dark olivaceous line, commencing on costa of anterior wings between end of cell and apex, where it is waved 

 and directed outwardly and then reflexed and oblique, terminating near anal angle of posterior win^s ; 

 betweeu this line and outer margin there are on anterior wings five or six obscure white-centred spots 

 divided by the uervuIeH, and two distinct oeellated spots with white centres between the median nervules 

 and on posterior wings three distinct oeellated spots situate one on each side of the lower subcostal in-rvule, 

 and the third between the second and third median nervules (a fourth and obscure spot is sometimes 

 visible between the third median nervule and submedian nervine) ; outer margin of posterior wings 

 distinctly paler from about the lower subcostal nervule. Body and legs more or less couch Ion >us 

 with wings. 



Female. Apical anyle of the anterior win^s not prominently falcate. Besembling male, but differing 

 on anterior wings by having a large subapical yellowish patch, and by the fuscous oblique fascia being only 

 denoted by an irregular spot at end of cell, I'osU-rior wings with the marginal fascia only denoted by the 

 marginal borders as in male. Wings beneath as in male, but paler, and with the white spots much 

 more obscure. 



Exp. wings, 3 (>0 to HO millitn. ; ? (two samples), KB to 70 millim. 



Ha*.* — Tenasserim (Moore). — Malay Peninsula ; Province Wellesley (colls. Dist, and Saiier) ; 

 Malacca (Pinwill, Brit. Mus.) — Java (coll. Dist.) 



This species varies much in the colour of the wings beneath, and fa a very close ally of the 

 Javan species, IK bkaltide, Cram. From this it differs principally in the female sex, which in 

 D. Iti'saliide has the pale subapical patch and also the complete oblique subapical fuscous fascia. 



pralipa is clearly a local race of Cramer's species, and is treated here as a distinct species, 

 in consonance with the previous met hod, and on the lines already laid down in this work, t 



Genus PRECIS. 



Precis, Hubncr, Verz.bek. Schmett. p. H8 (1810) ; Fold. Neues Lop. p. 18 (1801) ; Moore, Lop. Ceyl. i. p. 39 (] SHI). 

 JutHtttia, sect, 2, Doubl. Geo. Diurn. Lep. p. 209 (18-£tf|« 



Anterior wings subtriangular, the costal margin very strongly arched and convex ; apical angle 

 obliquely truncatr and prominent, ami together with remainder of outer margin distinctly waved; beneath 

 the apical angle the outer margin is strongly sinuated and concave, after which it is convex to posterior 

 angle; inner margin more or leas concave. Costal nervure short; first and second subcostal nervules 

 emitted close toother mar end of cell ; third emith-d about lialf-way between Hid uf eell and aipex of win.u' : 

 fourth and fifth bifurcating at about one-fourth from apex. Upper disco-cellular iiervulcs anjjh'd at apex of 

 cell and concave to lower discoida! nervule ; lower disco-cellular nervule slender and indistinct, or somewhat, 

 obsolete. ]>iscnidal ni*rvii!e.s well separated at their base; first median nervule rounded at base, where it 



* Mr. Moore (Proc. Zool. Soe., 1877, p, .184; 1ms recorded this species us from the Andaman fftlnuds, bat this habitat 

 has not been ftorridioruled by Messrs. Wood-Mason and I>e Xiet-ville. tn their Catalogue of the Bhopali<ci*m of those i -lands. 

 Mr. Kirby, in his Catalogue ip. ha* also given * Molucca" as u habitat, which is clearly a misprint. 



f p. Vis&Uide is a somewhat rare insect ; male and femuJu specimens are contained in the HorsEeld Collection which 

 airrop with Crnan r'h li^rir.-. S*ui;i! Hber *y*-vhn*>iix weiv r^ufiiMd, however, under the same name, which W. examination 

 with Mr. Butlor, u roved fa be twill male and female D. foUhtfa x Cram., a speak-a winch ts quite distinct and not synonymous 

 with D. liimjtkh, as tUittid n Mr, Ifrby's Catalogue (p. 108). D* pntibtte has both Hexes Yery similar, aatl not distinct a» 

 tn D, bmiltidc arid I). prnfifKi it is also a wide-running species, as I possess specimens both from .Tuva and ihv. Andaman 

 Islands, In all these species ft appears that the brightest white spots on the under surfaces of the wings are develop* d in the 

 male only. 



iasB&ASX 28, 1883. 2 a 



