RHOPALOCEEA MALAYANA. 



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aeventh — winch are small and somewhat indistinct — are placed on each aide of the third median nervule ; 

 an indistinct snbmarginal series of spots placed between the nervules, and two oceJlated spots, the first 

 and smallest situate between the discoidal nervules, and the second and largest situate on the second and 

 third median nervules. Posterior wings with ti lar«t: elon^fite<l and duplex ocellated spot, the smaller 

 portion of which is situate between the subcostal nervules, the larger portion extending over the discoidal 

 nervule, mul a very sumll and indistinct oeidhif^d spot between the set ond and third median nervules, 

 a broad fuscous siibmarginftl line and two marginal lines of the same colour. Wings beneath pale and dull 

 ochmceons. Anterior wings with the coll crossed by fascim as above ; other markings generally as above ; 

 the upper oeclkted .spot indistinct. Posterior wings with several irregular, darker, basal fasciie, and with 

 a broad siilmiiir^iiml fascia enelo^iii^ live dark spots placed lu'tween the? nervules, of which the second, 

 situate above the discoidal nervule, and the fifth, placed between the second and third median nervules, 

 are largest ; marginal and suhnmrginal lines as above. Body and legs more or less concolorous with 

 wings. 



Exp. wings, d and 5 , oi> niillim.* 



Hab. — Continental India; Scindc, Bombay, Calcutta, Nellgherries (coll. Moore). — Ceylon (coll. 

 Moorei. — Burma; Moulmein (Brit. Mus.) — Tenasserim ; Mectan, Taoo, Naththoung to Paboga (Lhnborg — 

 Moorel. — Malay Peninsula; Province Wellesley (colls. Dist. and Saiier). — Malacca {Pinwill — Brit. Mus. — 

 Siam ; Chentaboou and Xahconchaiseo (Layard — Druce). — Hainan (coll. M(jore). — Formosa (coll. Moore). — 

 China; Hong Kong (Brit. Mus.) t 



In North- Western India Capt. Lang reported having reared the larva of this species 

 on Barhria prionitea. J The larva, as found in Ceylon, baa been described by Mr. Moore, 

 " cylindrical, smoky black, with a pale dorsal band and paler lateral lower shade ; each 

 segment with eight small branched spines." § 



Genus RHINOPALPA. || 



m»t»t>nlpa r Folder. Wion. Ent. Mou. iv. p. 309 (I860): Neues, Lep. p. 49 (1861). 

 Eurhinm, Felder, "Reise Nov. Lep. p. 405 (1866). 



Anterior wings siibtriangular, costal margin very strongly arched and convex, apical angle obliquely 

 truncate and very prominent, beneath which the outer margin is deeply excavated and concave; inner 

 margin more or less concave. First and second subcostal nervules omitted close together near apex of cell, 



* Thin mmsnraueiit. in that of a limited FPrics mil v. jitiiI variation iu si^u doubtless* exists ns in other species of 

 the genu*. 



| It \]R9 also been recorded by Do rOrzu from Japan, jlh pointed out by Mr. Elwes (Proc. ZooL Soc. 1881, p. 8lK>}. 



j Ent, Month. Mag. i. p. 18& 



_ ij Lep. Ceyl. i. p. 41. The larva is not figured, but it is probable that Mr. Mooro lias relied on the information or 

 drawings of some local observer. 



|| Felder appears to have subsequently substituted the name l-'urlitiin in j>l:u?o of <1juI of iihh\opalpa t which he 

 originally proposed for the genus, and this without comment. Send dor, in his ' Historical Sketch/ and revision of generic 

 namen {Proc. Am.Acad. Arts & ttci, vol. pp. 178 and 262), decides that this course should be followed, on the suggested 

 grounds that thv original mime was probably a Jiybrid one. This, however, seems to me a retrograde step. plating tbo name 

 of tbn tbiij- In lure Liu;- thing itsrdf, and is not warranted by tin " Stri, klms lian Kuh-V* which thus deal with the question: — 

 "Compound words whose componeut parts are taken from two different languages are great deformities in nomeuclature, 

 and naturalists should be especially guarded not to introduce any more such terms into Zoology, which furnishes too many 

 examples of them already" (Rules Zool. Nomencl. bv H. E. Strickland, 1878, p. lfi). This does not warrant the alteration of 

 the mime, and in these days when the whole subject is beinp rendered incomprehensible (except to a few specialists) by the 

 alterations, substitutions, and divisions of the whole generic names, a conservative course wherever possible is to be 

 commended. As Packard well remarks, *'Tho work of the systematic biologist often amounts to littlo more than patting 

 Nature in a strait-jnckel" (Mouogr. Geom. Moths, or Ph alien. Un. States, p. 42). 



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