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HJWPA LOCEEA MAL A J \ I AM . 



to the same spot, I next day after breakfast took my net, and as I approached the place was 

 delighted to see the same hutterfly sitting on the same piece of dtang* and succeeded in 

 capturing it. .... I never saw another specimen of it, and it was only after twelve years 

 had elapsed that a second individual reached this country from the north -western part of 

 Borneo."* 



Genus SYMPHJEDKA. 



Sytitjilutttra, Hiibner. Vera, bek, Sclimett. p. 30 < 1816) ; Westw, Gen.Diurn. Lep. p, 294 (18G0] ; Moore, Lep, 



Ceyl. i. p. 81 (1881). 

 ddoliat, aect. 10, Feld, Nones Lep, p, 85 11801), 



Lexttu, Boiad. Yoy. Astr. Lep, p. 125 (1H32i ; Feld. Neues Lep. p. 8G (18G1), 



Anterior wings subtriangular, costal margin arched and convex, apex rounded (generally more 

 prominently so in the female) ; outer margin slightly waved and slightly concave beneath apex ; inner 

 margin nearly straight. First and second subcostal uerviilca emitted before the end of cell, the Becond 

 longer than the first ; third emitted some distance before the apices of first and second ; fourth and fifth 

 bifurcating at about two-thirds beyond end of cell. Lower disco -cellular nervule practically obsolete, 

 leaving the cell open, or sometimes slender and faintly visible ; first median nervule with the basal 

 portion curved and rounded, and with an apparently common origin with the second at apex of ceil. 

 Posterior wings ovate ; costal margin oblique and slightly convex ; outer margin slightly waved and broadly 

 rounded ; abdominal margin nearly straight, but becoming obliquely divergent to anal angle. Neuration 

 generally as in Euthaliu. Body stout ■ palpi porrect and pointed ; antennae variable in length. 



This genus is very closely allied to the following, and as Mr. Butler truly remarks, "The 

 structural characters which separate Stjmpkwdra from Adoliasj are not very considerable, and 

 from their uncertainty seem almost to indicate a state of transition ; the style of coloration, 

 however, is quite distinct." J 



Syntphmdta is found in Continental India, and throughout the Indo- and Austro- 

 Malayan regions. § 



1. Symphaedra dirtea. (Tab. XII., figs. 7 3 and 8 



l'ajtilw Dirtea, Fabricius, But, Syst, iii. 1, p. 59, n. 184 11708). 

 AtMfox }Joi*<luvalii, Boisd. Sp. Gen. i. t. 8, f. 2 (1886). 



ddijUat Dirtea, Gray, Lep. Ins. Nepanl, p. 12, t. 10, f. 1, 2 (1846); Horsf, A Moore T Cat. Lep. Ins. Mus. 



E.I. C. i, p. 138, n. 403 (1857); Moore, Trans. Ent. Soc, ser. 2, vol. v. p. 84, n. 48 (1859). 

 Lt-jeias IHrtsa, Fold. Wien. Ent. Moil, iv. p. 400 t n. 25 (1860). 



Symphadm Ih'rtea, ButL Proo. Zool. Soc. 1868, p. 618, n. 8 ; Cat. Fabr, Lop, p. 88, n. 8 {1809); Trans. Linn. 

 Soc. ser. 2, Zool. vol. i. p. 540, u. 1 1 1877) ; Draw, Proc. Zool. Soo. 1878, p, 84G, u. 2; Godm. 

 and Salv. Proc. Zool. Hoc. 1878. p. 039, u, HI- 



Male, Wings above very dark chocolate- brown ; anterior wings with a small whitish Biibapical »pot 

 placed beneath the fourth subcostal nervule, and a greenish outer marginal fascia, which is almost obsolete 

 at apical angle and gradually widens to posterior angle ; tbo inner margin of this fascia is very waved 

 and Kulidcntate; posterior wings with a very broad outer bluish marginal fascia, witb violaceous reflections, 

 occupying about half of wing, and containing a submarginal aeries of blackish spots placed between 



* * Malay Archipelago/ Hn\ edit. p. S& f — Etitlintta- I Pjfoc. ZooL Soc 18G8, p. 614+ 



§ Mr. Kirby (SyD. Cat. Diuru. Lep. p. 208 U871) giveu Australia as a habitat of S. jEroptis. 



