R1I0FA L0( 'EttA MA LA VAN A . 



14. Euthalia asoka, {Tab. XV M fig. 5 ; Tab. XIV., fig. 8 ? .) 



^ifoiw* .4jqA» p Folder, Seise Nov, Lop. iii. p. 438, u, G94, t. 58, f. 1 (1866) ; Butl. Trans. Linn. Koc. ser. 2, 

 JSool. vol. i. p. 589, n. 5 (18771, 



Male. Wings above dark castaueous ; both wings with a bluish outer marginal border, narrowest 

 on anterior wings, where it commences a little beneath apex, widening to posterior angle, and very wide 

 on posterior wings, terminating near submedian nervure; thifl bluish area is more or less suffused 

 with purplish reflections ; cell of anterior wings crossed by four black lines, two central and two terminal. 

 Wings beneath dull and dark oehraceous; anterior wings with the cellular markings as above, followed by 

 a curved black line connecting (lie lower discoida! nervule with the base of the second median m-rvule, and 

 with h, very rjiirrnw. waved, dark fuscous discal or submar^inal fascia, commencing near lower subcostal 

 nervule, between which and upper discoidal nervule it is strongly angulated ; beyond this fascia the 

 colour is violaceous; posterior wings with a paler waved submarginal fascia, and a very indistinct 

 discal one which is principally visible near the seli u-la] mrvules. Body and legs more or leas 

 concolorous witli wings. 



Female. Wings above pale brownish, Anterior wings with the cellular markings as in the male ; 

 a waved line beyond cell, a small looped lino beneath cell at outer base of third median nervule, and 

 a larger one of the same character at inner base of the same nervule, preceded by another small one near 

 base; a discal series of seven pale spots divided by the nervules (the lower two together situate between the 

 third median nervule and enbmedian nervure), the two upper spots divided by the upper discoid*] nervule 

 are largest, and the first is deeply scooped and t-xcavaLcd at its anterior margin, the third is small and 

 subquaclrate, the fourth and fifth convex interiorly ; beyond these spots the colour is bluish, followed by a 

 waved and narrow brownish fascia outwardly and broadly margined with bluish grey; a marginal fuscous 

 line and the fringe grey. Posterior wings with a discal curved series of pale spots surrounded by darker 

 brown, placed between the nervules, from which to tin- outer margin the colour is paler and contains 

 a central narrow waved dark brownish fascia ; a marginal fuscous line and the fringe grey ; cell crossed by 

 two pairs of looped lines. Wings beneath much paler and oehraceous ; markings as above, but the discal 

 series of large spots to anterior wings much paler, and not outwardly followed by bluish, and the narrow 

 dark fascia placed much closer to them than on upper side. Body and legs more or less concolorous 

 with wings, 



Exp. wings, 3 u'O millim. ; ? 07 millim. 



■Hab. — Malay Peninsula ; Penang (colls. Moore and Gosse) ; Province Wellesley (coll. Dist.) ; Malacca 

 tPinwill— Brit. Mus.) — Borneo (Felder). 



The figure of the male here given is taken from a Maiaecan specimen in the British 

 Museum, which was collected by Capt. Pinwill. The female is in my own collection from 

 Province Wellesley, and somewhat differs from Felder's figure * of the same sex by the much 

 less pale coloration of the posterior wings between the discal series of spots and the outer 

 margin. Felder, however, refers the species to two localities, viz. "Malacca, interior" 

 (collected by the Com. do Castelnau), and Borneo, but does not specify from which tins 

 specimen figured was received. Consequently it is at least possible that the pale form may 

 have been from Borneo, and the species as found in the Malay Peninsula is of a somewhat 

 melanic race. 



• linst' N;'V. 1 .op. iii. t. 5S, f. 1. 



