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RIIOPALOCERA MALA YA NA . 



2, Tanaecia supercilia. (Tab. XV., fig. 8 a*.) 



Ttmaeeia mpercilia, Butler, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1868, p. 610, n. 4, t. 45, f. 7. 



This species or variety is founded od n Penang specimen contained in the collection 

 of Limit. Roberts. As I have not seen this type, nor met with an example in any other 

 collection, I bave had Mr. Butler's figure reproduced, and copy bis original description* 



H $ i Valde affinis T. varuna; aire supL:i velut in T, print colomta?, at fascia postienrum lunulari 

 niagia arcuata et charaeteribus basalibus punctiformibus ; alai subtus pallide fuscae, area interno*basali 

 antiearum ilaveseente, fascia Bericeo-albida discali, maculis posticarum latioribus nigris ; alitor velut in 

 varnna. 



"Exp. alar. unc. 2J." 



Hab. — Malay Peninsula." <( Penang" (coll. Boberts). 



I have followed Sir. Butler in treating this as a distinct species, and append the following 

 remarks of his own in justification of that course : — "Lieut. Roberts has assured me that the 

 nearly-allied species of the Adolias group are quite constant to their localities; otherwise 

 I should have considered this to be a variety of varuim"* 



3, Tanaecia violaria. (Tab. XV. f fig* 9 ? .) 



Tanaecia malaria, Butler, Proc. Zool, Soc. 1B08, p. 012, n. 11, t, 45, f. 8; Druce, Proc, Zool. Soc. 1678, 

 p. 345 t ti- 4. 



This species is only known to me, and figured and described here, under precisely the 

 same conditions as apply to T. mpareilia (supra). 



A ? . Alas supra fnscre ; anticas velut in pdea, at marline toto fuseo ; posticto fascia lunulari ad 

 angulum ani increscente submarginali apud apicom lunulis niveis, apud unguium ani purpureia, a lunulia 

 fuacis intua limitatis! extus a maculis sagittatis fuseis extra slbido terminal is prfficipue apud apicem/' 



" Al® subtus velut in jndamm at area basali fusco-flavida (nec ochreo-albida) sagittisquc posticarum 

 violaceis et longioribua." 



" Exp. alar. unc. BJ, M 



Had.— Malay Peninsula. "Singapore" (coll. Roberts). — Borneo (Druce). 



4, Tanaecia pulasara. (Tab. XIX., fig. 6 $ ; Tab. XIV., fig. 13 9 .) 



Adult** pulatarfii Moore (Horaf. & Moore), Cat. Lep. Mas, E,I.C i. p. 100 t u. 882 (1857k Trans. Eut. Soc. 



aer. 2, vol. v. p. 71, n. 16, t. u\ f. 2 (1850). 

 Tautitrui pulttMrtt, Butl. Trans. Linn. Soc. ser, 2, Zool. vol. i. p. 540, n. 2 (1877). 

 Ttinah'M varuua, Bulb Dec Volienhov, i Proc. Zool. Sot-. 1SI>S, p, Gil, D, 5. 



Male. Wings above fuliginous-brown. Anterior wings with the cell crossed by four blackish lines, 

 followed by u similar but. waved litu/ a little beyond upt-x ; between the last two linen the colour is 

 somewhat violaceous, the markings beneath cell being much as in the preceding species ; a transverse 

 aaries of six large oblong greyish spots on apical half of wing, placed between the nervules, the upper five 

 of which are margined with fuscous and conically rounded inwardly and acutely excavated outwardly, 



* Tlie aanie writer. Uowi-vt-r, ili-i-fl not jilwuyn follow Man coursr. aa in iWrilan» the larpfc collection of Lepitlopteta 

 mat]* 1 in Chili by Mr. Edmonds, In roinurks that In some uistaiicos he had described as distinct speck-H what tin- er.l]< t'N.r 

 "evidently only rufiarded as varintks. but it wonl-1 indeed be rfinnrktiblo if the collector shoiih! he always correct in bis views 

 an to tbe extent of variability in each species" (Traaa. Ent* Hoc. 1882, p. 118), This ifl good evidence aa to how otir 

 so-called species depend upon tin- *yiilh.«!w: or .malytii* M i: oi thu uiitid of the describer. 



