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IinOPALOCERA MALA TANA . 



Females of the typical form of the species are also variable in hue, as in some specimens 

 the transverse series of pale spots on the upper surface of the anterior wings arc outwardly 

 margined with small pale violaceous augulated spots, which are absent in the somewhat 

 melanic specimen here figured* 



5. Tanaecia aruna. {Tab. XV., fig. 7 3 .} 



AHolias Anma, Folder, Wien. Ent. Hon. iv. p. 400, n. 21 (1860). 

 ddotou Partialis, VoU. Tijd. Ent. v. p. 107, n. 17, t. 11, f. 6 (1862). 



Ttmatcia aruna, Bull. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1BG8, p. 611, u. 6 ; Trails. Linn, Soc. scr.2, Zool. vol. i. p. 640, u. 1 (1877). 



Male. Closely allied to the preceding species (T. pidamra), but the transverse series of spots on the 

 upper side of both wings paler and larger, those of the anterior wings having a central waved narrow 

 brown fascia, and those on posterior wings being also paler and having their outer margins a little nearer 

 to the posterior margin. Wings beneath more oehraceous, and with a narrow, distinct intermediate 

 dark oehraceous fascia between the dark terminal margins of the transverse spots as seen on the 

 posterior wings. 



Exp. wings, 60 millim. 



ELve. — Malay Peninsula ; Malacca {Felder; Pin will — Brit, Mas*) 



The figure is taken from a Malaccas male in the British Museum, which was collected by 

 Capt. Pinwill ; the female has yet to be described, but is probably somewhat similar to the 

 other sex, and not more divergent than are the sexes of the closely-allied species T* pulasara* 



Tanaecia robe rt si. 



Tanaecia Robertsii, Butler, Cist, Ent. i. p. 235 (1874). * 



Of this species I know nothing, eave the following description, m no figure was given, and 

 the type is in a private collection : — 



" Male. Wings above pale olive-brown ; apical half pearly white, bounded just beyond end of cell by 

 an irregular blackish undulated line ; a second zigzag line across centre of disc, interrupted on lower 

 diacoidal interspace of primaries; a series of submarginal hastate black markings ; margin rather broadly 

 pale brown; ring-like characters at base, as usual, blackish; body brown ; underside much paler, the 

 brown area altered to pale oehraceous j the black hinated lines of disc broken up into spots, the hastate 

 markings only sharply defined at their apices ; basal markings as above, -but more sharply defined on 

 secondaries ; body pale oehraceous*" 



Exp. wings, " 2 inches G lines.'* 



Hab.— Malay Peninsula; "Malacca, Ajerpauas (H. Roberts).' * 



"Most nearly allied to T. mptnilia, ButL, but smaller, with the entire externo-discal area of all tbe 

 wings pearly- whitish, and the hastate submarginal markings distinctly separated from one another, as in 

 T. vwlaria" 



