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lUIOrAUM'EUA MALAY AX A. 



fourth and nftb bifurcating at about two*thirda beyond coll and extending laterally to apical margin* 

 I'lijii.T cli^o-colluLar j&vrvnU- >\i\>v\. and oblique; ruuUlle didco-CL-llular curved and oblique, not much 

 longer thau brat; lower disco-cellular, slender, suberect, and uniting with median nervure at base of 

 first median nervule, whicb h curved outwardly at base, and possesses an apparently common origin with 

 the second. Posterior wings sithovate or snbtriangular ; costal margin very oblique, nearly straight, and 

 but slightly convex, outer margin rounded and scalloped, abdominal margin oblique from end of body to 

 anal angle; precostal nervure suberect; fnvt siiln-o.-shil lu-rvuk- i. -mitteil si. littk: before, and the second 

 subcostal emitted at upper extremity of the x?ell ; lower disco-cellular nervule slender and rudimentary, 

 apparently almost closing cell. Body of moderate size ; antenna* slender with a short club obtusely pointed 

 at the tip ; palpi elongate, slender and porrect. 



This may be considered an African genua, for it is on that continent and Madagascar that 

 its focus or he ad -quarters are found. Two aperies alone are recorded from the East, and 

 both of these inhabit the Indo- Malayan region, though not altogether confined to it, as 

 one species occurs in the Andaman Islands, 



The position of this and the following genus Ewjolis in the Nymph-alt m is a somewhat 

 aberrant one, owing to the dilatation of the costal nervure — a character which is principally 

 found in the Satyrintx. Prof, Westwood placed both in the family Eunjtelidw,* a very 

 heterogeneous group, and one now seldom used, though I am not at all satisfied with the 

 position in which I have placed these genera here. 



\\v know little of llio trans formations of the specks of this genus. Mr. Gooch f states 

 that the larva and pupa of an African species, JE. hiarbas, as found in Natal, are " both 

 conspicuous by their forms. The larva has two long divergent clubbed and rough horns on its 

 head, and the pupa is remarkable by its angulated, excavated, and alated development/' He 

 also remarks that " he did not establish sexual difference of markings in the larvse, although 

 some Avere green with black marks, and others were green all over." This was probably a 

 developmental and not sexual phase* 



1. Eurytela castelnaui. { (Tab. XV., tig, 10.) 



Kurytela Vtistohwm, Feidex, Wieu, Eat. Hon. iv. p- 401, n.'lG (I860); Beise Nov,Lep. iiL t, 01. f. 5, 6 (1868); 

 Wall* Trims. Eut. Sixl 1BG9, \u 381* n. 1. 



Not having received this species from the Malay Peninsula, I have given a copy of 

 Welder's figure, and here append his description : — 



*' Alia inter cilia albo iunulatis, supra cyaneis, striga submarglnalt untlata nigra, subtus obscure 

 brimneiB, basi extusque albido variegatiB, atrigis tribus comniunibus di&calibus fuscis. $ 

 ** Eitr, ilorsjithlii, Eoisd., forsitan auxais/' 



Hah*- — Malay Peninsula (Felder) ; Singapore (.Wallace). — Sumatra (Smith §). — Borneo (Wallace). 



* Gen. Diura, Lep* p. 40S- The Euryfolidm wore first separated by Doubkd&y (Cat. Lep. Brit. Mtm. p. 143). 

 t * Entomologist/ vol. xiv. p. 37. 



I This species is named after Fras. F. de Laporte p Com to de Castelnan* better known, nnder the name of Laporte, &a an 

 entomologist of renown and tin at ceiu pished iinturaliflL Official duties ciLrriud bjiu to uknofit, if not to all, the quartern of 

 the world at least, and in all he pursued bin natiiral-hiatory fttudies. The above species was probably collected during an 

 •excursion made to Malacca whilst he held the position of French Consul at tiiam. He died at Melbourne in lBbU, whilst 

 ji residing at that Consulate, in Ida seventieth year, 



§ In Bock, 41 Head Hunters, Borneo J" Append. V. 



