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JIHQPALOCERA MALAY AN A. 



Male and Female. Rufous or oehraceous.* Anterior wings with a email wbite subapical spot placed 

 just above the bifurcation of the fourth and fifth subcostal nervules, and with the cell crossed by the following 

 dark markings : — a short and nearly straight basal line continued to submedian nervure, a double-looped 

 and much-waved line at centre, and two longer, waved, and more widely separate*! lines at apex ; two 

 waved discal fuscous lines crossing both wings, commencing about subcostal nervure of anterior wings, and 

 terminating near submedian nervure of posterior wings ; on both wings these are followed by a waved and 

 more indistinct hue, and again by a very dark and sinuated submarginal line ; a similarly dark marginal 

 line, the fringe somewhat alternately greyish. Wings beneath very dark oehraceous or pale castanuoua, 

 crossed by three very irregular dark faacia% the first near base, the second crossing the wings about cellular 

 apices, the third between the last and outer margin ; these fascia? have their margins darker, and the third 

 encloses a series of dark spots placed between the uervules (these are most distinct on the posterior wings); 

 marginal and submarginal lines as above, and the subapical white spot to anterior wings very distinct. 

 In male specimens the area of the median nervules, on the under surface of the anterior wings, is shining 

 greenish fuscous. Body and legs more or less concolorous with wings. 



Exp. wings, #&$50tn54 rnillim. 



Had. — Continental India; N.W, Himalaya (Hocking); Assam; Madras (Horsf. & Moore). — Malay 

 Peninsula ; Province Wellesley (coil, Diet.) ; Malacca (Pinwill — Brit. Mus.) — Sumatra (Wallace). — Java 

 (Wallace); Batavia (Snellen). — Borneo (coll. Gotlm. & Salv.); Sandukan (Pryer — coll. Dist.) — Flores (coll. 

 Diet.) — Timor (Wallace) — Celebes (Snellen). — Siam ; Nahconchaisoe (Druee). — Formosa (Brit. Mus.) 



As previously stated (ante, p. 137), the larva has been figured by Dr. Horsfield, who wrote f 

 that it " feeds on the Jarak (Ricinus communis J), December." 



A closely allied form from Ceylon has been described by Mr* Moore under the name of 

 Ergolis mix or at a* § 



2. Ergolis merione. (Tab. XV., fig. 6 ? ♦) 



lUipilio Merione, Cramer, Pap. Ex. ii. t. Ill (x H (1779). 



EryoUi Merume, Butl. Oat. Fabr. Lep. p. 70, n. 8 (18C9); Trans. Lktu. Soc. ser. 2, Zool. vol. i. p. 545, n. 2 

 (1677) ; Wall. Trans, Ent See. 1809, p. 882, n. 2. 



Male and Female. Wings above warm ochraceous. Anterior wiuge with a subapical white spot 

 placed above thu bifurcation of tho fourth and tifth subcostal nervules, and with the following blackish 

 markings: — two lines crossing coll near base, the outer one continued to submedian nervure; two 

 waved and zigzag lines crossing centre of cell, and continued to submedian nervure; three waved 

 lines at end of cell not passing median nervure ; a pair of curved and very zigzag lines crossing disk at 

 about centre of wing, followed by another very waved line, commencing near the subapical white spot ; 

 a submarginal series of three waved lines, the inner one faint and somewhat macular ; the outer margin 

 black, with the fringe alternately greyish. Posterior wings with the markings similar and generally 

 continuous to those of the anterior wings, but the inner of the three submarginal lines replaced by a series 

 of castaneous spots placed between the nervules, sometimes at and along the median nervules, divided by 

 the junction of the anterior and posterior waved lines. Wings beneath duller and slightly darker than 

 above, the spaces between the waved lines (excluding tho subrnarginal ones) castaneous, thus showing two 



* The specimen figured is a very pale female from Province Wellesley, the usual colour being more rufous above, with 

 tho markings much darker beneath. 



f Horsf. & Moore, Cut. Lep. Mus. E. I. C. i. p. 145. 



J The cautor oil plant. According to Crawfnrd this plant is cultivated throughout the Malaj^an Archipelago The 

 moet frequent name for it is jarak, and such we find it in the Malay and Javanese, but in the Sunda and Madurese languages 

 it is called kaliki " (Deaoript. Diet. Indian IsUIh. p. Utitl). 



§ Lepid. Geyb i. p. 44, t. £8, f. 2, 2 a, 



