R TIO PA L 0 CERA MALAY AN A* 



black line; a central pair of rounded oblique black lines posteriorly united, preceded by an angulatcd 

 bluish spot, and followed by a transverse, elongate aemihyaline white spot ; beyond this is a black spot 

 followed by an attenuated white spot dirocU'd inwardly, and a white spot immediately beyond cell (all these 

 spots margined with black) ; an oblique diseai series of ten white spots, divided by the nervules, the upper 

 six linear, of which the fourth and fifth are inwardly broken by blackish ; seventh and eighth large, the 

 seventh being irregularly rounded, and the eighth subquadrate ; ninth and tenth very small, and situate- 

 between the third median nervule and the submedian nervure in an area, which is bright bluish extending 

 to the inner margin; the upper nine of these spots are margined with black, and are followed by a straight 

 subnmrginal black fascia, and an equally broad but macular marginal fascia of the same colour ; a black 

 basal lateral fascia commencing between the third median nervule and submedian nervure, and continued 

 across the base of posterior wings and thorax. Posterior wings with the basal third bluish, crossed by 

 three lateral black fasciae, of which the first is nearly straight and extends across the abdomen ; the second 

 slightly curved and suddenly and strongly attenuated between the subcostal nervules ; the third narrow, 

 curved, and macular, widening towards abdominal margin; beyond this the colour is olivaceous, with a 

 submarginal series of triangular black spots placed between the nervules, each preceded by duplex black 

 lines posteriorly and concavely connected: and followed by a black macular marginal fascia; abdominal 

 margin subroseate. Wings beneath much paler than above ; anterior wings marked as above, bat with all 

 the black markings only slightly indicated ; posterior wings without the basal lateral black fasciae as above, 

 but with two black lines between the costal and subcostal nervures, and an irregularly waved and broken 

 black discal line extending from upper subcostal nervule to third median nervule ; this is followed by an 

 obscure- * ries of small blackish spots, h series oi duplex Eineai spota as above, but smaller and outwardly 

 margined with white, a narrow submarginal but broken black fascia, and a marginal series of black 

 spots. Thorax above coneolorous with the wings, with the anterior margin ochraceous, and with two broad 

 black bands ; abdomen above more or less ochraceous, banded and annulated with black ; body beneath 

 and legs more or less coneolorous with wings. 

 Exp, wings, 92 to lt>0 millim, 



Hab.* — Malay Peninsula; Penang ; Province Wollesley {colls. Dist. and Sauer) ; Malacca (Pinwill ; 

 Brit. Mus.) 



Many reasons advocate the view that the P, lilanittts, ButL, is but a alight local variety of 

 the P. gamhri&ius, Fabr. Already Mr. Moo re, has described the Teuasserim form under the name 

 of i\ apical is t \ and if these "secies" are to stand then the Andaman, Sumatran, Eornean 

 and other slightly varietal forms should also be placed in specific isolation. J 



Genus LEBADEA. 



Lrlutdea, Pelder, Neues Lep. p. 28 (1861). 



Anterior wings subtriangular, elongate, and apicaliy attenuated in the male, broader in the female. 

 Costal margin arched and convex, the apical angle rounded, beneath which the outer margin (which is 

 sinuate) is more or less concave ; inner margin sinuate, oblique near base and slightly concave near 

 centre, the outer margin distinctly longer than the inner margin. First subcostal nervule emitted a little 



* Of the variety lilaeinu* only, f Proc. Zool. Hoc. 1878, p. 8*29. 



I If the principle of describing slight but constant local varieties as distinct species is to be commended, then logic 

 would inexorably demand that those lJritisL species of Lepidoptera which vary with Ideality should also receive distinct 

 names — an achievement which the boldest describnr ha« not yet perpetrated. A.n excellent paper by Mr. K* M'Lachhin, 

 etui taming general rmtes mi viirtiitimi in soim- lirhisU Lepidoptera may with advantage be consulted.— Trawi. Ent. Hoc. (lbtiS), 

 pp. — 4llB; and ulna, and particularly, Mr, Jernu-r Wiir-t 11 Nutes on the Macro-Tjepitloptera of the Shetland Isles*' 

 (' Entomologist, 1 vol- siii., p. 24y, ct »rq.\ 



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