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IlIIOPA L 0 CERA MALA YANA . 



species, and with a broad central Irregular and touch -waved pale fnscia, which is inwardly margined with 

 hlaclt spots ; a black spot in cell : a sub marginal narrow pale fascia inwardly margined with small rounded 

 black spots and outwardly by narrow linear black spots; outer margin much as in C. hyum. 



Female. More ochraceous than the male; black area of the anterior wings rather larger, the 

 oblique macular fascia above larger, continuous, and much more pale ochraceous, and the connecting 

 spots with costa also more distinct; the pale disks of both wings are also a little more black* spotted. 

 Wings beneath as in male. 



Exp. wings, <J 80 millim. ; ? (one spec.) 150 imlliin, 



Had,* — Malay Peninsula; Province Wellesley (coll, Diat.) ; Malacca (Pinwill — Brit. Mas.) 



I only possess one female specimen of this species, and should incline to the view that 

 it must be abnormally small in size* as the above-given dimension testifies. 



The males vary in having the pale markings either ochraceous- white or nearly pure 

 greyish -white. 



3. Cethosia hypsina. (Tab, VIII,, figs. 6 and 7 cT ; 8?,) 



Ctthoaia hypsina, Felder, Reise Nov. Lep. hi. p, 885, n. 559 (1886) ; ButL Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2, ZooL 

 VOL i. p. 648, a, 2 (1877)* 



Male. Wings above as in C, methifpsea, hut the black area larger and occupying the cell, which 

 is crossed by some indistinct reddish fascine (obsolete in some specimens) ; an oblique and very much 

 sinuatcd pale ochraceous or greyish-white macular fascia situate a little beyond cell and terminating a little 

 beneath the seeond median menrule, but without the outer pale spots as in C* methypsea; posterior wings 

 as in that species, but with the black margin somewhat broader, its enclosed pale lunate lines clear 

 and distinct, and the discal area more black- spotted. Wings beneath as in €, ntetkypsea, but the red 

 colouring darker j the posterior wings have the central pale fascia situate farther from the base, and the 

 series ol linear and rounded black spots are nearer the black margin and not placed at the margins 

 of a narrow pale fascia; on the anterior wings the narrow pale submarginal fascia la replaced by a serieB 

 of dark spots situate nearer the outer margin. 



Female. Wings above generally paler and more ochraceous than the male, the black area to the 

 anterior wings much larger and occupying the whole wing, with the exception of the oblique macular 

 fascia beyond cell and a large subtriangular space on inner margin, which does not extend above the 

 third median norvule, and is there distinctly paler ; wings beneath as in the other sex. 



Exp. wings, J 70 to 80 millim. ; J 73 to 78 millim. 



Haik — Continental India; Nt.-puul [Brit. Mus.)t — Malay Peninsula; Province Wellesley (.colls. Dist. 

 and Saiier); Malacca (Pinwill — Brit. Mug.)* 



Tliis species is a near ally to C. hijpsm, a Bornean species ; the males are very similar, 

 bat the females are sufficiently distinct. 



* Mr, Butler remarks (Trans, Linn. Soc. eer. Si, Zool. vol. i. p. 648), "We have a female from Assam." This is 

 probably one of the inecotft so localised on the authority of Mr, Warwick, but Mr. Wood-Mason has confitkd to me his 

 opinion that none of the insect* labelled *' Assam — Warwick" were really collected in Unit district, and as he lias largo 

 collections of Assam butterflies under his care at Calcutta, 1 have accepted his report, and have not quoted the habitat, 



f Mr, Butler also states the British Museum collection contains the species from Assam ; but, as previously stated, 

 that habitat is open to great doubt, and I have not used U. 



