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id distinct and the white spots brighter and more emphasized than above, the posterior wings possessing 

 traces of an inner series of small white spots on anterior area. Bmly and h-^s mover or less concolorous 

 with wings ; antenna fuscous, narrowly uunulated with greyish, their apiees pale ochraceous. 

 Exp, wings, J and ? , 35 to ■!(» milliin. 



II vu,— Malay Peninsula; Sungri L'joug ( Ihiniford— coll. Dist) ; Malacca (Pinwill— Brit, 4Tus, and 

 BiggH — coll. Diat.) ; Ayerpanas (coll. Roberts^. — Sumatra (Forbes — coll. Dist.) — Borneo (Brit. Mus.). 



The specimen figured is a somewhat pale variety of the species, which is generally more 

 melauic in hue* It Is also closely allied to Z.jUgyas, Cram., from which it appears to be 

 distinct.* It is singular, however, that Cramer's species is found both in N.E. India, Upper 

 Tcimsserim, and Java, but apparently replaced hy Z, albipnnctata in Borneo, Sumatra, and the 

 Malay Peninsula* though similar peculiarities of distribution have been pointed out by Wallace, 

 both in birds and m animals. 



2, Zemeros emesoides. (Tab, XVIII., figs. 3 J, and 4 ? .) 



Zmurm ememidc* t Feltler, Wien. Ent. Hon. iv. p. 806, n. 10 (1860) ; Raise No?. Lep. it p. 289, n. 379, t. 86, 

 f. 9-11 (1865) ; Brace, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1878, p. 847, n. 1. 



Male. Wings above reddiah-ocb raceous, and crossed by fonr broad dart fascia*, the outer one 

 strongly carved and followed by a submarginal narrow waved fascia of the same colour, the fringe also 

 fuscous ; the anterior wings possess a short basal oblique fascia extending partly through cell and the 

 posterior wings have also a minute and obscure basal fascia. Wings beneath as above, but paler. Body 

 and legs more or less concolorous with wings. Antennae fuscous, narrowly and obscurely annulated with 

 greyish, but more distinctly so beneath than above, their apices pale ochraceous. 



Female. Paler in hue than the male, and with the snbmarginal fascia a little broader. 



Exp. wings, $ and 9 , 33 to 39 millim. 



Has. — Malay Peninsula; Province Wellesley (coll. Dist); Sungei Ujong (Durnford — coll. Dist.); 

 Malacca (Castelnau — coll. Feld.; Finwlll — Brit. Mas.; Biggs — coll, Dist,) — Borneo CDruee). 



Felder 1 s descriptions were taken from specimens collected in the interior of Malacca by the 

 Com. de Castelnau, and the species, like the preceding, is probably distributed throughout the 

 Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, and Borneo. 



Genus ABISABA. 



Abisara, Felder, Wien. Ent. Mon, iv. p. 307 (I860); Moore, Lop. Ceyi, vol. i. p. 08 (1881). 

 Smpittt, How. Ex. Butt. ii. Soap. t 1 (1861), 



Subgen, l^xita^ Butl. Trans. Linn. Hoc. ser. 2, Zool, vol. i, p. 646, n, 4 (1877). 



Anterior wings Bubtri angular \ costal margin either arched from base and then somewhat straight 

 to apex, which is somewhat angularly pointed, or convex to apex, which is rounded; outer margin 

 obliquely straight or slightly convex ; inner margin slightly or prominently convex near base. First 

 and second subcostal nervules short, emitted a little before the end of the cell ; third emitted about 

 midway between the end of cell and bifurcation of the fourth and fifth nervules, or a little nearer to the 

 last than to apex, of cell, cell very broad; disco-cellular nervules concavely bent, lower disco- cellular joining 



* In formulating opinions as to whether closely allied forms Are distinct species, when onr rant* rial is that of the 

 pcrfeet insect alone* it must always \<r granted that such conclusioni* are purely empirical. The life -history «f the insect 

 may disclose a different tftle, as when, in some British moths, the perfect insects are almost inseparable and the larval 

 chnVfu-UTfl spf t ificiklly divi^i'iit, or n'a vertu ; or again, as has been recently shown, very different forms may simply 

 represent different seasonal or dimorphic phases of one species. 



