nnop.\iju i:i:.i mala vaxa. 



1SH 



towards apex. Posterior wings with two short pale oblique fascire at base, a diseal series of about 

 eleven blue ami black markings as on anterior wings, and a snbmarginal series of obscure dark conical 

 spots, through which pass two series of pale, transversa linear spots, the inner series being distinctly 

 lunulate. Body above concolorous with wings, beneath with legs greyish -brown. 



Female. Above reddish, the dark spots beneath visible above; anterior wings with a prominent 

 subapical white fascia. Wings beneath generally as in male, excepting the white subapical Fascia. 



Long, a* and 2 , 48 inillim. 



Had.— Malay Peninsula; Province Wellesley (coll. Dist.) ; Malacca (Pinwill — Brit. Mus.l ; Singapore 

 (coll. Godfery). — Java (Horsfield — Brit. Mus.) — Borneo (coll, Di&t.) 



1 have not figured the male, which is, however, easily recognised by its uniform dark 

 colour above, with subapical ocliraceous fascia to anterior wings, and beneath by its general 

 resemblance to the female. 



4. Abisara thuisto. 



Tajrito Thubto, Hewitson, Ex. Butt. ii. Tax. t. l t f. 5, 0(1861); Druce, 



Proc. Zool. Soc. 1873, p. 847 t n. 1. 

 Abkara Thivtto, Butl, Ann. Nat. Hist, ser, 4, vol. v. p. 363 (1870). 



Male. Wings above uniform and very dark indigo-blue or black. 

 Wings beneath bright reddish-brown ; anterior wingB with the apex paler, 

 an oblique bluish fascia crossing cell ; a number of irregularly shaped blue 



and black diseal spots arranged in three series, the outer most distinct FlQ sl AbUara thuUto $ 



consisting of six spots divided by the nervules, the upper three being very 

 pale, and a submarginal series of linear blue spots margined with black situate between the nervules ; 

 the fringe black ; posterior wings with a transverse bluish fascia crossing cell and extending to near costa, 

 and with a number of irregularly shaped blue and black diseal spots as on anterior wings, of which the 

 outer are tfce most prominent, and which an plru^-d between the uervules ; submar^inal linear spots as on 

 anterior wings, and the fringe black. Body above concolorous with wings, beneath somewhat paler ; legs 

 oclnaceous. 



Female. The following is Hewitson's description of this sex, which I have not yet received from the 

 Malay Peninsula : — 



"Rufous, clouded at the base. Both wings crossed transversely 

 beyond the middle by a band of oblong black spots, each spot marked with 

 dull blue — those near the costal margin of anterior wing interrupted by 

 five white spots. Both wings with a hand of Immlar black spots near the 

 outer margin, each spot traversed by a line of blue or white. Anterior 

 winj^ with a transverse band of black spots before the middle. Underside 

 does not differ from the male, except that it is lighter." Fig. bi.— AbUant thtmto, ? 



Exp. wings, £ 35 millim. ; ? " ljjj in." 



Ham. — Malay Peninsula; Sungei Ujong (l>urnford — coll, Uist.) ; Singapore (Hewitson).— Sumatra 

 (coll. Hewits.) — Borneo (colL Godm. & Salv.) 



A single male specimen received from Sungei Ujong (and subsequent to the completion of 

 the coloured plate) constitutes the only representative of the species I possess from this region. 

 This specimen is figured in the above woodcut (fig. 51), the female (fig. 52) being copied 

 from Hewitson's ( Exotic Butterflies.* 



