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RHOPALQCEBA MALA YA NA . 



5. Abisara tanita. (Tab. XVIII., fig. 14 ? .) 



Ttwita ttmita, Hewitwn, Ex. Butt. ii. Tax, t. 1, text (1861); Druce, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1878, p ( 817, 4; 



Kirby, Cat, Dium. Lop. p, 28«, 11. 5 flW7U. 

 Zfe*&i Orphan, Donbl. Hew. (nee Boisd.), God. Dium. Lep. 1. 69, f. 0, 7 11851). 

 Abisara {Laxita) tanita, Bntl. Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2, Zool. vol, i, p. 54ti, n. 4 (1877 1. 



Female. Above bright purplish-red; anterior wings witli tbe margins, the base, anil a broad basal 

 streak between the lower median uerrule and tbe submediau nervure pale fuacous ; posterior wings with 

 tbe margins (costal and abdominal margins broadly) and some broad streaks situate in cell and between 

 the nervules pale fuscous. Wings beneath bright purplish-red ; anterior wings with upper and apical 

 blue streaks in cell, the last margined outwardly with black, and with some blue and black discal spots, of 

 which the largest and most prominent are two beyond cell, and two divided by the second median nervnle; 

 two faint bluish eubmarginal linear faseire which become obsolete at apex, and the costal margin broadly 

 fuscous near base ; posterior wings with some transverse series of black and blue spots at base, some large 

 elongate blade submarginal spots with blue centres between the nervules, and blue and yellow submarginal 

 linear fascire, between which the colour is fuscous ; posterior margin fuscous. Body pale fuscous ; legs pale 

 obscure oeh nations. 



Exp. wings, 2 38 millim, 



H.m. — Malay Pen insula ; Province Wcllesley (coll. Dist.) ; Malacca (PinwiU — Brit. Mus.) ; Singapore 

 (Brit. Mus.) — Borneo (Druce U 



1 have not received, nor have I been able to examine a male specimen of this species, 

 which, as figured by Doubleday and Hewitson,* has the wings above fuscous, with the apex 

 and the outer margin of the anterior wings broadly, and the apical portion of the outer margin 

 of the posterior wings narrowly pale reddish ; the apex of the anterior wings being palest, and 

 the margin of the posterior wings containing a fuscous line. 



It is likely that the subgenus (Laxita) proposed by Mr. Butler for the reception of this 

 species may subsequently be used in a generic sense, though its founder stated that he was 

 ■■ doubtful of its generic distinction." The relative positions of the bases of the first and 

 second subcostal nervules of the anterior wings are somewhat aberrant. 



6. Abisara damajanti. 



A?>imr« Damajanti, Feidor, Wien. Ent. Mon. iv. p. 397, n, 18 (I860). 

 Taxita I ><wuija>tti, Kirby, Cat. Dium. Lep. p. 286. u. 0 (1671). 



This species is only known to me by Felder's description, \ and is evidently closely allied 

 to A. tanita. The following is the original diagnosis:— 



" Alls rubris, supra iinmaenlatis, subtus maculis discalibus cyaneis (singula maculre atrfle imposita), 

 posticis strigis quatnoi siibmargiiialilms, prima cyaueit, secuuda et tmurta fuseis, tertia albida. S . 



"Coil. Felder. — Species perpulelira A. Qrpkna, Boisd., valde amnis, pagina autem iuferiore alarum 

 anticarum maculis cyaneis ornata suftkienter di versa." 



J Gen, Dim :;. I t. f. (i uuil 7. 



\ "In pu-m'uaulit Malay ica t-ollectii/ 1 



