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EIIOPALUCEUA MALAYAN A, 



I have only received a single female specimen of this apparently somewhat rare species. 

 It is peculiar by the similarity of the sexes, the usual female characters of colour and markings 

 being, in this species, also transferred to the other sex- 

 Genus LIPHY1U. 



Liphyra, Westwood, Proc. Ent. Soc. 18G4, p. 81. 

 Qfmtfr, Fold. Boise Nov. Lop. ii. p. 219 (1805). 



Body very short and robust ; eyes large ; palpi minute ; antennas gradually thickened from centre 

 to opes. 



Anterior wings subtriangular, the costal margin oblique and slightly arched, the outer margin 

 convex, inner margin sinuated and coarsely hirsute ; costal nervure extending to about centre of costal 

 margin; first subcostal nervule emitted a little beyond centre of cell; second emitted at about half the 

 distance from apex of cell as its base is from that of the first nervule ; third and fourth bifurcating at 

 about one-third the distance between end of ceU and apex of wing ; base of the upper discoidal nervule 

 united with the subcostal nervulc a little beyond end of cell; disco -coll alar nervutee robust, slightly 

 concave. Posterior wings somewhat elongately ovate ; the posterior margin rounded and convex ; costal 

 uervure extending to about apex of wing ; first subcostal nervule emitted at about one- third before end of 

 cell; cell very broad; second and third median uervules with their bases twice as wide apart as the 

 distance separating the bases of the first and second. Legs robust. 



This unique genns is known only by one species/ which is probably the largest and most 

 robust butterfly found in the whole of the Lijaznidw. Its geographical area can at present be 

 only estimated by that of its sole representative, 



1, Liphyra brassolis.f (Tab, XXIL, fig, 18 *-.) 



lAphyra bnmottt, Westwood t Troc. Ent. Soc. 1804, p. 81 ; Butl. Trans. Linn. Soc. eer. 2, Z«ol. vol. i. p. 510, 

 n. 1 (1877). 



Sttrosi* rohuta, Feld, Eeiae Nov* Lep. ii. p. 219, n. 287, t. 27, f, 10, 11 (1805). 



Female, WingB above reddish ocbraceous. Anterior wings with a large spot occupying apical two- 

 thirds of cell and extending beyond it ; two large spots beneath apex of cell divided by the middle median 

 nervule, the apex and outer margin broadly and the inner margin narrowly for half its length fuscous or 

 black ; oxtreme outer margin castaneous. Posterior wings with rive discal spots, one inside and two just 

 beyond cell, and two divided by the middle median ueryule, and the posterior margin broadly and inwardly 

 sinuate, fuscous or black; extreme outer margin caBtaneous; abdominal margin somewhat darker. Wings 

 beneath paler ; anterior wings with the discal black spots present, but the apex and outer margin only 

 mottled with brownish ; posterior wings with the posterior two- thirds and the costal margin mottled with 

 brownish, the black discal spots obsolete. Body and legs more or less concolorous with wings; eyes 

 black; antennfe brownish* 



Male. With the black markings on the upper surface of the wings larger and more distinct, on the 

 anterior wings occupying the whole of the inner margin. 



Bxp. wings, <f and ? f 63 millim. 



♦ Mr, Hewitsuu described two West African species aa also belonging to this genua, but I quite agree wiLli Mr. Kirby, 

 and cannot believe that they " ore correctly referred" in the generic seuse (111b, Diurn. Lap., Lyc. fcsuppl. pp. B4 — 5). 



f This species has considerable superficial resemblance to those of the Tropical American gtsnus BrassoliM, from which it 

 presumably owes its name. 



