RHOPALOCERA MALAYAN A. 



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black spots with scattered bluish scales ami inwardly margined with oehraeeous, separated by the median 

 nervules, and a pale bluish streak inwardly mur-i nod with black and outwardly with ochraeeous at anal 

 angle. Body above and beneath more or less concoloroua with wings. 



Male. This sex is not known to the writer, but has been figured by Mr. Hewitson, and described as 

 ** Anterior wing dark brown. Posterior wing brilliant blue. 1 ' * Wings beneath apparently as in female. 



Exp. winpjs, ¥ t 28 mi Him. 



Hae. — Burma; Moulmein (Horsf. & Moore). — Malay Peninsula; Malacca (Pmwill— Brit. Mus.) ; 

 Singapore (Wallace— coll. Dist.).— Borneo (Druce^. 



Mr, Hewitson, who had the opportunity of examining several specimens, states that 

 " on the underside this species varies considerably in the form of the line which crosses the 

 anterior wing beyond the middle, as well as in the eize of the black spots of the posterior 

 wing/' It appears to be a moderately scarce species, or at all events is uncommon in average 

 collections made hi the Malay Peninsula. 



Genus SEMANOA, gen* nov. 



Hemaiu/tii Distant , utiUa, p. 



Anterior wings somewhat short and broad, costal and outer margins slightly convex, inner margin 

 very slightly concave. Costal nervure terminating on costa a little before end of cell, where it lb somewhat 

 recurred; first subcostal nervule emitted at al>out one-third before end of cell, second about midway 

 between first and third, third nt end of cell, third and fourtb bifurcating at about two-thirds the length 

 of third ; disco- cellular nervules somewhat oblique ; first median nervule emitted at about end of cell, 

 the second emitted about two-thirds nearer the base of first than base of third. Posterior wings subovate, 

 the costal margin rounded at base and then straight and oblique to apex, which is obtuse; posterior 

 margin rounded, very siigbtly waved or scalloped, with three slender tail-like appendages situate at the 

 apices of tbo median nervals : nbdominnl margin concavely excavated a little before anal angle. Costal 

 nervure extending to about apex; costal nervnW bifurcating a little before oud of cell T and opposite to the 

 apparently common origin of the first and second median nervules; submedian nervure slightly curved 

 outwardly, internal nervure strongly curved inwardly. Palpi robust and porrect, the second joint clothed 

 with coarse and closely compressed hairs and extending for two-thirds its length before eyes ; apical joint 

 much more slender than second, but moderately robust* Body robust. 



Sematuja is founded on a species already received from both Borneo and the Malay 

 Peninsula, and its colour affinities are with ( 'tdapacilma, especially hy the metallic markings of 

 the under surface of the posterior wings; an additional subcostal nervule to the anterior 

 wings, however, sufficiently separates it from that genus. 



L Semanga superba. (Tab. XXI., tig. 13 5 . 



Ihrda? xitjterba, Draco, Proc. ZooL Soc. 1878, p. 351, n. 1. t. 82, f. 11. 



Female* Anterior wings above dark violaceous* with the costal and outer margins (broadest at apex) 

 dark fuscous; posterior wings with tin costal, posterior and abdominal margins fuscous, the posterior 

 margin darkest, and containing some irregularly sized and arranged ochraceous submarginal spots, one 

 between the lower submedian nervule and Bubmediau nervure, and one at lobular anal angle, each 



* Mr, Hewitium nlno append t.. thi« (Wriplmii, uw tti.il." which is clearly ommeuos, ami prnlmMy referral to 



n mutilated 6iH!i-iiui>ii ; W lm* idso figured the female much in the same way, ami probably from the same eanse. My own 

 figure is move or less imperfect for a similar reason. 



