HHOPALOCEHA MALAYAXA. 



6. Narathura adatha. (Tab* XXILT. t fig. 1 3 f 2 * .) 



AmlthjjMtiia Adatha t Hewitson, Cut. Lyc. Brit. If US. t. 4, f. 20 — 31 (18G2) ; B\itl Trans. Linn, Soc, ser. 2, 

 ZooL yoI, i, p. 548, ti. 4 <1S77). 



Before describing this species it is necessary to make two prelim irmrr observations. 

 Firstly ; the figures here given are those of a male and female specimen captured in Malacca 

 by Gapt. Pin will, and now contained in the British Museum; and secondly: these figures do 

 not altogether correspond to those given by Mr. He wit son as representative of his species, 

 I have, however, carefully compared them with the type specimen of Hewitson, and find that 

 they are correct and faithfuL Mr, Hewitson also obscured the identity of his A. adathct by 

 firstly placing it as a synonym of the " Arhapala nm-ak'* of Boisduval, * and subsequently as 

 distinct from A. micate, hut conspecifie with the Amboinese Ambhjpodia chamfer, Feld. + 



Male. Wings above dark violaceous -blue ; t apices of the tail-like appendages to the posterior wings 

 greyish -white. Wings beneath brownish, with the following spots and fascia? margined with greyish ; 

 anterior wings with two spots is, and one at end of cell, two spots beneath cell divided by the third median 

 nerval e, a curved fascia (dislocated at the upper median nervals) between cell and outer margin and 

 a narrower submarginal fascia ; posterior wings with seven basal spots, a transverse central fascia 

 commencing at costal nervure and terminating near base of upper median nervule,, followed by a transverse 

 fascia commencing at lower subcostal nervule, a submarginal fascia and three marginal transverse metallic 

 greenish spots, more or less spotted with black, near anal angle. Body above and beneath more or less 

 concolorous with wings. 



Female. Kesemblmg the mate, but with broad darker margins to the upper surface of the wings. 

 Exp, wings, j and £ , 40 to 42 in ill i in. 



Had. — Malay Peninsula ; Malacca (Pin will— Brit, Mus. ; Biggs — coll. Dist.) ; Singapore (Kerr — 

 coll. Dist.)* 



7, Narathura atosia. (Tab. XXIII. , figs. 0 <f , 5 2 .) 



AmhUjpxUa atosia, Hewitson. Ill, Dinra. Lep, p. 0, a, 37, t. 2, f. 6, 9 (1808); Bruce, Proc. Zool. Sue. 1873, 

 p, 353. n. 4 ; Bntl. Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2, Zool t vol, i. p, 548, n. 5 [18771. 



The figures of this species, here given, are taken from two Malaccau specimens in the 

 British Museum, As I have not received the species, I append a copy of Mr* Hewitson '& 

 description : — 



** Dpperside. M ale . — L i lac - blue ; the margins black, very narrow. Anterior wing with a large 

 central spot of somewhat different colour, not seen except in a certain light, and not produced by any 

 unusual arrangement of the scales." 



"Underside rufous-brown. Anterior wing, with the transverse band broken, composed of seven parts ; 

 three together, the fourth projecting outwardly from the rest, the three following further from the margin 

 than the fourth." 



* Cat, Lyc, Brit. Mus. p. 7 ilwiiJ . \ 111. Diurii. Lep. p. 8, n. 28 (l&t>8). 



I A specimen received from Singapore has ih(« colour ahovc- darker blue nuil less violnceons than, in the figures 1 urn 

 given, which are taken from Malaccan specimens in the British Museum. 



February 20, 1885. 3 I 



