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EHOPALOCERA MALAYAN A. 



Mule. Wings above dark violaceous-blue, the outer margins narrowly fuscous. Wings beneath pale 

 violaceous -brown, with the following dark chocolate-brown markings and fascia* margined with obscure 

 greyish : — anterior wings with a basal patch occupying more than third of whig, to which is attached 

 a curved fascia crossing end of cell and terminating at lower median nervule^ beneath which is a rounded 

 spot, followed by an outer curved fascia terminating a little before the lower median nervule, and an 

 obscure submarginal fascia ; posterior wings with a patch occupying about basal third, and outwardly 

 waved ; a central narrow much-waved fascia preceded by a spot between the third median nervule and the 

 subrnedian nervure, an outer wider irregular fascia, a faint submarginal scalloped fascia, and with the 

 usual greenish scales near anal angle, containing a huge black spot at the extreme angle. Eody and legs 

 more or less concolorous with wings. 



Exp. wings, £ , 44 millim. 



Hab. — Burma; Monlmein (Brit.Mus.). — Malay Peninsula ; Malacca (Pitiwill — 13rit.Mua.); Singapore 

 (coll. Godfery). — Sumatra (Moore). — Java (Horsf.) ; Batavia (Snellen). — Borneo (Bruce), 



The late Dr. Horsneld remarked that this butterfly in Java appeared to be a most 

 abundant species compared with its allies. Strange to say, I did not meet with it myself 

 when collecting in Province Wellesley, and have seen it in none of the large collections since 

 received or examined from different parts of the Peninsula, excepting a specimen contained 

 in the collection of Mr. Godfery, who labels it " rare kind," It is therefore not common in this 

 fauna. The specimen figured is one certified by Mr. Godfery to have been mutilated by a bird, 

 and I have figured it in this condition. 



According to Br, Horsfield, as observed in Java, " the larva feeds on the leaves of several 

 >]h.'Ch s uf Eittjuua and Caltjptrantltes." * 



4. Panchala morphina. 



Pawhitia morpltwa, Biatant, Ann. & Mag* Nett* Hist, aer, 5, vol. liv. 



p. 201 (1684), 



Male. Wings above dark shining purplish -blue, the margins 

 (narrowly), nervures, and nervules more or less blackish ; abdo- 

 minal area of the posterior wings fuscous. Wings beneath pale 

 brownish : anterior wings with the basal area from costa to median 

 nervine, and extending outwardly to a little beyond cell, darker 

 brown, followed by a waved fascia of the same colour, terminating 

 beneath second median nervule, where it is narrowest; the outer 



Fio. an. Panchaia mcrphina j.f margin also darker brown, with the apes and extreme margin pale 



violaceous. Posterior wings with the basal fourth dark chocolate- 

 brown, with a narrow outer violaceous margin ; a small chocolate-brown spot margined with violaceous 

 above the submedian nervure, a narrow waved central violet-margined fascia crossing disk, strongly 

 fractured at end of cell, and then more narrowly continued to internal nervine; this is followed by 

 a short and somewhat broken fascia, commencing at lower subcostal nervule and narrowly terminating 

 at lower median nervule, the whole outer margin broadly infuscated, the apex and extreme margin pale 

 violaceous. Body and legs more or leas concolorous with wings. 

 Exp. wings, £ , 51 millim. 



Hab. — Malay Peninsula; Perak (Kunstler — Calcutta Mus.), 

 * Cat, Lep. E. I. C. p. 101. 



f The absence of the tail-like appendages to tho posterior wings in this specimen is probably duo lo mutilation. 



