II [IOPA LO CERA MALAYAN A. 



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I have not seen the female of this beautiful species, and its discovery is iu a large part 

 due to the encouragement given to Herr Kilns tier by Dr. Anderson, of the Indian Museum, 

 Calcutta. 



5. Panchala trogon. 



Panckala (rayon, Distant, Ajiii. A Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 6\ voJ, xiv. p. 201 (1884), 



Male. Wings above bright metallic enierald-green ; nervures and ner- 

 vules, extreme margins of the anterior wings, costal urea, abdominal area, 

 and posterior margin — narrowing from apex to upper median nervule and 

 then broadly to anal angle — of posterior wings dark chocolate -brown ; fringe 

 and abort tail-Kite appendage of the same colour, the latter with its apex 

 greyish. Wings beneath purplish-brown, the lower half of anterior wings 

 almost without the purplish reflections: anterior wings crossed by the Fla * H7 — NiW" 3 ■ 

 following greyish lines : — two looped and macular crossing cell, two disco- 

 cellular at end of cell (the innermost continued to third median nervule), two discal, waved and fractured, 

 commencing near costa and terminating at third median tu rwih-, ami two subminimal, which are narrow 

 and somewhat obsolete ; from base of third median nervule to inner margin is a narrow greyish line, from 

 which to outer angle the colour is greyish and before which is a small greyish spot: posterior wings 

 darker purplish, the basal area beneath the median nervine clothed with long brownish hairs and with the 

 following greyish lines : — four macular, arranged iu transverse basal series, followed by three macular, 

 situate one above and one within cell, and one irregular in shape beneath cell ; these are followed by about 

 four, much waved and fractured, crossing disk of wing, and a waved margins! line from apex to second 

 median nervule, where there are three blackish spots, much covered with metallic greenish scales and 

 outwardly bordered with greyish, extending to anal angle. Body above brownish ; body beneath and lege 

 somewhat paler. 



Exp. wings, 3 , 3G millim. 



Has.— Malay Peninsula ; Perak (Kiiustler — Calcutta Mus.). 



This species is allied to both the N.farquJiari ? Disk, and the V. aurea, Hewits. (a Bornean 

 species), by the metallic emerald -green colour above; it is, however, very distinct from both, 

 not only by the different markings beneath, but also by the much smaller brownish markings 

 on the upper surface of the wings. 



Genus AMBLYPOBIA. 



Amblyiwlia, Uorsfield, Cut. Lap. E.I.C. p. 9tJ [LtiZti) ; Moore, Lep. Ceyl. vol. i. p. 113 ^1881). 



Wings broad ; anterior wings with the costal margin arched at base and convexly oblique to apex ; 

 outer margin moderately convex ; inner margin slightly concavely sinuate. Costal nervure terminating on 

 costa a little beyond end of cell; subcostal nervulcs live in male and four hi female; lirst subcostal 

 nervule emitted at about middle of cell, second rather nearer lirst than third, which is about midway 

 between second and end of cell, third and fourth bifurcating near middle of third, fourth and fifth [in 

 male) bifurcating about midway between base of fourth and apex of wing ; cell broad ; lirst and second 

 median nervules emitted a little nearer together than second and third. Posterior wings subovate; costal 

 margin obliquely convex ; outer margin broadly rounded, elongated near anal angle, with a short tail -like 

 appendage at apex of submedian nervine, the anal angle somewhat broadly lobate. Costal nervure convex 

 and extending to apex ; subcostal nervuics bifurcating at about one-third before end of cell, which is 

 brood; first and second median nervuics emitted close together near end of cell, third emitted a little 



