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HHQPA LOCEEA MA LA YANA. 



appear to bo a very ancient and little differentiated generic group. This is evidenced by their 

 wide geographical distribution as a genus, the extremely large area in which two, at least, 

 of the species* are also found, and their generically distinct appearance combined with 

 smallness of specific differentiation. 



1. Leptosia xiphia. (Tab. XXVI., hg. 8.) 



Papilio Xiphia, Fabrioius, Spec. Ins. ii. p. 43 t n. 180 (1781) ; Mant. Ina. p. 20, n. 20-1 (1787 1. 

 Papilw Xtna t Fabr. Ent, Syut. iii. 1, p. 194, n, G04 (1793). 

 PUrU Xina t Godt. Eiie. With, is. p. 162, n. 147 (1810). 



Pontta Xinu, Horsf. Cat. Lop. E.I.C. p. 140, n. 66 (1829); Boiad. Sp. Gen. i. p. 481, a. 2 (1886); 



Horsf. & Moo ro, Cat. Lep. Mas. E.I.C. vol. i. p. 09, n. 130 (1857); Voll. Fauu. Ind-Nefsri. Pier. 



p. 3, n. 1 (1865) ; Wall. Trans. Ent. Soo. ser. 3, vol. iv. p. 317, n. 1 (1867) ; Snelb Tij<l. Eut. xix. 



p. 16, n. 56 (1876) ; Lep. v. Midden- Sumatra, p. 22, n. 1 U880). 

 Pontia Xiphia, Butl. Cat. Fabr. Lep. p. 229, n. 2 (18G«J) ; Druce, J?roc. Zool. Soc. 1873, p. 354, a. 1; ibid. 



1874, p, 107 , n. 1. 



Xkhitona Xiphia, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1878, p. 887 ; Lep. Ceyl. vol. i. p. 118 (1881). 

 Var. a. Laptosia Vhlormjraphti, Hiibn. Zutr, Ex. Selmiett. f. 47, 48 (1818), 



Male and Female, Wings above white, Anterior wings with the costal margin narrowly blackish, the 

 basal third of which is spotted with greyish, apex, and a large spot at about centre of upper median nervuleB 

 black. Anterior wings Ijc-iieulh with the costal area and apex speckled with fuscous Btrigte ; an outer marginal 

 M-rivs of small black spots, and the discal spot as aliow, but imicr. I'osturior wings buixwHa ttOBSed wjib 

 irregular fuscous strig®, those on the disk assuming the form of transverse fascia;. Body above blackish, 

 beneatli greyish ; legs greyish, streaked with fuscous. 



Exp. wings, 6* and ¥ , 40 to 44 millim. 



Has.— Continental India; Bombay (Leith — coll. Dist.) ; Calcutta (de la Chaumette). — Ceylon 

 (Thwaiti's — coll. Dist.). — Tenasserim ; Ahsown (Limborg — Moore), — Malay Peninsula; Sungei Ujong 

 {Durnford — coll. Dist,); Malacca (Wallace),* — Siaoi; Chentaboon, Nahconchaiseo (Drucej. — Sumatra 

 (Snellen).— Java (Horsfield).— Borneo (Bruce) ; Sandakan (Pryer— coll. Bis t.).— Bali (Wallace), — Flores 

 (Wallace).— Timor (Vollenhoven). — Philippine Islands (Brit. Mus.). 



Mr. Wallace, wlio examined a long series of this species from many habitats, states that 

 it varies but little throughout its extensive range, and that the specimens from the Philippine 

 Islands "are very large/* f Some variation does, however, ensue, Vollcnhoveu writes, 11 Chez 

 mi individu de Sumatra le Bommet des ailes superieures est presque entierenient blane en 

 dessous. Les individus de Timor ont la tache post-cellulaire plus gratide que les autres." I 

 Horsfield found it "by no means unfrequent" in Java"; § but it appears to be a moderately 

 scarce insect in the Malay Peninsula. In North-Western India, Capt. Lang only met with it 

 " in one place, a forest in the interior of Oudh, in the month of October," where it seemed 

 i4 to be afraid to fly boldly from the shelter of the bushes/' || Capt. de la Chaumette, however, 

 found it "in great abundance in Calcutta, Hying very softly about as if blown by the wind/" 

 and during the months of March and April, It would appear to be found nearly all the year 

 round, as Mr, Hutchison, in Ceylon, records it as found at Matale in August, and from June 

 to December, in gardens at Colombo-** 



* L, alccsta la the Ethiopian, and L> xiphia in tho Oriental Regiona. 



I Trans. Ent. Soo. ser. 3, vol. iv. p. 817 (1867)* \ Faun. Iod-Ncerl. Pier. p. 4. § Cat. Lfjp. E. I. C. p. 14 L 



H Ent. Mo. Mag, vol* h p. 102. If Ibid vol. ii. p. 36. ** Moojo, Lep. CeyL voL I p. 118. 



