RHOPA LO CERA MALAYAN A, 



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tljfc apical and outer black area with a series of small pale spots. Posterior wings with the neuratiou and 

 the onter margin blackish (the last often containing a small pale spot near anal angle as in the specimen 

 liguredl, the subcostal nervure and subcostal nervules being very broadly black. Wings beneath much paler 

 than above, the posterior wings especially having a pearly reflection, the dark margins to both wings much 

 paler than above, but hath containing n series of paler spots. Body above and beneath more or kss 

 funeolorouH wit}] win^s ; legs greyish, the tibite and tarsi pale brownish. 



Female. Win<js above fuscous, with the following greyish- white markings: — anterior wings with two 

 long cellular streaks, a discal curved series of six elongate spots beyond cell, placed between the nervules, 

 the fifth being short and broad, and the sixth longest, two long and inwardly connected fa&eiate-UUe spote 

 between the third median nervnle and the submedian nervure, and a submarginal series of smaller spots 

 placed between tin- nervules. tin- innermost of the series being that placed between the lirst and second 

 median nervules, and that at outer angle being duplex. Posterior wings market! much as the anterior 

 wings, but the discal series of spots smaller and more uniform, the submarginal series more regular and 

 the base of the cell and the abdominal area more or less ochraceous. Anterior wings beneath paler than 

 above, but marked in like manner ; posterior wings paler greyish, the disk more or less infu seated, the 

 outer margin fuscous, with the submarginal row of pale spots as above. Body above and beneath more or 

 less concolorous with wings. 



Exp, wings, <J » 75 to 80 millim. ; ? , 80 to 83 millim. 



Hab.— Continental India ; Canara (Brit. Mas,) ; Bengal (Stolicska — coll, Feld.). — -Burma (Brit. Mas. 

 and coll. DistO. — Tenasserim (Brit, Hus.}. — Malay Peninsula ; Quedah * (colL DistJ ; Province Weltosley 

 (coll. Diat). 



I treat this species as a variety of N. kippia, and as distinct from the N. Valeria, Cram,, 

 hy the character of the pale-spotted outer margin of the anterior wings. Even treated as a 

 distinct variety, considerable variation is discovered amongst the female examples, particularly 

 as regards the amount of ocliraceous markings on the abdominal area of the upper surface of 

 the posterior ptiergs, and the depth of hue of the under surfaces of the same wings, which are 

 either infnscated as in the specimen figured, or almost greyisli as in other examples. The 

 fuscous margin containing the series of pale spots is, howevei% always present. 



Subfain. PAriLIONINJS. 



FaitiHunhM , Swaiusoii, Cab. Cycl. p. 87 (1810); Bates, Journ. Ent. 



vol.ii. p.177 (18G4); Moore, Lep. CeyL vol. i. p. 341 (1881); 



Mursh. & de Nic, Butt. Iml. Burru. & CeyL vol. i. p. 18 (1882). 

 Pttftiiintti ht , l.)i>uU, (ien. Diurn. Ley. i. |». 1 (1840); Trim. Bhop. 



Afr. Austr, p. 10 (1802). 

 t'ttftiiiouhif^ Uiiisd. Goii. i. |>. 171 (183fJ); Westw. Introd. Mod. 



Class, his, vol. ii. p. 349 (184UJ. 



Abdominal margin of the hind wins curved inwardlv, not *' IC3, pupa «* n. 



_ . , & i**»m A ;M ^r. , On. L< n. lu*. Mm. 



channelled to ivceivt* tin? iibdouirii. ' And-rior tibisi- |>rovxdfM "ith k. I.C.) 



* I huvi? udhei'od to llin- \v:iy of spoiling thi* name, though Keddnh, or Kedah, \$ now thu genera] spelling* 

 t By eiT» unfortunate oversight, at p. in tin* diagnosis of the sn bikini] y Picrintc, the word "nor" bus Lecu 

 substituted for "but", thus completely destroying the true character: "nor chanelled" should read "but chiuwltaL" 

 The- Pieritar being thus partly distinguished from the PapilionhuB by having the abdominal margins of the posterior 

 wings ehuuelled to receive the abdomen. 



June 20, 1885. 4 K 



