It HO PA L 0 CERA MA LA YANA . 



Female. Larger than the male, the ante nor wings with the greyish markings more distinct, the 

 posterior wings above possessing a submarginal series of large black spats, the basal black area larger than 

 in male, and occupying base of cell, and continued for about half the length of cell between the median and 

 Bubmedinn nervures, an irregularly shaped black spot at anal angle ; posterior wings beneath as above, 

 but the black inner margin of cell continued and fused with the lower subinarginal spoL 



Exp. wings, <J f 98 to 145 millim, ; $ (one spec), 145 millim. 



Hajj, — Continental India; Gudwal (coll. Dist.) ; Sikkira (de Nic^ville), — Malay Peninsula; Peiak 

 (Kiinst. — coll. Semper) ; Selangor— Kwala Lumpor (Biggs — coll. Dist.)- — Siam (Thomson — coll, Godm. 

 and SahO. 



Fio t LOO* — (truilhoptera rhaitasuaiithm, J . 



Some confusion formerly existed as to the identity of this species, Boisduval's types, 

 — derived from Cochin China and Manilla,— forming a composite species** of which the 

 Philippine insect has been correctly separated by G. R. Gray under the name of 0. nepliereus* 

 I am indebted to my friend Mr. 0. Salvin for comparing my figure of the Perak female with 

 those in his own collection from N. India, and which he writes me do not disagree* Mr. Salvin 

 also writes, " Qnritkoptera rkutfamanthus, var. Thomsotrii, Bates, ex Siam, is based upon two 

 male specimens, which are hardly to be distinguished from <h rhadamanthut of India. The 

 wings are rather more elongate, but the difference is very slight and not constant/' 



The male here figured (Tab, XXVII. «, fig. 5) is a very dwarfed form captured at Kwala 

 Lumpor by the Rev. L. C. Biggs ; the female (of which a woodcut is given) is a Perak specimen 

 kindly lent me for examination by Herr Georg Semper, of Altona. 



Boisduval ilistinctlv ilesrribt.-^ tin* female as having on the posterior wings "la bonhiro precedeo d'un rang ilc tuclms 

 ovftlcst" whicli agrees with what U hero understood us bib <[ «i'i L .s whilst he ^t^nljts us his var. a. n " kindle aymit hi Ix in In re 

 eiitiercmcnt conihicnte uvee Uw taeuvV 1 which entirely denotes the Philippine species renamed by G, E. Gray, 



