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H HOP A LOCEUA MALAYAN A, 



and extreme outer margin alternately greyish-white between the nervnlea, greyish slender longitudinal rays 

 in cell and basal area dusted with minute greyish scales. Body above black, the pronotal collar and base 

 of head with minute greyish spots; body beneath blackish, the sternum spotted with greyish; legs 

 blackish, the femora streaked with greyish. 



Female resembling the male, hut larger. 



Exp, wings, 3 and 9 , 120 to 144 niillim. 



Hal.— Continental India: Southern hidia (coll. Dist.l ; Sikkira (fie Nic.) ; Bengal (Moore). — Ceylon 

 (Moore). — Tcnnsserim ; Uatsiega; Moolai to Monlat (Limborg — Moore). — Malay Peninsula; Penang; 

 Province We lies ley {colls. Saiier and Disk) ; Perak (Kiinst. — CaUs. MusO ; Sungei Ujong (Dnrnford — coll. 

 Diet.); Malacca <Prawill — Brit. Mus, ; Biggs — coll. Dist.). — Sumatra (Snellen), — Nias Island (Kheil). — 

 Java (Voll. and Oberth.). — Borneo (Druce) ; Banjermasin (coll. Dist.). — Philippines (Reakirt), — Celebes 

 (Piepers). — China (Gray). 



This widely distributed species appears to he of migratory habits, as I received in 1879 

 a specimen taken at sea during a calm* thirty miles from Singapore and nine from the nearest 

 land. * If during a calm one of these butterflies can be found so far at sea, it can be easily 

 imagined that in such a region of sudden squalls and storms involuntary migration must 

 frequently take place. 



Herr C- Piepers, whose interesting observations of butterfly life in Celebes have been 

 previously referred to, gives an interesting fact relating to this species : — " While 1 stood ou 

 the bank of the river, which forms at this spot an apparently still and very clear pool before 

 entering the cleft in the rock, from which it reappears as a foaming and thundering waterfall, 

 a specimen of Pup Mo Helenas t Linn., came flying over the water. Flying low, as is the habit 

 of this species, it came within a short distance of me, when I saw it suddenly half close its 

 wings and dive down close beside me, so that the whole body and about a third of the wings, 

 which shtnti'il upwards, were immersed; it then raised itself again out of the water and 

 nVw away," t 



According to Mr. Wade, this species in Kandy, Ambogamua, and Kottawa forest, in Ceylon, 

 11 Frequents high jungle only," Whilst, on the same island, Mr, Mackwood describes it as u found 

 principally in open glades and roadways in the jungle, from about '2000 to 4000 feet." \ 



I have received from Peuang specimens of a largo dragonfly and this species, labelled 

 respectively by the Rev. L. C. Biggs M pursuer and pursued," 



9. Papilio iswara. (Tab. XXX,, figs. U, 2 5.) 



\Yliit,\ Fntom. i. p. 1 1^12); Dmibl. Mow. Gen. Diurn. Lep. t. 2. f, 1 (184flj; Gray. Cat. 

 Lep. PapiL p. 19, n. 76 (1852) ; Horsf. & Moore, Cat, Lep. Mua. E. I. C. p. 101, n. 201 (1857); Will. 

 Trans. Linn. Soc. vol. xxv. p. 51, a. 58 (1865); Butl. Traust. Linn. iSoc, ser, 2, Zool, vol, i, p. 553. 

 n. 15 H877]. 



Male. "Wings above Mack ; anterior wings with obscure longitudinal brownisb streaks in cell, and 

 still more obscure streaks on outer area, the fringe narrowly spotted with whitish ; posterior wings with 

 a large whitish iliscal macular patch, divided by the nervules, and extending from costal margin, where it 



f rif^nnUy rrferrorl to thin specimen, in error, under the name of P. hy*ta*pe* w a local form of P. Iwlemi* (Proc, Enl. 

 Boo. Lf.tul. 1879. p. XSX). 



] Tijfl. Ent. xix. pp. sviii to xxiv, nm\ En^Iifih truiiBklion by Kirby T 'Entomologist/ i. p. 268. 

 1 Moore's *Lepi<3. Ceylon! 1 vol. i. p. 149. 



