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RHOPA LOG ERA MALAYAN A . 



rupifio WxsimM*, Linn. Syst. Nat. edi s. p. 479, it. 180 <1758i; Mns. Ulr, p. 301, n. 110 (170-1): Syst. Nat. 

 cd. xh. p. 782, n, 195 (1767) ; Clerck, Icouob. Ins. i. fc. 18, f. 2 (1759| ; Fabr. Syst. Enfc. p. 511, n. 288 

 H775); Spec, Idb. ii. p. 101, n. 444 (1781) ; Mailt. Ins. ii. p. 54, n.589; Eiit.Sy.st. L p. 3«, n. 113 

 (1708) ; Cram. Pap. Exot. i. t. 82, C. D il775> ; Sulz. Gesch. Ins. p, 145, t. 18. f. 0 U77G); Guiel. 

 Syst. Nat. i. 6, p. 2325, n. 105 (1790); Herbst, Nature. Sohinett. vi, p. 41, u. 23, t. 126, f. 2, 8 (1793) ; 

 Esptjr, Atifil. Schniutt. p. 233, t. 07, f. 3 ilTOHj; Godt. Eric. Mdtli, ii. p. 75, n. 143 (1819); Lucas, 

 Lep. Exot. p. 40, t, 23, f. 2 (1635) ; Boisd. Sp. Geu. i. p. 377, n. 224 (1830); Gray. Cat. Lep. Papil. 

 p. 71, n. 830 (1852); Horsf. A Moore, Cat. Lep. Mas. 1%. vol. i. p. 91, u. 187 1 18,17 1; Yoll. Tijd. 

 Enfe. iii. p. 88, u. 155 (I860) ; liouk. Proc. Eut. 8oc. Phil. hi. p. 490, n, 28 (1864) ; Moore, Proc. Zool. 

 Soc. 1865, p. 186 ; ibid. p. 750 ; Oberth, Etudes d'Enfc. Qirntr. Livr. p. 100, n. 823 (1879). 



t 'h/tia Dimmilu, Swains. Zool. 111. Ins. ii. t. ISO ( 1B33). 



t 'hilam Dimimilis, Moore, Lep. Ceyl. vol. i, p. 153, fc, 57, f, 1, a, b 11881) ; Proc. Zool. Soc. 1882, p. 261, 



Male. Wings above blackish, with pale oehraceous markings ; on anterior wings these markings consist 

 of a narrow basal subcostal streak, a triangular patch outwardly and triple-cleft occupying about basal 

 half of cell, three spots in and before end of cell, followed by a curved discs! series of ten spots irregular 

 in shape and sizej, two long and basally fused fuHciate-like spots between lower median ncrvnle and 

 submedian nervure, a submarginal row of smaller spots, a prominent apical spot, and a series of minute 

 fringe-like spots ; on posterior wings the markings are as follows : — a large patch more or less occupying 

 cell, which is surrounded by a series of long and fasciate-like spots placed between the nervules ; these 

 spots are outwardly lunate and somewhat lanceolate inwardly,— that between the lower median nervule 

 and tbe subui^dian nervure being much the longest, — and a submargmal series of lunate spots; two dark 

 ochraeeoua spots at anal an^le and the fringe alternately of that colour. Wings beneath much paler than 

 above ; anterior wings spotted as above, but the spots paler than above and somewhat shaded with bluish ; 

 posterior wings creamy, the neuration broadly blackish, a Bubinarginal series of creamy spots with blackish 

 margins, a marginal series of dark oehraceous spuU with inner blackish margins and a large and similar 

 spot, with a blackish centre at anal angle ; fringe alternately creamy-white. Body above and beneath 

 blackish, spotted and striped with j n < (u-nraivous : I -;- Nat-kish, streaked with pale oehraceous. 



Exp. wings, 92 to 110 millim. 



Had.— Continental India ; N.W. Himalaya (Lang & Hocking — Moore) ; Canara (Horsf, & Moore) ; 

 Darjeeling (coll. Dist.) — Ceylon (Thwaites-coll. Distj. — Malay Peninsula; Penang; Province Wellesley 

 (foil. Hist.) ; Perak (Biggs — coll. Dist.) — Philippines (Reak.). — Cochin China (Oberth.). — China (Voll.) ; 

 ilon- Kong (Gray). 



The larva and pupa of this species have been figured by Horsfield and Moore,* and were 

 copied from the drawings of General Hardwicke, in tlie Library of the British Museum. They 

 have also been figured in Moore's 'Lepidoptera of Ceylon,' + from drawings made on that 

 island by the Bros, de Alwis, and the larva is there stated to feed on " Tetrantlwra," and 

 again by Mr. Mackwood to feed on Cinnamon.; ilnrslidd and Moore also state that the 

 transformations were observed by Lady Gilbert, — presumably in Continental India,— who 

 described the larva as feeding on a plant called by the natives Maikc* " The larva was 

 obtained on the 26th July; two days after it commenced its transformation, ami on the 

 following day the chrysalis resembled a dried twig, adhering to the frame only by the 

 extremity of the tail, and supported on each side by two line threads; in this state it died."§ 

 In N. W. India, Capt. Lang writes : — " The only place in which I have seen this species 

 is Subhathoo, altitude 4000 feet, in June, frequenting h grassy undulating down, flying rapidly 



* Out. Lep. Mil*. E. t C, T. 11, f. 3, !i a, 36. ] Lop. 0*3 l>>a N vol. i. t. 57, f. la, 1 b. J Ibid, p. 153. 



§ Horaf. <k Moore, Cat. Lep. Mua. L\ L C. vol. i. p. 92. 



