RHOPALOCERA MALAY AN A, 



1. Satarupa affinis car. cognata, (Tub, XXXV., fig. 17.) 



Satttrayn nffiitis, Drace, Proc. Zool. Soc. i873 t p. SCO, n. 1, t. xxxiii, f» 9. 



Wings above dark fuscous; anterior wings with seven or eight small pale and semttiyaline spots, 

 aitnate two bene nth cell divided by the lower median nervate {tbe lowermost sometimes duplex), two 

 beyond cell divided by tbe upper median uervulo, two separated by the upper discoidal nervule, and 

 one on each side of the fourth subcostal nervule; posterior wings with a broad white central discal 

 fascia, commencing near costa and terminating at abdominal margin, its outer margin fringed with a 

 series of blackish spots just contained in the outer fuscous area; fringe alternately greyish-white. 

 Anti'rior witm* beneath an ubovr, I .ml. paler; posterior wings as above, but the white area larger, the 

 basal fuscous coloration above replaced by greenish-grey beneath, the black spots beneath more or less 

 detached from the outer fuscous coloration. Body above dark fuscous, beneath with legs greyish ; palpi 

 greyish, with their apices fuscous. 



Exp* wings, 40 millini. 



Had. — Malay Peninsula ; Perak (Kunst — Calc. Mus.) ; Malacca (coll. Stand.]. 



This may probably prove to he a distinct species, but I have been unable to find any very 

 strong character to separate it from the type of Mr + Druce's Boraean species t which I have 

 carefully examined, and which is now in the collection of Messrs. Godman and Salvin. Its chief 

 difference is in the position of the black spots in the outer fuscous area of the posterior wings, 

 and these in typical S". a fink are more immersed in that fuscous area thau in var. coynata. On 

 the under surface of the wings this area is also much more broken and obsolete than in the 

 variety? here described and figured. 



Genus CASYAPA. 



CatyapOt Kirby, Syn. Cat. Dram. Lep. p. 570 (1871). 



CkaUmwne* Feld. Sitzb. Ak. Wiss. Math. Nat. CL xl. p. 400 (I860). 



In this genus the anterior wings arc relatively somewhat shorter and bronder than in the preceding 

 genera, the costal margin is slightly falcate at apex, the outer margin nearly straight; the upper disco- 

 cellular nervule is shorter than the lower, which is obliquely directed inwardly, and the base of the 

 second median nervule is a little more than twice as far apart from that of the lower as from that of the 

 upper median nervule. The posterior wings are suhovate, the first and second median nervules having an 

 apparently common origin at about end of cell. The body is robust and hairy, the palpi broad, thickly 

 clothed with somewhat short hairs and directed upwards and forwards; the antennae are of moderate 

 length, with a well-thiekened curved elub, which is not. so strongly booked as iu Satarupa; the posterior 

 tibife are very prominently spined and clothed with very long hairs. 



This genus has sometimes had an indiscriminate application, and without a thorough 

 examination of many species — some not attainable to the writer — it is impossible to speak of 

 its geographical distribution. The typical species on which the genus was founded is from 

 Amboina, and Gaxyapa is probably widely distributed throughout the Malayan Archipelago, 



One species only is known to the writer as found in the Malay Peninsula, 



This mime wub preoccupied by Chtrtncnrmn in Coluoptera, and therefore the genua was rightly renamed by 

 Mr. Kirby, 



April 30, 1886. & f 



