R H OP A L 0 CERA MALA VAN A. 



Genus HIDAlil, 



Hidftri, Distant, antea, p. 892. 



This genus differs from Erionotn and Gimg&ra in having the upper disco-cellular nervule of the 

 anterior wings longer than the lower ; the base of the second median nervule of the anterior wings is 

 also not more than twice as far apart from lower as from upper median nervule. 



Three species are found in the Malay Peninsula, ant] are here included in the genus, 



1. Hidari irava, (Tab. XXXIV., fig. 15 ? .) 



Hwpmti Jrara, Moore (Horsf. & Moore), Cat. Lep. Mus. E.I. (J. vol. i, p. 254, u. 588 j 1857) [ Plata, Stett. 



Eat. Zett. xliii. p. 828, n, 80 (1882). 

 < >U-itorrkinm Thru*, Htibn. (neo Linn,), Zufcr. Ex. Sclmiott. f. 876 t 876 <1882>. 

 H&tpcria HtfpcFpa, Hew. Deacr. Hesw, p. 25, tt* 7 (1868). 

 Krintit'tti U t! } ,<, j'<j. Mab. Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg. xxi. p B5> n. 115 {lH7ti\. 

 CfiMjapa imvn t ButL Trans. Linn. Soe. ser. 2, Zool. vol. i. p. 058, n. 2 (1877 i. 

 Erionota ir<iv<t t Mab. Ann. Soc. Eat. Belg, xxi. p. 85, n. 116 (1678). 



Male and Female, Wings above chocolate- brown ; anterior wings with the basal costal area rufous 

 jiml the disk much darker, containing four pale ochraceous Bpots, situate one in cell and three beneath cell 

 divided by the median ncrvules and two {sometimes only one) small greyish subapical spots; posterior 

 wings with the fringe greyish -ochraceous. Wings beneath very much paler than above ; anterior wings 

 with the disk blackish, spotted as above r and with small fuscous spots divided by the lower discoidal 

 nervule; posterior wings with usually four small fuscous discal spots in curved series. Body and legs 

 more or less concolorous with wings. 



Exp. wings, £ and $ y 52 to 64 millim. 



Hah. — Malay Peninsula ; Penang (coll. Dist.) ; Perak (KunBt. — coll, Dist.) ; Malacca (coll. Staud. ; 

 Pin will — Brit. Mus. ; Biggs — coll. Dist.).— Java (Horsf,). 



2, Hidari sybirita, (Tab. XXXV., fig. 24.) 



Htsptrin Sifhiritti, Hewitson, Ami. & Mag. Nat, Hist, ser. 4, vol. xviii. p. 451 (1876), 



Wings above chocolate -brown ; anterior wings with three discal pale ochraceous spots, one in celt 

 and two beneath, divided by the second median nervule, and three small subapical greyish spots in 

 suberect series ; posterior wings with the fringe greyish -ochraceous. Wings beneath paler than above ; 

 anterior wings with the inner and subapica! areas somewhat violaceous, and spotted as above; posterior 

 wings with a discal constellation of dark fuscous spots. 



Exp. wings, GH millim. 



Hau, — Malay Peninsula; Singapore (coll. Hewitson). 



The figure is taken from the typical specimen in the collection of the late Mr. Hewitson, 

 and this constitutes at present my whole knowledge of the species. 



Hidari staudingeri, {Tab, XXXV., fig. 25). 



Wings above chocolate-brown ; anterior wings with an ochraceous, irregularly transverse discal 

 macular fascia, composed of one spot in cell and three spots beneath divided by the two lower median 



* Named after i>r. Staudiiiffer, of Dresden, the great living authority on Poloaictic Ln pidoptenu 



