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transverse streaks; a triangular space of mottled greyish-white from costal margin near the apex; 

 hind-wing with six small pale spots centred with a white dot." 

 Exp, wings, 67 to 7fi millim. 



Hab. — Malay Peninsula ; Perak (KiinsL — coll- Semper). — Java (Horsf. & Moore); Bantam (coll. Dist.). 



I am indebted to Herr Georg Semper for the opportunity of examining and figuring 

 a Perak specimen of this species, Messrs, Marshall and tie Nieeviile treat M> supttdana ns 

 conspecinc with 3f* aswa, Moore, and M. tristis, Fehl.,* or rather estimate the three forms as 

 varieties of one species* I possess Javan and therefore typical examples of M. suijiuhna y with 

 which the Perak specimen figured exactly agrees, and I think it is sufficiently distinct to 

 stand alone „ 



5, Melanitis abdullse. (Tab. XIX., fig, 3,) 



Meianith abduiltn, Distant, Ann. & Mag, Nat, Hist, ser. 6, vol- xii. p. 211 (1883). 



Wings above dark fuliginous -brown, somewhat paler at outer margins. Wings beneath ochraceous, 

 thickly mottled with brown ; anterior wings with two broad ant! irregular dark fascia* crossing cell and 

 wing, some irregular waved markings beyond cell, and some small and indistinct ocellated spots placed in 

 irregular series on outer discal area, of which the most distinct are two separated by the upper diBcoidal 

 nervule, and two separated by the second median nervule ; posterior wings with a narrow dark fascia 

 passing a little beyond end of cell, beyond which the colour is uniformly darker and more opaque, and on 

 which is included a series of six submarginal ocellated spots placed between the nerrales, of which the 

 second (situate above the discoidal nervule) and the sixth (placed near the anal angle) are somewhat the 

 smallest. Body and legs more or less eoneolorous with wings. 



Exp. wings t 68 millim. 



Hab. — Malay Peninsula ; Province Wellesley (coll. Diet). 



My collection contains but a single specimen of this species, and I have not met with it in 

 any of the numerous and large consignments from Perak, of which opportunity for examination 

 has been afforded. 



Genus LETHE (antea, p. 43). 

 % Lethe mekara. {Tab, XXXIX., fig. 9*.) 



DM* Mekara, Moore (Horsf. k Moore), Cat, Lep. Mm. E.I.C. vol, i. p. 219, n. 454 (1857), 

 Ltthf Mvkam, Butl. Cat, Satyr. Brit. Mas, p. 110. n. 82 (1868); Moore, Proc, Zool. Soc. 1878, p. 824; 

 Marsh, & de Nio, Butt, Ind. t Burm. & Ceyl. vol. i. p. 148, n. 132 (1862), 



Male. Wings above fuliginous -brown ; posterior wings with four Bubmarginal blackish spots 

 surrounded by dull red, and sometimes with a fifth subapical black spot as in the specimen figured. 

 Wings beneath pale olivaceous -brown ; the disks of both wings crossed by two narrow castaneous fasciae, 

 the first straightest, crossing cells, and on anterior wings having a short additional branch from median to 

 subcostal nervures, the second waved — particularly on the posterior wing— and crossing wings Leyond 

 cells, the inner fascia is outwardly margined with greyish-white, and on posterior winga the lower dusco- 

 cellular nervule is also shaded with* castaneous ; beyond the outer fascia the colour is paler, more 

 violaceous, and inclining to ochraceous at outer margin, and containing on anterior wings Eve submarginal 

 ocellated spots placed between the nervules (a sixth apical spot is only denoted by a dark central spot), and 

 on posterior wings six ocellated spots, the uppermost largest and well separated from the rest which are 

 more or less contiguous. Body and legs more or less concolorous with wings. 



Exp. wings, 3 , 63 millim. 



• Two species described from Continental India. 

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