H HOP A L OCERA MA LA YANA . 



Exp. wings, # , 110 millim* 



Hab. — Malay Peninsula; Perak (Kiinst. — coll. Semper). — Sumatra (coll. Hewita.). 



The specimen figured is the only one I have seen from the Malay Peninsula ; it is one of 

 Kiinstler's captures in Perak f and ie contained in the collection of Herr Georg Semper, to whom 

 I am much indebted for kindly forwarding the same to me for insertion here* 



Genus DISCOPHORA (ttntea, p, 74). 



1, Discophora tullia (antca, p. 74). 



As previously stated (autnt, p. 75), in the male specimens from the Malay Peninsula which 

 I had identified as Cramer's species, the anterior wings were unspotted, "but in specimens 

 from Continental India there are usually three discal rows of pale spots between the end of cell 

 and outer margin." Messrs, Marshall and de Nieeville have since expressed an opinion that 

 this may possibly prove to be the Discophora zal of We at wood.* I have, however, beeu able to 

 show that this is not the case ; t but still no typical form of D* tullia has yet reached me from 

 our fauna. The difficulty has also been increased by the receipt of a number of male specimens 

 of an allied species, I), sondatm, Boisd, I therefore propose that we should for the present 

 enumerate the Malay form as— 



L Discophora tullia, ray. 



2. Discophora sondaica. (Tub. XLIIL, ng. 7 c?.) 

 tiiMOftfojm Sandtiitft, BoisdirraJ, Sp. Gen. i. t. 12, f. H [1886). 



Male. Closely allied to the corresponding sex of D. ttdli« t but differing on the upper surface of the 

 anterior wings by having three bluish discal spots separated by the lower discoidal and upper median 

 nervulcs, and three smaller outer bluish spots separated by the first and second median nervules. 



Exp. wings, $ , 70 to 75 millim. 



Had. — Malay Peninsula; Perak (Ktinst. — colls* Semp* & Gale. Mias.j ; Snngei tljon^ (Godtery — colh 

 Distj — Sumatra (Forbes— coll, Dist.J.— Java (Boisd,). 



This species— for the reasons above given — will naturally follow our D. tullia, var. Capt. 

 Godfery, who sent home a specimen from Suugei Ujong, informed mo that it was " captured in 

 a very dark and deeply shaded spot, which I can only compare to the gloom of a pine forest 

 in Scotland." 



Genus THAUMANTIS (anta h p. 77). 

 2, Thaumantis noureddin (aniM, p. 78.) 



The following interesting observation relating to the apparent Btridnlation of the species 

 was snii home to me frora Singapore by Capt. Gudfery. " Our i-vming in a broad grassy path 

 after having shot a 1 mouse- deer/ I watched a pair of Thaumantis noureddm playing together as 

 they circled round each other. I noticed that one, presumably the male, in his flight around 

 the other produced a most curious cracking or rattling noise. This immediately struck ray 

 attention, as I had never before heard of a butterfly capable of making any sound, except 

 perhaps the almost imperceptible flutter of its wings in the air. The noise in the present 



" Butt. lad., Dunn. A C«yl. vol. i. p. 299. f Ann. <fc Mag. Nut, Hist. ser. 5 t vol. xii. p, 85*2 (18HS). 



