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R HO PALO CERA MALAY AN A 



Additional Hab. — Malay Peninsula; Penang (Biggs — coll. Drst.) ; Province Wellesley (Birch) ; Perak 

 (KunstL — Calc. Mus.) ; Sungei Ujong (Dura ford — coll. Diet.) ; Singapore (Kerr — colL Dist.).— Borneo; 

 Sandakan (coll, Pryer). 



From information contained in a letter Bent me by Mr. J. E. Birch, this species appears 

 to be not uncommon in some parts of Province Wellesley in the month of December. 



Genus HESTINA (to follow HrcouraAS). 



Hestitut, Weetwood, Duuiema, sect. 6, Gen. Diurn. Lep. p. 281 (1850). 



This genua may be synopticaiiy separated from Hypalimmzj with which it has considerable affinity, 

 by the character of the cells of both wings being open and cot closed by a disco-cellular nerrule. 



The distribution of this genus appears to be focus sed in Northern India, and it is also 

 found in China. 



1. Hestina nama. (Tab. XLIIL, Eg, 9 <? ), 



Doubleday. Ann. Sat. Hist, xvi. p. '232 (184S); Doub. k Hew. Gen. Diura. Lep. t. 89, f. 2 



ihstina nama, De Nic. J, A. S. Beng. vol. l. p. 50, n* 25 (1881) ; ibid. vol. Li. p. 68 (1882). 



Male. Anterior wings above very dark indigo-blue, with the following pale bluish markings :— a basal 

 streak in cell, followed by two spots, and two other similar spots at end of cell, a curved discal series of six 

 linear spots placed between the nervules, the lowermost longest and duplex ; beyond these are an irregular 

 cluster of spots, with a distinct submarginal series, basal two-thirds of inner margin pale bluish. Posterior 

 wings creamy with a bluish tinge, the neuratiou and a broad outer margin castaneous, the last containing 

 s 1 1 l j 3 i. ■ dark spots which an' inwardly iniLi^iiiud by BOfltie Small pulo creamy spots, extreme outer margin 

 sublunulate and paler in hue. Anterior wings beneath as above, but the ground colour of the apical area 

 ferruginous ; posterior wiugs beneath as above, but paler, and with the outer sublunulate spots creamy 

 white and with three somewhat large subapical spots of the same colour. Body above dark indigo-blue ; 

 head and anterior nortion of pronotum spotted with creamy-white, lateral margins of pronotum pale 

 Uuish-grey ; body beneath thickly spotted with creamy-white; abdomen with a lateral stripe of the same 

 colour on each side ; legs streaked with creamy-white. 



Exp. wings, S » 85 to 90 millim. 



Hau. — Continental India; Sikkim (de Nic.).— Malay Peninsula; Perak (Egerton— coll. Diet.). 



The exertions of Mr. W. Egerton have enabled me to add this butterfly to the list of 

 species composing onr rhopaloeerous fauna. My collection contains male specimens only, and 

 Mr. tie Niceville narrates his collecting experiences in Sikkim with reference to this species as 

 11 males only taken on the lower hills. On the wing it much resembles Danau tytia" * 



Genus CBTHOSIA (antea, p. 170). 



4. Cethosia biblis. (Tab. XXXVIII., fig. 3 <f .) 



Popitio BikU*, Drury, 111. Ex. Eut. i, t. 4, f. 2 (1773) ; Cram. Pap. Ex. ii. t. 176, A, B (1779). 

 Ahnonia SywWMw, p„ Hiibn. Vera. bek. Sclunett. p. -Hi, u. 421 (1816). 

 Ctttontt IJihtimit Godt. Enc. mth. bu p. 248, n, 12 (1810). 



< -vtlwrni lliliiis, Horsf. & Mooro, Cat. Lep. Mas. E. I. C. vol. i. p. 163, n. 817 (1857) ; JDe Sic. J. A. S. Deng, 

 vol. l. p. 50, o. 14 (1881). 



* This of course Joes not necessarily imply that one species miniies the other, though such is probably the case. In 

 funning these likely conclusions one is reminded of the apothegm of Bacon lt The Lord St. Albans, who was not over hasty 

 to raise theories, but proceeded slowly by experiments, was wont to say to some philosophers, who would not go hw pace, 

 1 Uentlemen, nature is a labyrinth, in which the very haste you move with will make you lose your way/ " 



