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imOPALOCERA MALAYAKA* 



of abdominal margin and a larger one on costal border near the apex ; a narrow brown diseoeellular streak 

 and a discal series of irregular- eh aped spots, a marginal row of blackish spots bordered within by a sinuous 

 line and outwardly by a linear marginal line, the third apot from anal angle large and blackest. Palpi 

 black above; legs with prominent black bands; antenna) black with white annular bands." 

 Exp, wings, " 3 b, ? 1 inch." 



Hab. — Ceylon; Kaudy (Moore). — Malay Peninsula; Malacca <coll. Staudinger). 



Mr. Moore describes tbe larva of this specie s as " light green, vermiform, middle segments 

 swollen. Pupa thick, blunt at the ends. Feeds on Sapindacese/ 1 



Although at Kandy M. thwaitesi is reported as 11 very common and easy to capture,' 1 * 

 one specimen only from the Malay Peninsula has up to this time passed through my hands. 



Genus LYC^SNEBTHES (antea, p. 232). 

 % Lycaenesthes bengal en si s. (Tab, XLTY,, fig. 9 <? .) 



Lyamestht* bengaUtuit, Mooro, Proc. ZooL Soc. 1865, p. 778, tAl t 1 9 ; de ftic. J. A. S. Bong. vol. h. p. G2 (1882). 

 Psetulotlip&at benytdetisu, do $io. J, A* S, Beng, vol. In p. 5a (1881). 

 PtetuladipiUs bewjahmsis, Dnice, Proc. ZooL Soc 1878, p. 351, n. 2. 



"Male* Upperside dark purple-bine, externa* margin defined by a narrow suffused black line; 

 a small indistinct black spot at anal angle ; abdominal margin brown. Underside pale greyish -brown ; 

 fonwitj^ will] a short transverse double white lino at the extremity of the cell, enclosing the discal veinlet, 

 beyond which are a transverse discal chain-like white band and an outer indistinct brownish submarginal 

 ami a narrow white marginal line ; htndwing with basal, diseoidal, and a curved discal series of chain -like 

 white bands; an indistinct inwardly angled, double-Iunulated, white marginal line; a black apot bordered 

 above with orange-red near anal angle of exterior margin ; a small white-encircled black spot on middle 

 of abdominal margin. Head above brown; eyes encircled with white. Palpi above and beneath brown, 

 at the sides white. Thorax, body, and legs beneath white. 11 



"Female. Upperside pale purple-brown, with suffused bluish patch at the base; exterior margin 

 suffused with darker brown; hindwing with* an inner narrow white exterior marginal line. Underside as 

 in male." 



Exp. wings, M 1J inch." 



Has. — Continental India; Bengal (Moore); Sikkiin (de Nic). — Malay Peninsula; Malacca (coll, 

 Staudinger; Biggs — coll. Dlst.}. — Borneo (Druee). 



3, Lycsenesthes tessellata. {Tab. XLIL, fig, 13 3 ; Tab. XLIY., fig. 21 2 .) 

 Siphanda Ttssdlata, Moore, Proc. ZooL Soc. 1874, p. 572, t. CO, f, 0. 

 Ltjcmmlhe* athwps t Disk Ann, & Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 5, vol. xviL p. 253 (1886). 



Male, Wings above dark violaceous-blue; wings beneath greyish mottled with purplish. Anterior 

 wings with the following dark fuscous markings : — a broad basal streak beneath costal nervnre extending 

 to about middle of cell, where it is joined to a large spot which crosses and extends beneath cell ; a largo 

 discocellular Bpot at end of cell ; a curved fascia between end of cell and outer margin, extending from 

 tbe second subcostal nervule to the second median nervule ; a somewhat similar fascia extending from 

 second median nervule near end of cell to near inner margin ; paler narrow marginal and submarginal 

 fasciae containing a large, round, dark spot between the second and third median nervules, Posterior 

 wings with the following dark markings s — four basal spots, two large spots beyond cell divided by the 

 upper subcostal nervule, a marginal series of smaller dark spots and paler discal spots, of which the most 



* Lep. CeyL vol. i. p. 7'2 (1881), 



