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and slightly fringed with hah’ behind towards extremity, 
the 3rd rather long, smoothly scaled and somewhat acuminate 
at extremity ; frons smooth, with ridge of hair above ; eyes 
large, round ; antennae of male with bristles and cilia ; thorax 
clothed almost entirely with hair and without crests ; fore 
and mid tibiae moderately fringed with hair, the mid tibiae 
smoothly scaled ; abdomen with slight rough hair at base of 
dorsum but without crests. Fore wing with the apex 
rounded, the termen evenly curved and not crenulate ; 
veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from below upper 
angle ; 7 from angle ; 8, 9, 10 stalked ; 11 from cell. Hind 
wing with the cell about half the length of wing ; veins 3, 4 
from angle ; 5 fully developed from well above angle ; 6, 7 
from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base 
only. 
(Terms RHESALA. 
Type. 
Rhesala, Walk. xv. 1770 (1858) i mparata, Walk. 
Magulaba, Walk, xxxiv. 1126 (1865) mcestalis, Walk. 
Hingula, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 180 (1882) imparata, Walk. 
Rimnlia, Saalm. Lep. Madag 1 . p. 483 (1891). non descr. mcesfnlis , Walk. 
Rhesala malayica, n. sp. 
Head, thorax, and abdomen chocolate-brown slightly 
tinged with grey ; palpi with the extremities of 2nd and 3rd 
joints white ; pectus and ventral surface of abdomen whitish 
iiTorated with brown ; tarsi black-brown ringed with white. 
Fore wing chocolate- brown slightly tinged with grey ; an 
indistinct curved blackish antemedial line ; orbicular except 
above and inner side of reniform defined by white, con- 
fluent, the former elliptical, the latter with slight whitish 
outline above and on outer side, round ; an oblique black 
striga from middle of costa ; postmedial line black-brown, 
oblique to discal fold, then erect and interrupted at the 
veins, some white points beyond it on costa ; subterminal 
line indistinct, diffused, dark, slightly defined on outer side 
in parts by whitish, incurved at discal and submedian fold ; 
a small black-brown subapical spot defined below by white ; 
a lunulate deep chocolate-brown terminal line and fine white 
line at base of cilia, which are chocolate-brown mixed with 
white. Hind wing chocolate-brown slightly tinged with grey ; 
a large elliptical discoidal spot defined at sides by white ; a 
black-brown postmedial line slightly interrupted at the 
veins ; a lunulate deep chocolate-brown terminal line defined 
on inner side by a fine white line ; a fine white line at base 
of cilia which are chocolate-brown mixed with white. Under- 
side of fore wfing with a blue or cupreous red gloss, the costal 
edge white to beyond middle, the postmedial line continuous 
