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FASCICULI MALATENSES 
Copera margsnipes, (Ramb.) 
2 £ , 6 9 . 
These specimens undoubtedly belong to the marginipes group. The 
upper anal appendages of the male are very short. The end of segment eight 
and segments nine and ten are white, or bluish-white. Five of the females 
are of the lacteola type, but the sixth, fortunately taken in copula with one of 
the males at Mabek in July, is certainly a virago form. The remaining five 
females, all of which seem immature, are of the white lacteola form. One 
female is from Jarum, the rest from Mabek. Are the white females merely 
immature specimens ? The male is described as follows : — ‘ Head and thorax 
velvety black, marked with pale emerald-green ; abdomen very dark grey with 
pale blue tip, and rings of the same colour at the joints. Tegs canary-coloured, 
very conspicuous in flight.’ The female taken with the male is coloured much 
the same save that the pale blue and emerald-green markings are replaced by 
dirty white. 
If the white females are immature forms it is curious that so many more 
of them should have been secured. 
Copera. atomaria.* Selys. 
Kelantan (Laidlaw : 02) 
Copera ciliata. Selys. 
One male of this very handsome species from Gedong, Batang Padang, 
Perak, taken in January. It agrees closely with a male from Sumatra described 
by Selys [’86], but is a trifle larger. Abdomen, 34 mm. ; hind-wing, 18 mm. 
The epistome is white, and the rest of the head is perhaps best described as 
whitish-yellow with the vertex in the neighbourhood of the ocelli black, with 
also two large black marks a little behind these and to the sides of them ; 
from these black marks an extension runs back to the black post-ocular spaces. 
Thorax very dark-brown, with two paler lateral bands on either side. 
Abdominal segments nine and ten blue, the upper pair of anal appendages 
yellowish-white, conical, directed rather upwards, as long as the tenth segment ; 
lower pair twice as long, curved downwards at their extremities, their distal 
halves black. Legs white, with black spines and tarsi ; the two hinder pairs 
of tibias dilated. Articulations of femurs and tibias black. 
LEGION PROTONEURA 
Protosticta foersteri.* Laidlaw [:02] 
4 adult. 
[Abdomen, 38 mm., hind-wing, 17^ mm. Neuration as in the female. 
Head dull black, the basal two-thirds of the rhinarium shining, the rest 
of the rhinarium and the upper lip pale yellow a little bluish. Extreme 
