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orseis Hew. (92 e), was described from Sumatra and according to Martin is a true denizen of the forest orseis. 
and like so many wood butterflies has a violet blue gloss. On the upperside of the hindwing near the mar¬ 
ginal border the has a large dull velvet androconia. The $ is notably larger with dull grey-black upper sur¬ 
face. •— nautilus Btlr. is a smaller and on the underside somewhat paler local race from the Malady Peninsula nautilus. 
spreading up to Tenasserim and the Naga Hills in Assam. ■ — borneensis Fruhst. displays brighter colours and a bomeensis. 
lighter violet than the typical orseis Hew. from Malacca and Sumatra. The peculiar black scentsca.les of the hind¬ 
wing are much smaller and are composed of two nearly distinct spots which in orseis are largely confluent. The 
underside is more richly coloured, all lines and bands sharper and the eyespots smaller. The basal half of both 
wings is washed out and pale yellow instead of gray-brown. It is found all over Borneo. — orsina Fruhst. <$. orsina. 
Upperside: deeper violet than specimens from Sumatra and Malacca, not so lustrous however as bomeensis. 
The eyespots all bigger than in any of the other orseis races being almost as big as in Myc. dohertyi Elwes. The 
median bands are broader, the eyespots however more narrowly bordered with gray than in the typical orseis. 
The basal region of both wings reddish instead of blackish brown, rather resembling in this respect the Borneo 
butterfly. The subbasal tortuous black line of both wings is much finer and is even hard to discern. Mas. — 
flavotincfa Stgr. $ upperside somewhat duller than bomeensis $, characterized by a broad antemarginal yellow- flavotimla. 
ish band on forewing. The prevailing colour of underside is yellowish instead of gray, the longitudinal band 
with more violet and the distal area of both wings has yellow instead of gray submarginal bands. The island 
of Palawan, in January, rare. Doherty took an allied form in South-Celebes about which I can only say that 
they suggest a Westmalayan element in the Celebes fauna, and at the same time one of those rare species that 
Celebes has in common with Borneo not occurring jointly in Java. 
Group IV. Upperside forewing with scent scale cavity in the submedian, generally covered with a hair pencil. 
Underside of forewing with androconial pocket the sack of which is in contact with the scent hairs of upperside. 
IT in (twin g as in groups II and III. 
a) Without subapical scent area of upper side forewings. (Virapa, Gareris, Dalapa, Moore). 
$ with extraordinarily broad discocellulars (4—5 mm) on hindwings, owing to the stem of radial on further side of 
subcostal being extremely concave. One species (sudra Fldr.) has moreover the base of the subcostal and the radials of fore¬ 
wings except the third exterior enlarged and provided with a deep groove formed by fold. The form of the cell is quite changed 
by the'peculiarly bent-down radial seem. The <$<$ alone possess this very special attribute, the ?? being deprived of all these 
characteristics are connected by the discocellular formation to non -perseus species with inbent discocellulars. 
To this group belong the showiest species provided most profusely with secondary sexual distinctions, 
Mo anaxias being the best known. They and their nearest kin live in India and the island regions of the Anda¬ 
mans and Nicobar. — anaxias Hew. originally described from the Nilgheries and named from an intermediate anaxias. 
form is the only species having a white transversal band on un. s. of f. w. reminding us of Lethe rohria F., it 
is very like deficiens (92 f), but has white bands more than twice as broad, and smaller eyespots, the $ has a 
broad violet-shot longitudinal band. The form without eyespots is but little different from the rainy season 
form. — aemate subsp. nov. is bigger than anaxias from Sikkim with yellowish instead of white bands on up. aemate. 
s. of f. w. and a broad light brown distal border on both wings. Burmah, Tenasserim. The Malay penin¬ 
sular race described by Distant from a Perak type, bisaltia subsp. nov., is allied to my species from Assam, bisaltia. 
and these differ from the Sikkim butterflies, being smaller with broader bluer subapical bands on f. w. Eyespots 
un. s. more showy, violet longitudinal bands and bordering of same enlarged. — radza Moore from Andaman radza. 
is a distinct race with bluntly terminated transversal bands of f. w. and a big broad yellow bordered eyespot 
on the same. Un. s. more yellow brown and the remainder of a white median line on h. w. —• mani Doll, from mani. 
Nicobar is unknown to me, the subapical band of f. w. is said to be more conspicuous than in radza. H. w. 
with a broad violet discal line, anaxias is found more in the lowlands but unlike the Birma race rises as high 
as 2000 m. Probably appears the whole year round, 
M. adantsoni Wats, is a very rare species up till now only reported from Upper Burmah but has been adamsoni. 
taken by me in Tonkin. Up. s. with eyespots which are faintly visible on un. s. The $ has a short white sub¬ 
apical streak on f. w. less oblique than in anaxias and bent off vertically to the rear. Upper Burmah. — defi- deficiens. 
ciens Fruhst. (92 f) somewhat Like fig. 36 PI. 7 of Distant’s Rhopaloc. Malayana, but the colouring appears 
darker because the subapical band of f. w. is narrower. This band too runs farther in and turns towards the 
apex of cell. Un. s.: antemarginal bands paler and broader, eyespots more distinctly pupilled. The f. w. band 
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