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Show lr:Jr/.J LEPIDOPTERA FROM FORMOSA. EUPLCEA, Fabricius. 7. EUPLCEA SWINHOEI. Euplrea 8winhoei, Wallace, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1866, p. 358. A pair of this beautiful and rare species. SALPINX, Hubner. 8. SALPINX HOBSON I, n. sp. 811 o. Allied to S. vestigiata, but darker and more brilliantly shot with purple, primaries with the submarginal blue spots of about four times the size; costal spot smaller, elliptical interno-median spot similar; secondaries considerably darker, excepting at anal angle, as dark and brilliantly purple-shot as the primaries, costal area greyish sericeous; cuneiform subcostal patch clearer and brighter in colour; three submarginal spots towards the apex, the uppermost one white, the two others bright blue: expanse 3 inches 6 lines. A single fine male. This species is, at first sight, so manifestly distinct from S. 'lJestigiata that I feel no hesitation in characterizing it from a single example. SATYR IN.lE, Bates. 9. MELANITIS ISM ENE. Papilio ismene, Cramer, Pap. Exot. 1, pI. 26. A, B (1775) . Several specimens. ELYMNIIN.lE, Kirby. 10. ELYMNIAS NIGRESCENS. Elymnias nig1'escens, Butler, P. Z. S. 1871, p. 520, pI. xlii. fig. 1. One shattered example. This is the common Elymnias of Malacca. NYMPHALIN.lE, Bates. 11. ATHYMA ZOROASTRES, n. sp. Allied to A. cama, from Silhet, the male without the rufous discoidal streak in primaries; the white belt of secondaries broader above, below slightly contracted from the middle to the abdominal mar~in; ground-colour below altogether greyer, the pearly spots and belt of secondaries narrower and less clear; female above with all the pale tawny belts of little more than half the width, below with the same differences as in the male: expanse, 0 2 inches 3 lines, ~ 3 inches. A pair. 12. ATHYMA LEUCOTHOE. Papilio leucothoe, Linnreus, Mus. Lud. VIr. p. 292 (1764). Common. |