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Show 1868.] MR. A. G. BUTLER ON THE GENUS ADOLIAS. 61 1 Exp. alar. une. 2-Z-. Penang. cf, Coll. Roberts. A local representative of T. varuna. Lieut. Roberts has assured me that the nearly allied species of the Adolias group are quite constant to their localities; otherwise I should have considered this to be a variety of varuna. 5. TANAECIA VARUNA. $. Adolias varuna, Vollenhoven, Tijdschr. voor Ent. p. 195. n. 16, pl. 10. fig. 6 (1862). cf . Alee supra velut in fcemina, subtus fere velut in lutala cf • Java (Vollenhoven). Singapore, cf, B.M. This, though very closely allied to lutala, seems a good and constant species. In the collection of Lieutenant Roberts there are ten males and five females, not varying at all, from Singapore. The under surface of the wings differs considerably in the opposite sexes. 6. TANAECIA ARUNA. cf . Adolias aruna, Felder, Wien. ent. Monatschr. n. 24 (1859). cf. Adolias pardalis, Vollenhoven, Tijdschr. voor Ent. p. 197. n. 17, pl. 11. fig. 5(1862). cf , Java ( Vollenhoven) ; cf . Malacca (Felder). This seems very nearly allied to varuna. 7. TANAECIA LUTALA. Adolias lutala, Moore, Trans. Ent. Soc. p. 71, pl. 6. fig. 3 (1859). Borneo (Wallace). Borneo, cf, B.M. 8. TANAECIA TRIGERTA. cf . Adolias trigerta, Moore, Trans. Ent. Soc. London, p. 72, pl. 5. fig. 2(1859). Java (Moore). Java, cf $, B.M. The third joint of the palpi in this insect is very short, but needlelike as in the other species. 9. TANAECIA PELEA. cf. Papilio pelea, Fabricius, Mant. Ins. p. 53. n. 523 (1787). cf. Adoliaspalguna, Moore, Trans. Ent. Soc. London, p. 70, pl. 6. fig. 1 (1859). 2 • Coloribus fere maris, alis autem forma et magnitudine lutalae cf. "In India" (Fabricius); cf, Java (Moore). Java, $, B.M. 10. TANAECIA PULASARA. cf 2 • Adolias pulasara, Moore, Trans. Ent. Soc. London, p. 71, (cf) pl. 6. fig. 3(1859). Malacca, Singapore, Penang (Moore). Malacca, India, 5, B.M. I have examined eight specimens of both sexes, taken by Lieut. Roberts in Malacca. The species appears scarcely to vary, although one male individual in this collection has the external area of all the wings unusually white. |