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JOURNAL

OF THE

ASIATIC SOCIETY OF BENGAL.


Vol. LXIII. Part II.—NATURAL SCIENCE.


No. I.—1894.


L—On new 07' little-known Butter/lies from the Lula-Malayan region.—

By LIOXBL DE NICE'VILLE, F. E. S., C. M. Z. S., (Ste.

(With Plates 1, II, III, IV and V. )

[Received February 10th r—B/end March 7th, 1894.]

Family NYMPHALIDIE.

Subfamily SATYRINIE.

l. MmALESIs (8111011) MAIA, n. sp., Plate I, Figs. 1, d ; 2, Q .

HABITAT: Battak Mountains, N. . Sumatra.

EXPANSE: 6‘, 1'8 to 1'); 9 , 2'1 inches.

DESCRIPTION : MALE. Uppmsnm, 170th wings black, glossed with viuous in some lights; a narrow WEVed marginal line. Forming with the costa, apex broadly, and outer margin decreasineg paler ; a small black white-pupilled ocellus in the anterior discoidal interspace, sometimes with a smaller ocellus attached to it posteriorly; a large round black spot in the first median interspace, outwardly bounded by a pale line. Hindwing with a broad whitish patch on the costs. at the base of the wing; the outer mm‘gin narrowly pale. UNDERSIDE, both wings fuscous ; the outer margin bears a narrow waved black line, then a waved narrow ochreous (in some specimens violet) line, then a nearly straight. oohreous (or violet) line, the extreme margin narrowly black. FM'ewiny with the apex washed with ochre-nus ; a subapical black ocellug,

sometimes with a second smaller one attachedm it posteriorly, and a J. H. 1