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
