Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal Part II—Natural Science 1891

For whereas a slight tincture of Muhammadan civilization leading to the entire loss of the native product has mad© the people of the Malay Peninsula Sumatra and Borneo the most uninteresting of all the sons of men and only the minutest differences distinguish the natives of Penang from those of.lacassar fifteen hundred miles away every little island east of Java has an astonishing wealth [...] Masu is the Olympus of the Sumbanese regarded as the original home of their ancestors and the place whither their own souls shall go after death.f West of Pada Dalung the country again rises and beyond L6wa Paka (01(1 L6wa the original demesne of the present king of L6wa who now owns all the middle part of the interior plateau) and the sources of the Kamb6ra lies another cold country " pro [...] And the peace-strings knit about it for the blade was fain of death And 'tis ill to show such edges to the broad blue light of day Or to lot the hall-glaro light thorn if yo list not play the play." The KambeSra language is understood over the greater part of tho island but Gaura and Laura in the west have languages of their own and the Memboro dialect is very distinct. [...] Hindwing with four whit© streaks occupying the greater part of the cell two goosized elongate quadrate markings at the base of the spaces between the upper subcostal and the radial vein small spots beyond the cell below the radial vein and above the lower median narrow whitish streaks in the submedian space and two in the internal space. [...] Forewing with an irregular series of seven small white outediscal spots the first three subapical cordate separated by veins the fourth and fifth beyond the line of the others the fifth minute the sixth and seventh in the median spaces distinct equal the upper elongate ; an obscure dot near the base of the upper median space.