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Dalima delineata Warren
   
Metoxydia delineata Warren, 1894, Novit. zool. 1: 442.


Dalima delineata


Diagnosis.
This and the next species have similar facies, but D. mjoebergi is distinguished by the strong tail to the hindwing between Rs and M1.

Geographical range. Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra, Borneo.

Habitat preference. The species is not common, a few individuals having been taken recently in the upper montane forest zone of G. Mulu, Sarawak (1780m), and Bukit Retak, Brunei (1468m). There is also a specimen from Samarinda in Kalimantan. Some of the specimens attributed to the next species for G. Kinabalu by Holloway (1976) proved to be delineata.

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