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spaces not n curly reaching the bounding nervules of the interspaces 

 they occupy, ffindmng entirely unglossed with blue; the fuscous- 

 brown ground-colour becoming Lighter towards the outer margin ; 

 extreme outer margin ferruginous. Undersi de, both wings castaneous, 

 sprinkled with purplish and white. Forewing with the white mott- 

 lings concentrated into an oblique discal band, which commences on 

 the costa at a short distance from the extreme apex of the wing and 

 ends at the first median nervule, where the speckles are more scattered 

 and larger, and with the mottling extended one-fourth along the 

 costa from the apex ; inner margin dull fuscous, extending on to the 

 disc beyond the oblique discal mottled band and ending in a point 

 at the third median nervule. Hindwing divided into two equal well- 

 defined areas, the basal area rich castaneous sparsely sprinkled with 

 dull purplish, the outer area so thickly sprinkled with purplish that 

 the castaneous ground-colour is almost obliterated ; a large oval pale 

 ochreous spot in the middle of the upper subcostal interspace ; an 

 outer-discal or submarginal series of five minute black dots inwardly 

 marked with a minute white dot, one in each interspace. 



Closely allied to E. penangd, West wood, from the Malay Penin- 

 sula, from which it differs in the apex of the forewing being more 

 produced, the outer margin less scalloped, the apex of the hindwing 

 also more produced, the outer margin considerably truncated and 

 entire ; in the markings of the costa of the forewing and of the 

 outer margin of both wings on the upperside being ferruginous, 

 instead of concolorous with the rest of the wings as in E. penanga; in 

 the forewing having four instead of five spots, owing to the posterior 

 one being absent ; in the two anterior spots being shorter, wider, 

 and conjoined instead of w r ell separated ; in the hindwing being 

 entirely unglossed with blue, whereas in E. penanga it is strongly 

 blue-glossed ; in the markings of the underside of both wings being 

 more variegated, and in the presence of the large subcostal spot of 

 the hindwing which is not to be found in E. penanga* 



* This is not always the case, as Mr. Distant describes and figures this spot in 

 describing E. penanga, vide his Rhop. Malay-, p- 63, n. 5, pi. vii, fig. 6, male (1882), and 

 it is shewn also in Mr- Hewitson's figure of the species (Melanitis mehida, Hewit- 

 son, Ex. Butt., vol. iii, Melanitis pi. i, figs. 2, 3, male (1803), though it is entirely 

 absent in the three specimens of this species T possess from the Malay Peninsula. 



