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A peculiar, though not very coiispicuons, loature of this insect is that the discal 

 luuiform bars of the nnilcrisicle of tlip forewiiijr are eiirved distad, the horns of the 

 Innuk's ])uintinjr liasad, while in all other species of Eiilepis they arc curved in the 

 opposite direction. We have not seen specimens from New (.'alcdouia, but there 

 is no doubt that the species occurs on the main island: the examples in British 

 collections labelled New Caledonia are probably from the Loyalty Islands, which 

 zoogeographically belong to New Caledonia. 



Ir. Median line nf bars of hindwinjr below somewhat concave, more or less 

 parallel to submedian line. 



;-). Eulepis pyrrhus (Fig. 2'^— 35). 



Piijiilio Eqiies Achietis pyrrlins Linni', .^ys(. .\(((. ed. X. p. 462. n. 24 (17.58). 

 Charuxes (Ni/mj>lialis) scnyjion/Ms. Koch, liulo-Austr. Leji. Fuuua p. 50 (1865). 



The Amboinese race i^i ih/iiIiuk was the first iiuin of ail I'.idrpi.s and Chnraxes 

 made known to science. 



J?. Head olivaceous isabella-colour or olive-black: lour white dots above, 

 a white line behind eye. Paljii creamy white, sometinies buffish, free j)ortiou of 

 up])erside l)lack. Eyes dee]i chestnut. TlKira.K above varying from olive-black 

 to white, with a white dot at each side on jironotum and another on patagium in 

 front of wing: below while or yellowish w'hite, with black stripes underneath the 

 femora; anterior tibiae and inner side of femora and of two jiosterior p.airs of tibiae 

 black. Abdomen from olive-black to white above, white or more or less lilack 

 beneath, its underside often different in the se.xes. 



Winqa above black. Forewing: a white or yellowish creamy band of variable 



width, often extended to base and, between 51- and SM-, to near outer margin, 

 entire (or nearly so) between M' and iuternal margin, between M' and SC'' broken 

 up into four spots (which are seldom obsolete), spot 11^ — R' close to apex of cell; 



a series of submarginal sjiots of same colour as band. Hindwing: white discal 



band more or less triangular, with pale glaucous blue scaling at edges, or whole 

 basal area scaled white: a series of submarginal dots wiiite or j)ale glaucous blue; 

 admarginal pale glaucous blue bars entire or iiiterruj)ted. In fresh sj)ecimens the 

 white markings are less yellowish than in worn ones, but in specimens killed too 

 soon after the emergence from the chrysalis the jiostdiscal spots of the underside 

 of the hindwing are paler than in individuals that have been at large. 



L'l'clersule varies in the dej)th of the olive-yellow tints; forewing at inner angle 

 often black or mouse-colour ; hindwing in snl)marginal, often also in abdomuial, 



region more or less drab-colour or mouse-grey. Forewing: cell-bar 3 very heavy, 



bordered white distally and proxinially; cell-bar 4 thinner than 3, generally joined 

 upon subcostals to a discocellular bar, bordered wliite jiroximally: interspace between 

 bars 3 and 4 often all white. Submedian anil median bars M' — SM- present or 

 absent; median bar H' — M' present, varying in position, often close to cell; pre- 

 ceding one always close to cell, often touching discocellular bar; median bars 

 SC — !{■ about halfway between cell and discal bars; all median bars form the 

 proximal border of white patches which correspond to those of upperside. Discal 

 bars forming a continuous line, incurved between K" and M", bordered distally 

 with milky white. Submarginal white spots as above, but shaded with milky 



