( 564 ) 



remark " Eg. 3(i " = Ego, species nova trcdecima et sexta, iitul irom the synonyms 

 behind " Eulepis" and further from the fact that this Eulepis is in Billl)erg's classi- 

 fication a genus of" Zephyriides," corresponding to our Li/cncniduc and Kri/einiclae 

 (including a Hes])eriid), it is clear that Billberg's atliamas was in Billberg's opinion 

 a new species, and certainly not the Nyniplialid nthumn^ figured by Drury. 

 Billberg's name is a nondescript, has therefore no defined meaning, and hence is no 

 generic term ; the word "Eulepis" was accordingly free in 1.S81 to be employed in 

 zoology as a generic name for the Nymphalids we are dealing with. The " author" 

 of Eulepis is of course Moore, not Billberg or Dalman ; not tlie coiner of the word, 

 but the publisher of it as a defined scientific^ term, is the " author.'" 



The species of Eulepis can be separated into three groups according to the 

 development of the pattern, represented resjjectively by pt/rr/ats, eudamippus, and 

 (lelphis ; each group can of course be subdivided, down to the varieties. 



In the first group (I.) the two bars of tlie cell of the forewing below have 

 preserved their original character as transverse bars, both being heavy and not inter- 

 rupted : the (submedian and) median bars H' — SM' of the forewing are not continuous. 



The second group (II.) comprises the species in which cell-bar 3 of the 

 forewing has partly or totally become obliterated, and in which the median bars 

 R' — SM'are more or less contiiuious, forming tlie outer border of a band. 



The third group (III.) contains only one species, i^elphis, which has cell-bar :! 

 interrupted as in group II., but has preserved an ancestral character not found in 

 grou]) II. and met witli only in one generalized form of group 1. (namely K. t/amma); 

 namely, while in gronjjs I. and II. bar M' — M- of the hindwiug runs more or 

 less in the direction (jf M-, forming a very small angle with this vein, the bar is in 

 (Idphi.s more transverse, as it certainly was originally in the ancestral forms of Eulepis 

 and Chtiidxi's, and as it still is iu some C/inriu-fs. Moreover, in group II. bar D" 

 of the hindwing is always wanting, whereas it is found iu /lelpliis and in a number 

 (if forms of group I. Median and snl)mediau bars M' — M" of the forewing, forming 

 in ildphis generally a ring, are here more distal than in the species of group II., a 

 position which is found in the species of Charaxes with a more generalized jiattern. 

 These characters of ilrlphis do not admit its derivation from grouj)s I. and II. ; in 

 other respects the pattern of rfrlp/iis is so highly specialized that groups I. and II- 

 cannot have developed frnm a (A /jJtis-tike ancestor. Hence we have to consider 

 iklpkis as having indejieiidently d.",elciped from the cummcm root of all three groups 

 of Enh'pis. 



T. Forewing below with cell-bars :i and 4 (•ora])lete ; median bars H^ — SM" not 

 forming a continuous line, median bars SC- — U' j)reseMt. 

 A. Submedian and median lines of bars nf liiiidwing parfillel (or nearly so), not 

 merged together at M. 

 a. Tostdiscal intersjiaces of hindwing, at least the last three, above 

 occupied by creamy or rntiius red spots. 



I. Eulepis caphontis (Fig. K. Ka, c?). 



Chnraxea caphonlis Hcwitaon, Ex. Butt. III. Charaxes t. 3. f. 14. 15 (18(')3) (Pt. Deni.ion, 

 AuBtralia, loc. frr.): Macleay, Tr. Eiil. Sor. .V. .S. Wnles, I. Prnccetl. p. 2~. note (1805) (Fiji, 

 not Pt. Denison) ; Butl., /'. Z. 6'. p. 032. n. 38 (1865) (Fiji) : id., I.e. p. 280. n. 39 (1874) 

 (Fiji); id., .Irmni. Linn. Sw. Loud. XXV. p. 388. n. 108 (189.')) (Pt. Denisen. .\uatralia, loc. en:). 



6. Body above olive-black, below greyish broccoli-brown, underside of jialpi 



