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Undersifk : iuterspace between submediau aud median bars greenish cinnamon, 



wider than in the other races. Forewing : upper cell-dot minute, second absent ; 



cell-bar quite straight, continuous with submedian bars JP— (SM'), these also quite 

 straight ; discal patch R- — 51' of the same greenish cinnamon-colour as median 



band, large. Hindwing : submedian and median lines of bars wider apart than 



in the other forms of schreiber, Iicnce greenish cinnamon median very broad, 5 mm. 

 in front ; white discal band narrow, measuring 2^ mm. at S( '■ ; black discal lunnles 

 conspicuous; brownish red half-moons V — S('-and R^- M- heavy: yellow admarginal 

 spots much broader than in imilai/icus and nrhreiber; ujiper tail longer than in those 

 races (anal region of hindwing with second tail not preserved). 



Hab. Mariveles, Luzon ; one battered male in Georg Semper's collection. 



We are much indebted to Herr Semper for having lent us the only Philippine 

 specimen known. It is very interesting that Ijoth in this Philippine form and the 

 Nias form the discal patch R- — M' of the underside of the forewing is of the same 

 colour as the median band, while in the races which are geographically intermediate 

 the patch varies from chocolate to hazel brown, being here always much more reddish 

 than the median baud. 



f/'. Forewing below with median bar R- — R^ absent or feebly marked, 

 always distant from apex of cell, median band extending distad to 

 discal bars in front of Rl 



The five species* of Eulepis {hcbe, moori, ar/a, athamas,jaiysm) dealt witli in 

 the following pages has been a puzzle to lepidoi>terists. Some anthors were and are 

 inclined to regard E. jali/sus, moori, hebe, and arja as doubtfnlly distinct from 

 athamas, while others divided the five insects up into a greater number of " distinct 

 species." Mr. de Niciiville, who of all lepidopterists knows the names of the 

 Indo-Malayan butterflies best, was, in 1895, not satisfied that E. Itcbi; moori, and 

 jalysus are specifically distinct. He says {Journ. As. Soc. Beng. LXIV. p. 435. 

 n. 259), under E. jahjsus : "We have here to do with three very difficnlt species 

 [namely, moori, hebe, Jalysus], or perhaps we may say two, as C. jalysus appears to 

 be fairly constant, though I am not at all sure that it will not hereafter be found to 

 gradually merge into the two previously-named species." Mr. de Niceville then 

 proceeds to give some differential characters between moori and hebe, which, however, 

 do not hold good. In 1898 he seems to have come to another conclusion as to the 

 number of " species " in the present group of Eulepis, for he records, in co-operation 

 with Mr. Elwes, l.c. LXVI. p. 091, from Lombok, "142. Charaxes (Eulepis) athamas, 

 143. Ch. {E.) batacianus, 144. Ch. (E.) ulphius, 145. Ch. (E.) /allax,'' and from 

 Bali, " 146. Ch. (E.) moori, 147. Ch. (E.) hebe." Of these six " species " the first 

 three are all the same thing, namely the Lombok form of athumas ; the tme fallax 

 is the Java form of A', hebe, and with this .Java form the insect recorded under 

 No. 147 as hebe is identical, while the Lombok form (No. 145) is somewhat different. 

 Whether No. 146 is really moori we cannot tell, bnt we suspect it to be E. hebe 

 fallax, as the specimens kindly submitted to us for examination by Mr. Elwes were 



* The explanation of I'l. XII. in Vol. V. should read :— 



Fig. 6. N. Borne". 

 „ 7. Java. 

 .. K. Nias. 

 ,, !l. Singapore. 



