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median ones of hindwing also partly absent or only vestigial ; type with a rather 

 broad pale bine distal border to the band of the hindwing above. 



41. E. arja f. temp. arja. 



Band in $ about 9 or 10 mm. wide at M- of forewing, broader iu ? , generally 

 wider than in the specimens of E. athamas of the same month. There occur 

 individuals with the band much narrower on both wings, the blue scaling at the 

 outer side of the band of tlie hindwing above ratlier pronounced, and the anal 

 admarginal spot blue or nearly blue. These individuals (c? 6) are found together 

 with ordinary examples of arja, and are known from Sikkim, the Khasia and Naga 

 Hills, and from North Cachar ; therefore they do not represent either a seasonal or 

 a local race ; but the appearance of such individuals may depend on climatical 

 conditions— probably an excess of heat. A specimen of this form in the British 

 Museum is labelled " Sikkim, May 1889, S. C. Dudgeon"; we doubt the correctness 

 of the date, as our May individuals of E. arja and E. athamas approach the broad- 

 banded spring race. The name under which these aberrant individuals should be 

 known is 



a-. E. arja f. temp, arja ab. roeberi (Nov. Zool. V. t. X. f. 6, tj). 



Eulepis athamas var., Moore, Lep. Ind., II. p. 255. t. 184. f. le (1896) (Khasia Hills). 

 Charaxes arja roeberi Fruhstorfer, Eiit. Xachr. XXIV. p. 59 (1898) (Khasia Hills). 

 Charaxes aeolvs id. (Rober in litt.), I.e. 

 Eulepis arja roeberi id., /.c, p. 60. 



Ilab. From Sikkim to Tenasserim ; not found iu N.W. India and iu S. India. 



The habits of this species are the same as those of E. athamas ; it is in most 

 places not quite so common as the latter, though occasionally the reverse is the case. 

 The larva and pupa are unknown. 



12. Eulepis athamas (Nov. Zool. V. t. X. f. 1 to 5 and 7 to 11 ; t. XI. f. 1 to 12). 



Papilio Eqties Acliiriis athamas Drury, ///. Ex. Ins. I. p. 5. t. 2. f. 4 & Index (1773) (China). 



S ? . Head and pronotum bistre brown, mesonotum more greenish olive, slightly 

 glossy, abdomen olive brown ; head with four creamy dots, and a line behind eves ; 

 pronotum often with a vestige of a dot at each side. Palpi beneath and middle of 

 sterna creamy buff, sides of sterna more grey, with black stripes underneath the 

 femora; underside of abdomen pale woodbrown in S, often more creamy, blackish in 

 ? ; femora black, mottled with white scales, anterior tibiae black, middle and hinder 

 tibiae and all tarsi cream colour, extreme bases of second to fifth segments of middle 

 and hinder tarsi brown; anterior femora above with creamy or huffish scaling. 



S. Wings, upperside : purplish black, slightly greenish at base, with a greenish 

 straw-yellow discal baud of variable width, occupying sometimes by far the greater 

 portion of the wing, while it is iu other forms barely 7 mm. broad at its widest 



point. Forewing : distal edge more or less deeply concave, mostly dentate, but 



often not produced at end of veins ; inner edge of discal band nearly straight or 

 slightly convex up to M', indented just in front of this vein, patch R' — M' being a 

 little shorter than that behind M', patch R^— M' rounded proximally and costally, 

 ofteu slightly triangular distally, its outer edge theu being oblique from R' to inter- 

 nervular fold 11^ — M'; outer edge of band straight, or somewhat concave between 

 veins, at right angles to internal margin or nearly so ; extreme portion of angle 



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