( 2na ) 



bordered with tawny yellow or yellow-olive ; area between discal and marginal 

 bands white or greyish, in the latter case (form from Formosa) the white postdiscal 

 and submarginal spots plainly marked ; costal margin in some forms tawny olive, 



except a streak at base. Hindwing : submedian and median series of bars close 



together, parallel, interspace varying from tawny olive to orange ochraceons in the 

 various local forms, representing a band that appears as a prolongation of the 

 forewing, and extends to the disco-postdiscal black- blue-black marking jM- — SM- ; 

 the two costal bars often joined together at costal margin, in other individuals 

 divergent costad ; the discal and postdiscal bars form together a series of half- 

 moons, in which are situated blue or tawny-olive half-moons ; the series is closer 

 to onter margin behind than in front ; it is curved, or from C— M' almost straight ; 

 lunnle R' — M' about midway or at two-thirds of the way from liase of M^ to tip of 

 It', the series bordered i)roximally by a band of the same colour and nearly the 

 same width as the median band ; submarginal area white, mostly interrupted at 

 M- and (SM'), often also at M', with a series of more or less jffomineut, seldom 

 minute, submarginal, black, dots ; a deep tawny olive, or olive, marginal band, with 

 tawny ochraceons admarginal spots of variable size ; edge of wing and tails black, 

 whitish blue streaks in tails ; anal admarginal yellow spot large. 



?. Like c?, larger, forewing generally less concave outwardly; abdomen 

 beneath always black, with edges of segments partly white, and with a faintly 

 marked white middle line ; tails longer, the upper one not pointed, often some- 

 what dilated at tip ; cell of forewing sometimes nearly all black above (summer 

 form ? = warm and wet season form ?). 



Tenth tergite of abdomen of cJ somewhat bent downwards at tip and more or 

 less obviously sinuate ; the dorsal dilatation of the clasper often forming a broad 

 tooth. 



Early stages unknown. 



Length of forewing : (S, 41 — .52 mm. 

 „ „ „ ?, 49— 60 mm. 



Ilcib. Nepal to Tenasserim, China, Formosa, and the Loo C'lioo Islands. 



A specimen captured by 0. Miiller on the 2nd of July, ISSO (the only one found 

 so late in the year we have) has the black colour at the base of the forewing, 

 especially in the cell, more extended than the specimens obtained in April. As this 

 increase in the amount of black (as compared with tlie spring specimens) is in 

 accordance with the difi'erences between the spring and summer form of E. athamas, 

 it is probable that E. eiidamippus is, in North India, seasonally dimorphic. 



a. E. eudamippus eudamippus (Nov. Zool. V. t. VIII. f 1. <?). 



Charaxi's eudamippus Doubleday, Ann. Sue. Ent. I'mncc (2) I. p. 218. t. 8 cj (1843) (Silhet) : 



Butl., P. Z. S. p. G36. D. 47 (1805) (Silhet ; Assam) ; Staud., Exot. Tag/, p. 173. t. 59. ^ 



(1886) (N. India) ; Niwv., Butl. of Imlla II. p. 273. n. ,",ti6 (1886) (Sikkim, common ; Sylhet ; 



Sibsagar, Upp. Assam, Naga Hills ; Thoungyeen forests, Upp. Tenass. ; Tavoy) ; Elwcs, Ti-. 



Ent. Soc. Land. p. 367. n. 208 (1888) (Sikkim, common at low elev., April to Augnst) : Watson, 



Joum. Bombay M. H. Hoc. VI. p. 41. n. 90 (1891) (Tilin, Chin Hills, Februai-y) ; Butl, Journ. 



Linn. Snr. Loud. XXV. p. 380. n. 83 (1896) (Nepal ; Silhet ; Darjiling ; Bhutan ; Mungphu ; 



Khasia Hills ; Meetan, Burma ; Tilin Yaw ; East Pegu). 

 Nymphidis eudamip/jus, Doubleday, Westw. & Hew., Gen. Diurn. Lep. II. p. 309. n. 23 (1850) 



(Silhet) ; Kirby, Cat. Diurn. Lip. p. 271. n. 44 (1871) {cit.fals.) ; Robbe, Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg. 



XXXVI. p. 130. n. 52 (1892) (Darjiling ; Kurseong). 

 Nymphaliii cuclamippos (!), Horsfield & Moore, Cat. Lep. Juk. .Vus. E. L C. I. p. 20G. n. 420 (1857) 



(Darjiling). 



