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other, more or less rounded ; sj)ot at internal margin mostly wanting ; spot 



(SM') — 8M- also sometimes absent. Hindwing : longitudinal black streak heavy; 



submarginal greenish white spots mostly sc'i)arated, sometimes the upper five 

 incomi)letely merged together ; spot M' — M° always isolated, the spots as wide as, 

 or smaller in diameter than, the proximal portion of the black disco-marginal area, 

 sometimes the spots only 1^ mm. in diameter ; admarginal spots 11^— M^, if present, 

 small ; anal one yellow. 



On the intdersidc the dark bands and spots ,are generally lieavier than in the 

 spring form, the last median bars near abdominal margin seldom absent. 



Length of forewing, S 36 — 43 mm. 

 )j II II ^ 47 ,, 



Occurs from June to August ; 32 J cj, 2 ? ? in Tring Museum. 



Hab. The species is found in both forms from the coast to Mnpin, and as far 

 north as Shanghai. The southern limit of its range is not known ; the species 

 extends probably into Tonkin. 



BIr. Lewis, I.e., records E. narcaeiis from Japan ; if the species should really 

 occur in Southern Japan (which we do not believe), the Jajiauese specimens will, 

 no donbt, be diiFerent from the Chinese individuals. 



D. Submedian and median bars of the underside not continuous, forming some rings. 

 r.». Eulepis delphis (Figs. 4i), 41, 42). 



Charaxes delphis Doubleday, Ann. Sur. Ent. Frunce (2) I. p. 217. t. 7 c? (1843). 



(?. Head, pronotum and anterior portion of mesonotum pale olive, rest of 

 uppersiele of body creamy white, but black colour of chitin of mesothorax generally 

 shining through, upperside of palpi brownish black, four dots on head, a line behind 

 each eye, a dot at each side of pronotum white. 



Underside : white, stripes on breast beneath femora, upperside of anterior tibia, 

 middle legs, ujiperside of posterior femora and bases of tarsal segments more or less 

 extended black. 



Wings, upperside: yellowish white. Forewing : a black apical area, widest 



in front, very narrow behind, varying somewhat in extent in the different subspecies 

 and also individually ; it seldom reaches upper angle of cell along SC*-', interspace 

 between cell and inner edge of black area at least 4 mm. in front of R", inner edge 

 of black area more or less deeply incised upon veins, the partitions of the area 

 between 11^ and M'- mostly strongly convex discally, partition M' — M" 3 — 10 mm. 

 long in fold M'— M-, partitions M'- — SM- short, mostly separated from each other, 

 and sometimes also from partition M'— M-, the last of those two sometimes obso- 

 lescent ; the white scaling extends along (SM') close to margin, expands here and 

 separates more or less complete partition (SM')— SM' from edge of wing, in some 

 specimens this admarginal white scaling extends to M- ; before R" a black spot is 

 sometimes separated from the apical area; a black disco-cellular bar is in many 

 specimens vestigial ; the black area includes mostly one postdiscal, yellowish white, 

 spot of variable si/.r stiinding before R', sometimes, especially in the North Indian 

 form, there is another, smaller dot behind it, or even a third behind R-, in a few 

 specimens the postdiscal spots arc altogether wanting ; no submarginal spots ; 



costal edge of wing from base to apical area more or less shaded with brown. 



Hindwing: all yellowish white, abdominal fold pnrer white (if not greasy); a series of 



