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to M forming a line that is cnrved basad: this line touches M Ijefore M-, extends a 

 little along M and joins liar M' — M', which is situated close to the base of M-, bar 

 M^ — (SM') about parallel with M', close to it, reaching (or almost reaching) discal 

 black bar M- — (SM'), bars (SM') — SM' oblique, heavy; interspace between submedian 

 and median bars bistre colour, band-like, this band extending to discal series of bars; 

 upper discal black bar extends from tlie upper end of the first median bar very 

 obliquely to C, which it reaches about middle, discal bar C — SC" begins in middle 

 of C, curves round to SC^, which it reaches 8 to mm. from tip, the other discal 

 bars Inniform, the series on the whole parallel to outer margin, slightly angled at 

 IF, bars bordered by jiale blue lines distally, followed by dark red Inniform spots 

 which are bordered distally by very indistinct black postdiscal bars ; interspace 

 between oblique costal bar and costal margin reddish brown ; submarginal area 

 white, with very thin black submarginal dots, dots R^ — M- mostly obsolete, anal 

 two or anal one larger, admarginal spots visible, liordored with tawny ochraceons 

 outside, extending into bases of tails ; marginal band bistre colour, al)out 21 mm. 

 broad, very thin at anal angle; blue streaks in tails; abdominal region up to median 

 band oversprinkled with black scattered scales. 



Length of forewiug : C, 40 mm.; SM", 27 mm. 



Cell of forewing narrow and long (17 mm.), longer than in the allied species. 



Hal/. Western China: Ni-tn, 5000 ft., May 1800, 1 c? ; Wa-ssu-kow, Jane 

 (Leech) ; Tse-ku (Oberthiir). 



The pattern of this species presents some interesting features. In the position, 

 parallel to the edge of the wing, of the postdiscal spots of the npperside and the 

 discal bars of the underside of the forewing, in the presence of red, Inniform, post- 

 discal spots on the hindwing below, and in the development of a series of postdiscal 

 black bars on the forewing below, E. posidonim is more ancestral than its allies, 

 while the large admarginal markings of the npperside of the hindwing — which 

 the describers of the species have erroneously treated as being homologous of the 

 submarginal spots of E. narcaeus, — the dots in the cell of the forewing below, the 

 obliteration of the cell-bar of the same wing, the position of costal discal bar of 

 the hindwing below, the sprinkling of black scales over the abdominal area of the 

 same wing, are specialisations which we do not find elsewliere in Enlc/jis. Though 

 the few specimens we have seen bad no white submarginal sjwts on the forewiug 

 above, and only a vestige of the last submarginal spots on the upperside of the 

 hindwing, it is probable that such (yellowish white) spots appear sometimes in this 

 sjiecies as minute dots. On receipt of more material it will perhaps also be found 

 that of the cell-bar of the forewing below there is sometimes a greater portion 

 developed, and that the abdomen is occasionally spotted white beneath from base 

 to middle. 



h-. Cell of forewing below without many black dots ; abdominal fold of 

 hindwing below without a sprinkling of black scales. 



18. Eulepis narcaeus (Nov. Zool. VI. t. VIL f. 1). Ki). 



NyiiLphalis narcaeun Hewitsuii, Kx. Butt. I., Nymph, t. 1. f. I. 4 (1854) (Chekiang). 



Clumi.res narcaenXj Butler, Joiini. Linn. Sue. Loud. XXV. p. 381. n. 80 (1 890) (^Slianghai ; Kiukiang); 



Leech, Tt: Knt. Soc. Lund. "p. 108. n. 39 (1889) (Kiukiang, apparently common) : id., Butt. 



China I. p. 12G (189.S) (throughout Eastern, Central, and Western China). 



cj. Bo<li/ ahovc olive black, abdomen often more or less extended white ; dots 

 on head and prouotnm yellowish white, those on the latter often obsolete. 



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