212 NAUSEOUS EUI'L(KIN/E. 



An examination of the figures in the illustrations (Plate V.) 

 will reveal better than any description how close these 

 resemblances are. 



The Enplceince have not so wide a geographical range 

 as some of the Danaince, being confined to the Oriental 

 and Malayan regions, but they also are characterized by a 

 repellent nauseousness, which gives them considerable 

 immunity from attack and destruction. They are an 

 exceedingly handsome sub-family, many of them having 

 large black wings spotted and lined with white, and strongly 

 suffused with a very rich deep blue, which varies in different 

 angles of light, as shot-silk does, and which sometimes 

 spreads over nearly the whole surface of the wings, 

 giving the butterflies a superb and exceedingly attractive 

 appearance. 



The Eiiplceince consist of numerous genera, including 

 Trepsichrois, Stictoplcea, Danisepa, Crastia and others. 

 Numerous species in these genera are simulated by 

 butterflies of several sub-families, including the Papilioniucc, 

 NymphalincE, Elyinniiiue, &c., and by some of the Clial- 

 cossime and Bombyciiuc amongst the moths. 



On Plate No. VI. are illustrated three pairs of the 

 Euplcemce ; TrepsicJirois Linnei, from northern India, with 

 three pairs of mimics, Elyvinias leucocyina, Isamiopsis 

 telearchus, and the moth Calaniesia uiidama, all of which 

 bear the closest resemblance to the Enplccime. On the 

 same plate are also shewn two females of another Euplcra, 

 Stictoploea binotata, with their simulators Dyctis patnoides, 

 and one of the Papilios, Isamiopsis Slateri. The similarity 

 is in all cases very striking, and it is remarkable that in the 

 first three cases mentioned above the males and females of 

 both simulated and simulating butterflies differ from each 

 other in each species, but are in all instances similar to 

 the respective males and females to which they bear so 

 near a resemblance. 



