RHOPALOCKUA MALAYAyA. 25 



F.uphm miilamux, Butl., Trans. Linn. Soc, sor. 2, Zool., vol. i., p. 535, n. 9 (1877). 



Trepskhrois iiiitldiiiiis, Butl., .Jouiu. Liiui. Soc, Zool., vol. xiv., p. 297, 3 (1878); ^Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc, 

 1878, p. 823. 



Male. Anterior wings above dark vioU^t-blue, with bright blue rctiections towards apex, and with the 

 following pale spots : — a small one between lirst and second subcostal nervules (this is sometimes absent) ; 

 one m cell before lower disco-cellular nervule, two beneath cell situate on each side of second median nervule, 

 thi-ee bejond cell di\-ided by discoidal nervules, a submargLnal series of about seven ii-regularly shaped 

 .spots, and a marginal series of very small spots which become obsolete towards apex. Tosterior wings dark 

 brown, with the costal and apical third pale bro'mi and subgranulose, and with a small pale patch in cell. 

 Underside of wings pale brown ; anterior wings spotted generally as above, but with the apical marginal 

 spots more distinct and continuous ; posterior wings with five small white discal spots, one in and near end 

 of cell, and four surrounding apical portion of cell, situated between the nervules ; a margmal series of 

 small spots of the same colour, and a submarginal series which only extends about half-way from apex (in 

 one specimen from Pro\-ince Wellesley this series is. continuous) to anal angle. Head and upper part of 

 thorax black ; head and anterior portion of thorax spotted with white ; abdomen dark fuscous, spotted and 

 marked with pale bluish beneath. Head beneath, sternum and legs black; palpi, sternum and extreme 

 base of wings spotted with white. 



Female. Anterior wings pale brown, with a paler longitudinal streak in cell, a similar one between 

 third median nervule and snbmedian uervure, a large ill-defined but bright blue patch on apical 

 third of wing, and spotted with white as in male. Posterior wings pale brown, with a long white streak 

 on each side of cell, and an intervening and shorter one of the same colom- at its apex ; three narrow 

 white streaks following cell, divided by the lower subcostal and discoidal nervules ; a submarginal series of 

 narrow elongate spots, which at basal half of wiug are continued upwards and united in pairs near median 

 uervure ; two narrow longitudinal streaks on abdominal margin, the outer one of which is broadly bifurcate 

 posteriorly, and a marginal series of smaller white spots. Underside of wings pale brown, marked and 

 spotted with white as above ; on the anterior wings, however, the two pale longitudinal streaks above are 

 distinct and white beneath. 



Exp. wings, S 90 to 96 millim. ; 2 96 millim. 



Hab.— Continental India ; Khasia Hills ; Xepaul ; Silhet.— Burma : Moulmein.— Upper Tenasserim 

 (coll. Moore).— Malay Peninsula ; Penang; Province Wellesley (coll. Dist.) ; Malacca (Brit. Mus.\—Siam 

 (coll. Godm. & Salv.).— Sumatra (Brit. JMus.). 



This widely-spread, abundant, and protected species is mimicked by several other 

 butterflies belonging- to different and non-protected families. In particular it is mimicked by 

 PapiUo paradoxa and P. anlfiiua, and Mr. Wallace" states that he often captured those species 

 under the impression that they were simply the more common E. inidamus. 



5. Euploea mulciber. (Tab. III., tig. 1 J , 2 ? .) 



PapiUo iinilciher, Cramer, Pap. Exot., ii., t. 127, C, D (1799). 



Eiiphra wulamit.1 (parti, Butl., Proc. Zool. Soc, 186G, p. 294, 7G ; Hor.sf. & Jlooro, Cat. Lcp. Lis. JIus. E. I. C, 



i., p. 133, n. 265 (18571. 

 Trepskhrois mulciher, Butl., Jouni. Liuu. Soc, Zool., vol. xiv., p. 290, 2 (1878 1. 



Male. Closely allied to the male of K. midamus, but smaller, with the apical portion of the anterior 

 wings less prominent, the submarginal spots above smaller, and the marginal spots absent ; the reflections 

 towards apex of the same wing are more violet than bright blue as in the other species. Beneath 



■■■■ Contribut. to Nut. Select., p. 87. 

 Maech 31, 1882. H 



