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14. Euthalia asoka. (Tab. XV., fig. 5 <? ; Tab. XIV., fig. 3 ? .) 



Adoluis .U.ikn, Folder, Eeise Nov. Lep. iii. p. 433, ii. (i'J4, t. 58, f. 1 (180G) ; Bntl. Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2, 

 Zool. vol. i. p. 539, u. 5 (1877). 



Male. Wiugs above dark castaneous ; both wings with a bluish outer marginal border, narrowe.st 

 on anterior wings, where it commences a little beneath apex, widening to posterior angle, and very wide 

 on posterior wings, terminating near submcnlian uervure ; this bluish area is more or less suffused 

 with purplish rellections ; cell of anterior wiugs crossed by four black lines, two central and two terminal. 

 Wiugs beneath dull and dark ochraceous ; anterior wings with the cellular markings as above, followed by 

 a curved black line connecting the lower discoidal nervule with the base of the second median uervule, and 

 with a very narrow, waved, dark fuscous discal or submarginal fascia, commencing near lower subcostal 

 nervule, between which and upper discoidal nervule it is strongly angulated ; beyond this fascia the 

 colour is violaceous ; posterior wings with a paler waved submarginal fascia, and a very indistinct 

 discal one which is principally visible near the subcostal nervules. Body and legs more or less 

 concolorous with wings. 



Female. Wings above pale brownish. Anterior wiugs with the cellular markings as in the male ; 

 a waved line beyond cell, a small looped line beneath cell at outer base of third median nervule, and 

 a larger one of the same character at inner base of the same nervule, preceded by another small one near 

 base ; a discal series of seven pale spots divided by the nervules (the lower two together situate between the 

 third median nervule and submediau nervure), the two upper spots divided by the upper discoidal nervule 

 are largest, and the first is deeply scooped and excavated at its anterior margin, the third is small and 

 subquadrate, the fourth and fifth convex interiorly; beyond these spots the colour is bluish, followid l)y a 

 waved and narrow brownish fascia outwardly and broadly margined with bluish grey ; a marginal fuscous 

 line and the fringe grey. Posterior wings with a discal curved series of pale spots surrounded by darker 

 brown, placed between the nervules, from which to the outer margin the colour is paler and contains 

 a central narrow waved dark brownish fascia ; a marginal fuscous line and the fringe grey ; cell crossed by 

 two paii-s of looped lines. Wings beneath much paler and ochraceous ; markings as above, but the discal 

 series of large spots to anterior wiugs much paler, and not outwardly followed by bluish, and the narrow 

 dark fascia placed much closer to them than on upper side. Body and legs more or less concolorous 

 with wings. 



Exp. wings, ,? GO millim. ; $ G7 millim. 



Hab.— Malay Peninsula ; Penang (colls. Moore and Gosse) ; Province Wellesley (coll. Dist.) ; Malacca 

 (Pinwill— Brit. Mus.) — Borneo (Felder). 



The figure of the male here given is taken from a Malaccan specimen in the British 

 Museum, which was collected by Capt. Pinwill. The female is in my own collection from 

 Province Wellesley, and somewhat differs from Folder's figure * of the same sex by the much 

 less pale coloration of the posterior wings between the discal series of spots and the outer 

 margin. Felder, however, refers the species to two locahties, viz. "Malacca, interior" 

 (collected by the Com. de Castelnau), and Borneo, but does not specify from \vhich the 

 specimen figured was received. Consequently it is at least possible that the pale form may 

 have been from Borneo, and the species as found in the Malay Peninsula is of a somewhat 

 melanic race. 



* Beise Nov. Lep. iii. t. 58, f. 1. 



