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developed front legs in the Equitidce. An allied species is C. 

 dissinii/is (Linn.), which is covered with pale buff spots and 

 markings on a blackish ground. 



[xxxvn. PT.] Euploeopsis, De Niceville (ylsamiopsis^ Moore). 

 This genus includes a number of Indo-Malayan Butter- 

 flies, generally very rare in collections, which mimic the 

 brown, blue flushed Da/taince allied to Euphva. The type is 

 the North Indian P. tekarchus (Hewitson), one of the largest 

 species, expanding 4^ inches. The fore-wings are of a rich 

 purple, triangular, aiid pointed at the tip, with a blue spot in 

 the cell, a row of long blue spots beyond, and a sub-marginal 

 row of white ones ; the hind-wings are brown. 



[xxxvn. PT.] Metiamopsis, De Niceville. This genus, like 

 the last, includes a few North Indian species resembling 

 Danaince. of the Enplxa group. The type is M. tavoyanus 

 (Butler), from Tenasserim, which measures 3^ inches across 

 the fore-wings, which are much longer than the hind-wings, 

 and rounded. It is brown, with blue streaks on the fore-wings 

 in and beyond the cell, and between the nervures on the disc. 

 The hind wings have an inner sub-marginal row of white 

 streaks, and an outer row of yellow ones, the largest at the 

 anal angle surmounted by a black crescent. 



[xxxviil] Cadugoides, Moore. This is another Indo-Malayan 

 genus, resembling species of the Danaiiia. The type, C. agestor 

 (Gray), which is found in Sumatra, and also in the South- 

 western Himalayas, measures 3^ inches across tlie wings. It 

 is grey, with black nervures, and black borders dotted with 

 grey ; the hind-wings are more or less reddish. 



[xxxLX.] OrpJieidcs, Hiibner. The two principal species of 

 this genus, O. denwkiis (Linn.) and O. cntlioniiis (Cram.) 

 inhabit Africa and India respectively, and are among the most 

 abundant Butterflies of their respective countries. O. denwkiis, 

 found throughout Africa, except in the north (for its alleged 



