﻿NYMPHALIN^. (Group FOTAiirSA.) 21 



wing short, triangularly ovate ; apex and anal angle rounded, exterior margin 

 slightly uneven ; subcostals and radial emitted close together ; cell open. Body 

 moderately robust ; antennae long, slender, with a lengthened slender club ; eyes 

 hairy ; anal claspers of male elongated, terminating at about half the length in a 

 narrow perpendicularly-curved superiorly-horny hook. Abdomen of female with 

 two raised protuberances on underside of the penultimate anal segment. 

 Type. — E. Osteria. 



EULACETJRA OSTERIA (Plate 195, fig. 1, la, b, (J ? ). 



Apatura Osteria, Westwood, Genera of D. Lep. p, 305 (1850). 



Eulaceura Osteria, Butler, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1871, p. 726. 



Sulacura Osteria, Butler, Trans. Linn. Soc. Zool. 1877, p. 541. Distant, Rhop. Malayana, p. 100, 



pi. xii. fig. 5, 6, <S ? (1882). de Niceville, Butt, of India, etc., ii. p. 55(1886). Staudinger, 



Lep.Exot.pl. 55, c? (1885). 



Imago. — Male. Upperside dark glossy purplish-brown. Forewing with a trans- 

 verse lower discal inwardly-oblique band, this band being composed of a series of 

 five purplish-white spots, the uppermost smallest (but sometimes absent) being 

 situated above the upper median veinlet; an obscure submarginal ocelloid spot 

 between the middle and lower median veinlet slightly visible. Hindwing crossed by 

 a continuous but broader purplish-white discal band, the abdominal margin being 

 greyish white ; a submarginal row of obscure paler brown lunules, a black ocelloid 

 subanal spot between the lower medians, and an obscure marginal paler brown line. 

 Underside glossy pale purplish-white. Both wings crossed by a slightly-defined 

 slender pale brown irregular discal line, which also inwardly borders the slightly 

 apparent discal white band. Forewing also with a slightly- defined small pale brown 

 spot within the cell, a slender bar at its end, a submarginal zigzag fascia, and a 

 marginal line ; a small outer pale ochreous ocelloid spot with black centre and outer 

 brown ring situated between the lower medians. Hindwing also with a pale brown 

 upper submarginal zigzag fascia, an entire marginal line, and a subanal pale ochreous 

 ocelloid spot with black centre and brown outer ring situated between the lower 

 medians. Body and palpi above brown ; palpi and body beneath, and legs white ; 

 antennae blackish ; eyes reddish, hairy. 



Female. Upperside pale umber-brown. Forewing with two blackish streaks 

 crossing the cell ; a sharply-defined transverse discal angulated series of outwardly 

 diffused broad whitish lunules, which merge into a less defined outer discal series, 

 and is followed by a submarginal series of slender whitish lunules ; a small black 

 ocellated submarginal spot between the lower medians. Hindwing crossed by a 

 similar but less defined inner and outer discal whitish lunular fascia, followed by a 

 submarginal series of more sharply-defined lunules, the upper ones of which 



