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Body very hairy ; palpi slender, clothed with very long slender hairs ; antenuse with 

 a well-formed lengthened club ; eyes naked. — Type. A. Raddei. — Aldania Baddei 

 (Diaderaa Raddei, Bremer, Bull. Acad. Petr. 1861, p. 467. Neptis Raddei, Bremer, 

 Lep. Ost-Siberia, p. 18, pi. 1, fig. 9 (1864). Habitat. E. Siberia, Amurland. 



Group III. EUTHALIINA. 



Nymphalina (part), Herr. Schseflfer, Prod. Syst. Lep. p. 17 (1864). Distant, Ehop. Malayana, p. 83 



(1882). 

 Adoliades, Butler, Catal. Fabrician Lep. Brit. Mus. p. 86 (1869). 

 N ijmplialida (part), Doherty, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1886, p. 110. 

 Nymphalidas (Euthalia group), Staudinger and Schiitts, Exot. Schmett. p. 163 (1887). 

 Euthaliina, Moore, Lep. Indica, ii. p. 225 (1895). 



Characters of the Groop Euthaliina. 



Imago. — Robust. Forewings broad, triangular; apex either obtusely pointed or 

 rounded, or somewhat falcate ; exterior margin either slightly, but obtusely, scalloped, 

 or nearly even. The costal vein either free in both sexes, or anastomosed to the 

 first subcostal branch in both sexes, very rarely free in the male and. anastomosed 

 in the female. Cell in male either closed or open in both fore and hindwings, or 

 rarely closed in the forewing and open in the hindwing. Hindwings short, broad, 

 triangular or obovate, or sometimes subquadrate. Eyes naked ; very rarely hairy. 



Caterpillar. — Head slightly cleft and spiny or minutely hairy. Body armed 

 with either an erect subdorsal and a lateral row of branched-spines, or with only a 

 lateral row of very long horizontally-projecting branched-spines. 



Chrysalis. — Elongate and boat-shaped, with arched dorsum and bifid head, or, 

 short and stout, with conically triangulate medio-dorsal keeled prominence, and 

 bifid head. 



Egg. — Unknown. 



Habits of the Imago. — " The Euthalias have a bold flight, and settle with wings 

 both closed and open, the former more especially when alarmed. They are 

 particularly partial to the juices of over-ripe fruit " (de Niceville, J. A. S. Beng. 

 1893, 45). " The commonest and most widely spread species of the group, Euth. 

 Garuda, frequents mangos trees, and usually settles with wings widely spread open, 

 and, I think, is less common in the jungle than it is about human dwellings. It 

 loves to bask on old grey walls, and may be found making itself happy in the dirtiest 

 part of the Native Town. I am quite sure it prefers the liquids which it sips from 

 the roadside gutter to the nectar of any flower " (Aitken, J. Bombay N. H. S. 

 1886, 134). " The species of Parthenos have a very beautiful and charaoteristio 



