190 EUTHALIA. By H. Stichel. 



wliich lie together with their basal surfaces. The flight of the butterflies is fast and graceful. They rest in 

 the sunshine with the wings spread out, closeing them when disturbed (NicfiviLLE). 



This genus also has been split up by F. Moore (Lep. Ind. Ill) without there being any great necessity 

 for it into the following genera: Saparona (type: S. cibaritis), Haraniha (type: //. appiades) , Cynitia (type: 

 C. phlegethon) , Kirontisa (type: H. telchinia) , Tasinga (type: T. ajiosia) , DopJila (type: D. eveli?ia), Nora 

 (type: TV. kesai'a), Sonepisa (type: S. kanda), Euthalia (type: E. luhentiim), Limbusa (type: L. nara), Mahaldia 

 (type: M.sahadeva), Zalapia (type: Z. patala), Chucapa (type: C. francicw), and Labranga (type: L. durga). 

 For the Palaearctic species it is sufficient to eni]iloy the general designation Euthalia. 



omeia. E. omeia Leech ($ = consobina Leech) (58c, d) is presumably the Chinese representative of E. nara 



Moore (cj = anyte Hew.) from North India. The yellowish colour of the costal margin of the hindwing is 

 characteristic for the (J, Jjeing more extended than in nara; the colour of the other parts of the wings is more 

 brownish instead of greenish as in nara, and the pale abbreviated discal band of the latter is obsolete in otneia. 

 In the $ of both forms the differences are less marked. This sex has a very different facies, being grey- 

 green, with a white oblique band on the forewing, the markings of the underside proving that the sexes be- 

 long together. The ^ agrees very well in shape and colour with the species of the preceding genus. — West 

 China: Omei-shan, Moupin. 



strephon. E. strcphon Gr.-Srnith is olive-green above. Forewing with 2 black-edged spots in the cell and a black 



transverse stripe near the base, the interspace being shaded with yellow; beyond the cell across the whole wing 

 a rather broad, dull yellowish band with somewhat undulate edges, being accompanied anteriorly on both 

 sides by some ill-defined lighter spots. Hindwing of a greener tint, in the cell a black-edged spot, in the outer 

 area parallel to the distal margin a broad, pale ochre-yellow transverse band, which is posteriorly diffuse; near 

 the edge a row of dark hastate or lunate spots. Underside paler; the forewing ochreous, the cell-spots distinct, 

 the transverse band indicated by a black shading along its sides, the distal marginal area greenish yellow, the 

 abdominal area grey; hindwing greenish, in the cell and above the same black ring-shaped markings, the band 

 broader than above, the margin yellowish. In size like hebe, but the forewing more pointed. The $ recalling 

 khama; the white spots of the forewing smaller, the apex more pointed, the hindwing beneath with a row of 

 5 white spots, otherwise on the whole agreeing with the ^. — North -West China: Siao-lu, Tientsuen, etc. 



khama. E. khama .1//)/;. (= sinica Moore). ^ in shape and colour similar to E. omeia Leech, also similar to 



Ihibetana , but the bands of both wings abbreviated. Ground-colour dull greyish green, in the cell of the 

 forewing 2 black-bordered spots placed as in omeia, the interspace olivaceous yellow; beyond the cell an obli- 

 que band of 4 spots and 2 subapical spots, also yellow, between the two median veins a pale yellowish discal 

 spot, which is ill-defined and gradually fades away in the ground-colour, which is brownish there. On the hind- 

 wing a narrow basal area uniformly dark grey-green; on the disc a sharply defined, cjiarved; olive-yellow band, 

 which is broad costally. behind becoming narrower and being here separated into spots. Underside ochreous 

 olive, the markings as above. China: proA'ince of Sze-chuen in the Taisiangualin Pass and along the Tibetan 

 dubernardi. frontier; Ta-tong-kiao. — dubernardi Oberth. is a local form of smaller size and with all tlie spots on botli 

 wings of the (J above and below reduced. The $ not yet known: Tse-kou, Tibet. 



irrubescens. E. irrubescens Gr.-Smith belongs to the group of E. lubentina Cr. from India, etc. cJ: collar and pal])i 



red; upperside of forewing dark green in the basal half, almost black, the outer half paler, liglit metallic green, 

 tiie veins and long internervular streaks black; in the cell 2 red, black-edged, narrow, elongate spots, one in the 

 centre, the other at the apex. Basal area of hindwing of the same tint as on forewing, the discal area paler 

 and traversed by the black veins and the long tear-like internervular streaks, in a similar way as the outer 

 half of the forewing; in the cell 2 dark stripes, and at the distal margin, beginning at the anal angle, some 

 elongate red submarginal spots, costal margin paler, with a bluish tint. Underside similar to upper, paler, 

 the red spots in the cell of the forewing broader and more distinct, below the median vein at the base of the 

 lower branch a small black spot ; across the cell of the hindwing two red bars, above the cell 3 small red spots 

 and a red costal basal streak; in the distal area there are at the tips of the black internervular streaks a -row 

 of red spots, of which the posterior ones are the more distinct ones ; the abdominal margin edged with red from 

 the base to the anal angle. — Apparently so far only one specimen known. West China: Omei-shan. 



pyrrha. E. pyrrha Leech (58d) is a smaller Chinese race of sahadeva Moore, of which the nymotypical race flies 



in North India. The c? is similar to the $ in colour and pattern, but the band of the forewing continued to 

 the hindmargin. The ^ of pyrrha differs from the nymotypical form in the yellowish band of the forewing 

 being broader, and the $ in the band being purer white, while in sahadeva $ it is yellowish (OberthOr). — West 

 China: Moupin, Siao-lu, Mosymia. 



