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E. leechi Oherth. (58d) is a name which has recently been proposed for the form recorded by Leech leedii. 

 (Biitterfl. (^hina, Jap., Cor.) as sahadeva, but now considered to be a distinct species. This Eiithalia is very 

 similar to the preceding, but the ground is more bronze-colour, the band of the forewing is entirely al)seul, and 

 the macular band of the hindwing is more lii<e a chain. The $ resembles that sex of pratti according to Ober- 

 THi)R. — West China: province of Kwei-chow, Mon])iii. Omei-shan, Siao-lu. 



E. kardama Moore (= armandiana Pouj.) (58a). Somewhat resembling the $ of the preceding form, kanlama. 

 but the white band of the forewing composed of smaller spots, angulate in the middle, and the posterior spots 

 shifted basad. Both sexes with a broad, pale, greyish green curved band on the hindwing bearing white spots 

 at its inner side and black ones at the outer. Underside much lighter, otherwise as above. $ larger, the 

 apex of the forewing somewhat more obtuse tlmn in the cJ. — Widely disliiliutcd and not raie in West and 

 Central China. 



E. contucius Weshv. (58b) bears a rather close similarity to the following species. Forewing with a confiicius. 

 broad yellowish oblique band whose edges, especially the outer one, are strongly broken, and with an abbreviated 

 yellowish subapical band; hindwing with a curved complete posteriorly tapering band which is likewise yello- 

 wish. Underside pale green, with grey and black shadows; markings as above, the bands broader, whitish 

 green. 9 larger, the subapical spots of the forewing whitish; on the hindwing in place of the band a large costal 

 patch and an elongate curved spot behind the same. Somewhat variable in the extent of the bands of both 

 wings. The facts that the sexes of confiicius are practically alike and the species was placed by Moore in his 

 genus Mahaldia render it probable that this insect is specifically distinct from the following species, placed by 

 Moore in Zalapia. — Plentiful in West and Central China. 



E. patala Roll. (= doubledayi Gray, epiona Moore) is in facies very similar to the ])receding, but has pataln. 

 only a small subapical double spot and a narrower oblique band on the forewing. In the nymotypical subspecies 

 the hindwing bears only an abbreviated, spot-like, band, which also on the light greenish grey underside is 

 continuous only as far as the 1. radial, ending between the radials with an isolated spot. The 9 only a little 

 larger, the band and the spots are white instead of yellowish, with a slight green sheen. The nymotypical foi'm 

 occurs from Sikkim and Nepal to the north-western districts of the Himalaya and extends to the Chumba Mts., 

 for which reason it is described here. Plentiful in forests during the rainy season, in July and August, from 

 600 to 2400 m. Tiie butterfly circles very swiftly round the tree-tops with a graceful skimming flight like a swallow. 

 If two or three meet they chase each other in and out of the shade and sunshine among the branches of the 

 trees. They pitch abruptly on the leaves, often with expanded wings, basking in the sunshine until a 9 or some 

 passing insect, another AdoUas or a Neptis floating near the quarrelsome species provokes it to dash off, buffet 

 the passer-by and, after a rapid skim, pitch suddenly once more near its former resting place (Lang). — pratti pnitii. 

 Leech (58c) is the Chinese form of this species, differing but slightly in the band of the forewing being narrower 

 and that of the hindwing longer. The light markings, moreover, are yellowish in the ^, white in the 9- Rare 

 in Central China: Ichang, Chang-Yang; West China: Chiao-ku-ho. June, July. 



E. hebe Leecli (58c) is a remarkable species with yellowish bands and s|)ots on a greyish green ground, hcbe. 

 The position of the band on the forewing is a characteristic of this and the following forms, this band not 

 running obliquely from the costa to the hind angle but being almost jiarallel to the distal margin. In 

 hcbe the band is composed of spots and twice elbowed, the middle portion being oblique and the other two 

 portions erect. The band of the hindwing is continuous, being broad anteriorly and narrowed behind. Ground- 

 colour of the undersidi^ of both wings pale greyish green. 9 not known. — China: Chang-Yang and Omei-shan. 



E. thibetana Pouj. (= staudingeri Leech) (58b). Likewise on the forewingwith a macular l)and which is nearly iliibctaiia. 

 parallelwiththeoutermargin, beingslightly zigzag, beginninganteriorly with some isolated small spots and widening 

 posteriorly. Hindwing with a contiinions band, which narrows behind and is exteriorly accompanied by a 

 sinuous black line, upon which follow light lunules ; in the marginal area large black shadowy patches. Underside 

 pale yellowish brown, with the markings of the upper, in the hind angle of the forewing a deep black shadow. 

 9 larger, the ground-colour of the upperside somewhat paler, the liands whitish. Somewhat variable, the bands 

 sometimes quite white in tiie 9; 'li^' width of the same very inconstant in both sexes. In some ^^^ the spots 

 of the band on the forewing very small, the proximal edge of the ])osterior sjjots diffuse, sometimes the green 

 colour with a yellowish tint. Common, up to 2100 m, in West and Ceidral China, in June and July. This 

 form is very closely related to E. duda Stgr. from North India, and must apparently be muted with E. durga 

 Moore to one species. — At Tse-kou there flies another slightly modified race, yunnana Oherth., which is on yunnana. 

 the whole lighter coloured and in which the bluish grey scaling at the outer side of the band on the hindwing 

 is more extended. 



