64 NYMPIIALID^. DANAIN^. EUPLCEA. 



This species has been considered and most probably is identical with E. crassa ; we repub- 

 lish both urginal descriptions, as there are two distinct forms — the one with no discal spots and 

 the submarginal row complete on forewing, the other with a discal row, and the submargiual 

 series incomplete ; but among the numerous specimens in the Indian Museum, and in our col- 

 lections, there are no less than eight which have the submarginal series abbreviated, and the 

 discal series wanting ; and it is impossible to say to which of the two species, if distinct, these 

 specimens should be referred : probably, they are really all one species which will stand as 

 E. erichsonii, Felder. The form we indentify as E. erichsonii is common in the neighbourhood 

 of Moulmein in the autumn. Captain C. H. E. Adamson has sent us a specimen taken in 

 June, in that locality, and we have one specimen taken at Rangoon in June, and Captain 

 C. T. Bingham has taken it in the Meplay valley in February, and in the Thoungyeen forests 

 in May. In the Indian Museum, Calcutta, there are four males and two females taken by 

 Limborg in Upper Tenasserim in the cold weather, and one female from Cachar taken by 

 Mr. Wood-Mason in April. 



43- Enploea masonl, Moore. 



Salpinx masoni, Moore, Proc. Zool. See. Lend., 1878, p. 823. 



Habitat : Upper Tenasserim ; Taoo, 3,000 to 5,000 feet ; above Ahsown. 



Expanse : 3'25 to 42 inches. 



Description : "Male. — Allied to E. crassa, Butler, but differing in its darker colour, 

 in the basal area of i\\t forewirtg being bright glossy blue, and the marginal spots on this wing 

 confined more to the apex. Hiudwitig, less convex along the exterior margin ; otherwise simi. 

 larly marked. From E. khigii, Moore, this species may be distinguished by the blue gloss being 

 confined to the basal area, whereas in E. klugii it is more brilliant, and suffuses the entire 

 wing." {Moore, 1. c.) The prominence of the two rows of marginal spots on the hindwing 

 in this species, as well as the breadth of the wings, distinguish it from E. illustris. 



E. masoni has been taken only in Tenasserim, where it is not uncommon, though less so 

 than either' of the others. The specimens in our collections, which accord well with this 

 description, are barely if at all separable from E. erichsonii. 



44- Euploea klTlgil, Moore. 

 E. klugii, Moore, Horsfield and Moore, Cat. Lep. E. I. C, vol. i, p. 130, n. 258 (1857). 



Habitat : N. India, Bhutan, Cachar, Sylhet, Upper Burma. 



Expanse : 3*0 to 4-1 inches. 



Description : " Male : Upperside deep brown, having on the fore-wing a brilliant 

 blue gloss, a submarginal row of small bluish-white spots, and an inner parallel row of larger 

 spots, also a bluish spot on costal margin ; one within discoidal cell ; two linear bluish marks, 

 one between each discoidal nervule ; and a rather indistinct bluish mark between the sub- 

 median and median nervures. Hindiving paler brown, darkest and glossed with blue in the 

 middle ; a submarginal row of white spots and a short inner row from anterior margin ; also 

 a patch of creamy-white rear middle of the wing. Underside brown. Forewing \\\K\\ \\\& 

 two rows of white spots smaller ; one spot on costal margin, one small narrow spot between 

 second discoidal and first [ ? third] median nervules, and a larger spot between second and 

 third [ ? f^r^t] median nervules ; a creamy-white patch on posterior base of the wing. Hind' 

 ■wing, with two rows of white spots. Female : Upperside nearly as in male. Forewing, 

 with the submarginal row of spots obsolete. Hindwing, pale brown, darkest and slightly 

 glossed with blue in the middle ; two white spots only of inner row distinct, the rest of 

 two rows indistinct ; without the creamy-white patch. Undersjbe, nearly as in male, 

 but not having the creamy-white patch. Shape of wings as in Euploca sttperba, Herbst." 

 {Moore t I. c.) 



