68 NVMPHALID^. DANAIN^. EUPL A. 



above the iiiteino-median streak, and others have a short streak below it ; all these spots and 

 streaks being violet. Hindwing paler brown, suffused darker and slightly tinted with blue on 

 and about the median nervule j the costal area hoary, a large ochreous patch about the sub- 

 costal nervure covering the upper half of the cell, and extending above it ; a submarginal 

 decreasing row of three or four violet spots from the costa (almost obsolete in one specimen), 

 and a few marginal dots from anal angle ; in one specimen the submarginal row is complete to 

 anal angle. Underside paler brown, with the spots paler violet, almost white. Forewing 

 with the interno-median area cinereous, the streak of the upperside visible as a raised con- 

 colorous mark ; a conspicuous broad oval whitish patch above the first median nervule, two 

 discal streaks sometimes prominent, sometimes obsolete, a subcostal violet spot ; the sub- 

 marginal row much smaller than on upperside and partially obsolete in one specimen ; and a 

 marginal row of small prominent dots, usually complete, but partially obsolete, in one specimen. 

 Hindwing with a decreasing submarginal row of round whitish spots from the costa to anal 

 angle ; and a corresponding row of rounded marginal dots from anal angle not quite reaching 

 the apex. The usual basal white dots, but no spots on the disc of the hindwing, and none in 

 the cell of either wing, on upper or underside. The female differs from the male on the 

 UPPERSIDE in having the submarginal spots of the forewing prominently centered with white j 

 also in having the inner margin straight, not bowed out as in the male, and on the hindwing in 

 the absence of the subcostal ochreous patch. On the underside the forewing is similar, except 

 that the internal cinereous area does not nearly reach the median nervule, and the raised sexual 

 streak is absent ; on the hindwing the marginal and submarginal spots are rather more 

 prominent. One female, evidently aberrant, has a conspicuous geminate violet spot at end of 

 the cell in the forewing. 



Notwithstanding that Butler in his original description of this species* omits all men- 

 tion of the brilliant blue shot, it is clear from Distant's description in his " Rhopalocera 

 Malayana," written after examination of the type, that the species here described is E. vesti- 

 giata, Butler. Neither Butler nor Distant refer in their descriptions to E. eunice, Godart, 

 from Java, of which the present species appears to us to be only the continental form. Distant 

 remarks that E. vestigiata " appears to be a variable species [of this there can be no doubt], 

 and is probably a race of the £. novanr, Felder. Felder clearly defines this variability in 

 his description ; in fact, with the qualifications he there admits in the markings of several 

 varieties, the Province Wellesley specimens might almost be considered as agreeing with some 

 of his Nicobar types. This Malay form somewhat differs from Javan specimens of £. vesti- 

 giata, which Mr. Kirby was probably correct in considering a variety of Felder's species." 



Numerous specimens of this species were taken by Captain C. H. E. Adamson, near 

 Moulmein, on i2th June ; and a single male was taken at the Maylachoung, by Captain C. T. 

 Bingham, on the 24th September ; but it is a rare Butterfly, and has not hitherto been recorded 

 as occurring within Indian limits. 



49- EuplOSa novarSS, Felder. 

 E. ftcn'artr, Felder, Verb, zool.-bot. Gesellsch. Wien, vol. xii, p. 482, n. 108 (1862) ; Reise Nov., Lep., vol. ii, 

 p. 317, n. 430, pi. xxxix, fig. 7 (1865), male. 



Habitat : Kar Nicobar. 



Expanse : 4"i inches. 



* Kupl<ra vestigiata, Butler. Habitat : Malacca, Sumatra, Java. Expanse : Male, 3*55 ; female 3-4 inches. 

 Description : ''■Forexving above blackish-swarthy, the margin slightly rufous, with eight or nine submarginal spots, 

 one costal spot, and a short internal discal streak, violet. //iWw/wjf olivaceous-swarthy, deeper in the middle ; 

 with the costal margin whitish, with three subapical white spots ; the malb with a rather large subtriangutar 

 ochreous spot placed near the costa. Body blackish-swarthy, spotted with white in front ; the antenna black, 

 Unoeuside olivaceous, with the interior margin ochreous-white ; in the malb with six submarginal dots, nine 

 marginal, and one rather large oval discal spot, white j one oval discal internal spot ashy ; one small costal 

 spot an'd'two discal placed behind the cell, violet-white. Forewing of the fkmale with nine submarginal spots, 

 four subanal dots, two minute subapical dots, and one large oval discal spot, white ; one costal spot violet- 

 white. Hindwing with ten submarginal spots, and nine or ten anal marginal spots, white ; two elongated discal 

 dots between the subcostal nervules, violet-white. Body, with the thorax black, spotted with white, the abdomen 

 ashy-fuscous ; the antenna black.' {Butler, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1866, p. j88, n. 58, fig. i./emalt). 



