NYMPHALID/K. DANAIN^E. EUPLCEA. 69 



Description : *' Mai.k, with the cilia marked with white. Foreiving above blackish 

 chestnut, deeply suffused with violet blue in certain liglits, with a subcostal spot, two behind 

 the cell (sometimes entirely wanting), three median elongated (the first sometimes wanting, 

 the third minute, and the middle one large and powdered with white), and seven to nine others 

 submarginal of different shapes, pale violet blue, Hindwing pale silky fuscous, towards the 

 base almost as in the forewing, the anterior margin silky white, with two white spots, the 

 surface with the usual shelly appearance ; two or three decreasing spots, violet encircled with 

 swarthy. Underside, pale rufescent fuscous, with white basal spots. Forewing^ with a 

 subcostal spot, two beyond the cell, four large interior, a bent submarginal dot-shaped series 

 often interrupted, and a marginal series of minute spots. Hindwing, with some very small 

 external spots, and others before the hinder margin violet blue, more or less powdered with 

 white, and ringed with swarthy. Forexvmg, with the internal area as usual. A beautiful local 

 form of the Javan E. eunice." (^Felder, 1. c.) 



This is a very rare insect and we have never seen a specimen. 



50. Euploea lOUCOffOnyS, Butler. 



Salpinx leucogonys, Butler, Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond., Zoology, second series, vol. i, p. 536, pi. Ixviii, fig. 5 

 (1876), female. 



Habitat : Nepal (?) Assam (?) Malacca. 



Expanse : 32 inches. 



Description : Female. "Nearly allied to E. vestigiata, Butler, but smaller ; the costa 

 kA forewing xioX. so strongly arched, the outer margin slightly inarched in the centre ; the sub- 

 marginal spot on second median nervule wanting ; the subcostal spot above the end of the 

 cell much smaller, the spot on interno-median area widened into a notched blotch, all the spots 

 lilac. Hindwing, paler, only three lilacine whitish spots placed obliquely near apex ; no 

 submarginal spots ; anal angle white. Underside : Foreiuing, with only two or three sub- 

 marginal and three or four marginal white dots. Hindwing, with no white blotches beyond 

 the cell." {Butler, 1. c.) The figure shews on the hindtvtng three white submarginal spots 

 one in each interspace above the discoidal nervule ; and five large violet-white spots on the 

 margin at the anal angle. Distant remarks (Rhop. Malay., p. 27, note) : — " Butler's figure is 

 somewhat misleading, the marginal spots to hindwing having been enlarged and exaggerated 

 by the artist compared with those on the type specimen in the British Museum which I have 

 examined." Mr. Distant considers E. leucogonys as merely a small variety of E. vestigiata. 



This also appears to be a rare insect, and we have never seen a specimen ; its occurrence in 

 " Nepal and Assam" must be considered doubtful pending further evidence ; it belongs to a 

 Malayan group. 



51. EuplOSa rhalamaatllUS, Fabricius. (Plate VII, Fig. n, ^ ?). 



Papilio rkadamanthus, Fabricius, Ent. Syst., vol. iii, pt. i, p. 42, n. 127 (1793) ; Trepsichrois thodsa^ 

 Hubner, Samml. Ex. Schmett. (1806.1824) ; Danais alcidice et rhadamia, Godart, Eiic. Meth., vol. ix, p. 180, 

 nn. 13, 14 (1819^; Salpinx rkadamanthus ^ Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1878, p. 822, 



Habitat : Eastern Himalayas and Burma. 



Expanse : 3-0 to 38 inches. 



Description : Male : Foretuing black, tinged with brown at the base, and shot throughout 

 with deep violet blue, brightest towards the exterior margin ; a broad bar of white from the 

 costa almost to the median nervure, cut into four irregular parts by the black costal and sub- 

 costal nervures ; below this and outside the cell is a white spot of variable size between the. 

 second and third branches of the median nervure ; this spot is sometimes altogether wanting, 

 and in some cases a second white spot appears between the first and second median nervules. 



