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a faint trace of an obsolete marginal row is visible. There is also a large patch of lengthened, 

 plush-like, modified scales somewhat lighter coloured than the ground, filling the upper 

 and outer two-thirds of the cell, and extending beyond it almost to the outer margin, 

 bounded posteriorly by the third median nervule and extending to above the first subscostal 

 branch. This patch of scales, together with the small yellowish patch also within and nearer 

 the base of the cell, is peculiar to this group of Euplxas. Underside, paler brown. Fore- 

 wing, with the iuterno-marginal area broadly tinged with ashy, and showing a broad whitish 

 streak near base, almost covered by the hindwing. Spots as on upperside, but violet-white, 

 smaller, and the oblong interno-median spot which terminates the discal row is wanting on 

 the underside. Hiinhviiig with a marginal row of two spots between each pair of nervules, 

 from anal angle not usually reaching the apex ; a submarginal similar row from apex, incomplete 

 towards the anal angle ; a spot in the cell at the end, and three or] four small streaks arranged 

 outside it on the disc, violet-white ; the cilia spotted with white on both wings. 



The above description is from specimens from Shillong, which are of large size ; the 

 specimens from Upper Tenasserim are much smaller, and on the underside the spots are all 

 smaller ; many of them, especially on the hindwing, are completely wanting, and where present 

 are very minute. In some Sikkim specimens also the spots are similarly small, and more or 

 less wanting on the underside. On the underside of the abdomen there are six transverse 

 bands of lilac-white in Shillong and Sikkim specimens, while in the Tenasserim specimens 

 there are seldom more than three. Female : Brown, darkest towards the apex of forewing, 

 and much streaked with white, especially on the hindwing. Forewing with a large patch on 

 outer half shot with bright blue ; the spots as in the male, but except on the blue-shot patch 

 the spots are pure white ; from the base of the wing a faint brownish-white streak in the 

 cell, and a longer and whiter streak (sometimes double) in the interno-median area, coalescing 

 with the last spot of the discal series. Bindiving \\'\\.h. a row of rounded marginal spots, a 

 submarginal row of white streaks, two between each pair of nervules, short at the apex, but 

 towards the anal angle extended right up to the base of the wing ; a discal series longest at 

 the costa, and three or four streaks in the cell, all white. Underside as on upperside, but 

 the streaks from base q{ forewing broader, more prominent and purer white ; some of the spots 

 and streaks on the outer half of both wings tinted faintly with blue. The specimens from 

 Tenasserim, as do the males, average smaller in size than those from Shillong. 



Larva. — Ground-colour testaceous, marked with crimson and black perpendicular lines 

 on the segments, a spiracular row of black spots and some yellow blotches just above the legs. 

 The face is also marked with crimson and black ; legs red ; the third, fourth, fifth, and twelfth 

 segments have each a pair of very long tentacula springing from the subdorsal region, and 

 standing almost upright over the body j the lower portion of these processes is crimson, the 

 upper black. Figure 10 of Plate IV, of Horsfield and Moore's Cat. Lep. E. I. C. (1857), 

 from Java, where it '' feeds on a species of Ficus, December." Also Plate III, figs. 10, 

 caterpillar, and loa, chrysalis, of Horsfield's Cat. Lep E. I. C. (1829). Pupa, Figure loa. — 

 Castaneous, beautifully marked with gold. 



E. midamtis is, withtheexceptionof.fi'. core, the commonest and most widely spread of 

 all the Euplccas of North India, but, except in the far east, it is only found in the warm valleys 

 of mountainous regions. It extends from Tenasserim as far west as Kulu, where Mr. A. 

 Grahame Young has taken a single specimen. Mr. de Nicevillealso took a single worn female 

 at Kalka, Punjab, in October. A single specimen was taken by Colonel Lang, at Sitapur, in 

 Oudh, but its occurrence in the plains of Oudh must be very exceptional. In Kumaon it is 

 found, but rarely, in the warm valleys in the lains. In Nepal it seems to be common near 

 Khatmandu, as Dr. .Scully brought down numerous specimens. Mr. de Niceville has taken it 

 commonly in the Sikkim tarai, and below Darjiling in the autumn. In the Khasi hills it is 

 common in the autumn and cold weather. Mr. Wood-Mason found it abundant in Cachar 

 throughout the hot weather. Dr. J. Anderson also took numerous specimens in the Mergui 

 Archipelago throughout the cold months; and in Upper Tenasserim Captain Bingham found it 

 common in the Thoungyeen forests in March and April. 



