76 NYMPHALID^. DANAIN^. EUPLCEA. 



Butler records E. nmhiber as a distinct species, occurring with E. viidanius at Malacca. 

 Cramer's figure of E. miilciber, however, is almost identical with the common E. midamus of 

 North-East India. E. mulciber is figured by Distant (Rhop. Malay., pi. iii, figs, i male, i feritale 

 1882), who never met with it in the Malay Peninsula, and remarks (page 26) that " it has been 

 considered as the constant Bornean race or form of E. viidannis, and peculiar to that island." 



The figure shows the upperside of a male from the Khasi hills, and of a female from 

 Sibsagar, Assam, both in the Indian Museum, Calcutta. 



Fifth group- — Crastia, Hiibner. — *' Males with more acuminate forewing than in 

 Trepsichrois the inner margin much more convex ; no brand on the forewing, and no yellowish 

 spot in the cell of the hindwing. Females similar to Trepsichrois \r\ form." {Btitler, Journ. 

 Linn. Soc, Zoology, vol. xiv, p. 297, 1878). 



This is a Malayan group ; four species are recorded as occurring within Indian limits, one 

 in the Nicobars, the others all in the extreme east on the borders of Malayana. All the species 

 are comparatively rare within Indian limits, and we have no specific record of any being taken, 

 except in Tenasserim and the Nicobars. 



Eey to the Indian species of Crastia. 



A. With the wings above spotless black-fuscous, suffused with the dee [»est violet-blue, bordered externally 



with paler unglossed fuscous. 



57. E. (Crastia) simuiatrix, Nicobars, 



B. Basal three-fourths of forewing glossed with blue ; hindwing with two series ofsmall whitish spots, 



a, Rufescent swarthy ; hindwing not blue glossed ; spots small. 



58. E. (Crastia) modesta, Burma. 



E. (Crastia) camaralzeman, Siam. 



b. Cupreous brown ; hindwing blue glossed ; spots larger. 



Sg. E. (Crastia) cupreipennis, Burma. 



C. Wings blackish-swarthy, unglossed >vith blue; forewing with three more or less complete series of white 



spots, 



60. E. (Crastia) bremeri, Mergui. 



E. (Crastia) malayica, Malayana. 



57- Enploea SlmulatriS, W.- M. anddeN. 



E. (Crastia) simulatrix, Wood-Mason and de Nic^ville, Journ. A. S. B., vol. 1, part ix, p. 229 (1881), male \ 

 idem, id., vol. U, p. 15, pi. iii, fig. i 7nale, ■z female C1882). 



Habitat : Great Nicobar. 



Expanse : (J, 37 ; $ , 3"i8 to 3-86 inches. 



Description : '■ Male. Upperside spotless black-fuscous, suffused with the deepest 

 violet-blue, externally tolerably broadly bordered with paler unglossed fuscous. H{ndwi7ig 

 with an oval patch of iridescent lighter modified scales, occupying about the second and third 

 fifths of the length of the organ, extending from the middle of the discoidal cell to the middle 

 of the interspace between the costal and subcostal nervures at its widest part, and bounded in 

 front by an indi.stinct streak of cretaceous white ; and with the space in front of this oval patch, 

 and of the apical portion of the first subcostal branch, cinereous. Underside lighter and less 

 sombrely coloured, their dark basal portions being distinctly glossed with purple-violet, more 

 broadly bordered with paler fuscous, and marked with prominent spots and streaks. Fore- 

 wing with eight spots, viz., a subapical series of three dots, the posterior of which is equal to 

 the other two taken together, a somewhat elongated large spot between the first and second 

 median nervules, nearly pure white ; a reversed comma-shaped spot near the end of the cell, a 

 rounded one and a short linear streak beyond it, the former between the second and third median 

 nervules, and the latter between the third median nervule and the discoidal nervure, and a sub- 

 costal spot on a level with the end of the cell, bluish or violet-white, with a streak pointed at 

 both ends in the meddle of the interno-median area, and, posterior to this, a similarly shaped 



