NYMPHALID^. DANAIN^. EUPLOIA. 77 



nnd placed patch divided by the submedian neivure, cretaceous-white ; atid with tlie sutural 

 cell behind the whitey-brown patch cinereous and satiny, Hindwing with a submarginal 

 series of minute violet-white dots, a cellular spot and a curvilinear series of six just 

 outside it bluish white, in addition to the usual basal dots. Female : Wings above 

 and below all lighter and more broadly bordered externally with paler colour of much the 

 same tint as in E. camorta. Forewing above with an increasing series of three subapical 

 spots, an elongated subcostal spot, a minute dot near the end of the cell, and a larger one 

 just beyond it near the base of the interspace between the second and third median nervules, 

 and white. Hindwing above spotless. Underside with the discal spots of (^cjM wzw^'j, and 

 the subapical ones of the fore^vins; larger and more prominent, but with the submarginal 

 series of the hindwing incomplete and less distinct, there being only two speck-like represen- 

 tatives of them on one hindwing and three in the other, and with a short linear dash between 

 the submedian nervure and the first median nervule, forming a seventh circumcellular 

 mark ; the spots all coloured as in the male. The second and smaller specimen approaches 

 the male in the colour of the upperside, and in the breadth of the pale outer borders ; it 

 lacks the seventh circumcellular mark, and has only one indistinct representative of the 

 submarginal series of dots on the underside of the hindwing." 



"Appears to be very closely allied to the Javan E. sepnkhralis, Butler." 

 "A single male and two female specimens from Great Nicobar. On the upperside, it very 

 closely resembles E. camorta, of which it is in all probability a mimic, differing from that 

 species, however, in its rather darker and more sombre hue, and in being devoid of a silky 

 sexual streak, and on the underside in the presence of a submarginal series of dots in the 

 posterior wing. " (IVood-Mason and de Niceville, 1. c. ) 



S8. Euploea. molesta, Butler. 



E. modesta, Butler, Pmc Zoo!. Soc. Lend., iSoo, p. 273, n. 13. 



Habitat : Tenasserim (?), Siam. 



Expanse : 3*2 inches. 



Description : " Male : Upperside rufescent swarthy. Foixtving with the basal area 

 bluish. Hindwing with the costal area paler ; a rather large fuscous subcostal spot, the outer 

 margin with two rows of ochreous-white submarginal spots, tb.e inner row with elongate spots 

 not reaching the apex. Body rufous-swarthy, the head spotted with white. Antenna black. 

 Underside paler. Forewutg with the outer portion of the internal area ochreous, and the 

 margin broadly ashy ; one discal spot, and two dots, one costal, and a spot at the end of the 

 cell, bluish-white, Hindwing with submarginal spots as above, seven discal spots in an 

 arched series, and a spot at the end of the cell, violet-white ; some white dots at the basct 

 Body with the thorax ashy, spotted with white ; the abdomen swarthy with elongated ochreous 

 median spots. Antenna black." (Butler, 1. c.) Female undescribed. See remarks on the 

 following species, E. cnpreipennis. 



An allied species, E. camaraheman,* Butler, is recorded from Siam. 



59 Euplcea cupreipeaaia, Moore. 



Crastia cupreipennis, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1S7S, p. 823. 



Habitat : Mergui, Upper Tenasserim. 



Expanse: 3"I3 to 3'6o inches. 



Description : " Allied to E. modesta from Siam. Upperside cupreous-brown, the 



outer borders broadly paler. Forewing with the basal area blue-glossed. Hindwing with 



*E, ca7naralzeman, Butler. Habitat : Siam. Expansk : 4"i inches. Dbscription : " Male : Upperside 

 blackish-swarthj . Forewing with the basal area shot with greenish-blue, one indistinct white spot below the end 

 of the cell. Hindwing, with the costal margin paler, in the middle greenish-blue ; with twelve ochreous-white 

 marginal spots, and a submarginal anal series. Body blackish swarthy, anteriorly spotted with white ; the 

 antenna h\Ack. Underside olivaceous. ^Vi>-t'jt)/«^ with the basal area fuscescent and shot with greenish-blue; 

 the internal area paler, and one dot at the end of the cell, and three minute anal spots white. H indwing with 

 submirginal spots as on upperside, live discal spots, and one at the end of cell, cchreous-white. Body with 

 the thorax black, spotted with white; the abdomen swarthy, with blue median spots. " {Butler, ProC. Zool. Soc, 

 Lond., 1866, p. 271, n, 6, pi. xxix, iig. i, male). 



