8o NYMPHALIDyE. DANAIN^. EUPLCEA. 



B. With the sexual brand short ("20 to '30 in E. andamanensh, '23 to '35 in E. godartii and E. camorta), 



but conspicuous and rather broad. 



a. Upperside with spots on the border. 



a'. Pale brown, darkest on external border, 



67. E. ANDAMANENSis, Andamaus. 



*' . Rufescent brown ; apex of forewing broadly suffused with violet-white . 



68. E, GODARTII, Burma. 



b. Upperside with few or no spots on either wing, none on the outer margin. 



«'. Underside with two subapical spots on fore^uing, and five on the disc on 

 hindwing. 



69. E. SCHERZERI, Ceylon. 



*' Underside with no subapical spots on forewing, and six to seven on the disc 

 on hindwing, 



70. E. CAMORTA, Nicobars. 



C. With the sexual brand long ('45 in E. alcathoe), and conspicuous; the inner row of spots on hbtd' 



•wing narrow and very elongate. 



a, /V7r«t</«^ velvety black, scarcely perceptibly glossed with violet ; both rows of spots on 

 hindwing prominent, 



71. E, ALCATHOE, N.-E. India, Burma. 



b. Forewing shot with violet ; outer row of spots on hindwing obsolete. 



72. E. MENETRlESii, N.-E. India ? Burma. 



D. With the sexual brand long ("ss in E. deione, '65 to •75 in E. liniborgii), veiy broad and conspicuous. 



Forewing splendidly shot with blue. 



a. Hindwing with border spots obsolescent. 



73. E. DEIONE, N.-E, India. 

 b. Hindwing with border spots prominent. 



74. E. LiMBORCii Burma. 

 E. PINWILLI, Malacca. 



The first four species — E. core, E. vermiculata, E. asela, and E. subdita — are probably 

 merely local races or subspecies of E. core, E. subdita, which represents the Bunnan form, is 

 the most distinct of all, with its perceptible blue shot, and comparatively large sexual brand. 

 E. asela, the Ceylon form, is distinct too as far as typical specimens from that Island are con- 

 cerned ; but the E. core of South India shows a very close approach to it, some specimens 

 being indistinguishable from the Ceylon form. E. vermkulata of Northern India is more 

 variable still, typical specimens are easily recognised, but the gradations between it and the 

 typical E. core are so numerous that it is impossible to separate the two. 



61. Euploea core, Cramer. (Pl.^te IX, FiG. 16, ^ $ ). 



Papilio core, Cramer, Pap. Ex., vol. iii, pi. cclxvi, figs» E, F (1780); Danais coreta, Godart. Enc. 

 M6ith., vol. ix, p. 178, n. 6 (1819). 



Habitat : India generally. 



Expanse : $ , yo to 4*0 ; $, 3*4 to 3*8 inches. 



Description : Upperside rich dark velvety-brown, rather paler on the hindwing, 

 and much paler on the margin, narrowly on foretving, more broadly on hindwing ; a double 

 continuous series of white spots on the margin of both wings, those on the hindwing largest. 

 The inner series is on the forezoing continued prominently right up to the costa, one spot 

 between each pair of nervules, rounded ; on the hindwing the spots above the third median 

 nervule are as on the forewing ; below that nervule they are somewhat elongate-oval, and two 

 between each pair of nervules. The outer series consists of two spots between each pair of 

 nervules on both ivings, decreasirg towards the apex of fomviug, where the uppermost are 

 obsolete. A small internal silky streak on the forewing in the male. The female is paler than 

 the male, is without the silky streak, has a straight inner margin to \\\e. fornving, and usually a 

 white subcostal dot near upper end of cell in that wing, and one outside the cell between the first 

 and second median branches in addition to the two scries of marginal spots, which latter are 



