84 NVMPHALID^. DANAIN/H. EUPLCEA. 



Moore, in the I.ei'idoptera of Ceylon (p. 12), gives the following description of the male 

 of this rare species, which differs somewhat from the original description by Felder quoted 

 above : — " Uppeksidic blackish purple-brown. Foreiiiin:^ blue glossed, a very small white costal 

 spot above end of the cell, a s()ot between third and second median nervules, a submarginal 

 series of spots curving from apex, and a lower marginal series of smaller spots, a slender 

 short sericeous streak below the first median nervule. Hindiving unmarked, except 

 that it indistinctly shows a submarginal and marginal series of pale brown spots. 

 Underside dark olive-brown. Fo>eu>ing with a bluish costal spot, a spot at lower 

 end of the cell, a spot between the third and second median nervules, and a larger 

 elongated white spot below it, the sexual streak and posterior [inner?] margin being brownish 

 white ; submarginal and marginal spots as above. Hindwin^ with a minute bluish spot at end 

 of the cell, and a contiguous discal series of spots, a marginal series of small white spots, and 

 a submarginal anal series of three or four spots. Body black ; head, thorax, palpi and abdo- 

 men beneath white spotted ; legs black. Expanse, 4 inclies. Taken at Trincomalee on the 

 north-east side of the isand." 



67- Euplosa andamanensls, Atkinson. 



E. andamanensis, Atkinson, Proc. Zool. Soc. Loud., 1873, p. 736, n. 2, pi. Ixiii, fig. 2, tnalg. 



Habitat : Port Blair, Andaman Isles. 



Expanse : 3*12 to 4 inches. 



Description: " Pale fuliginous with white spots, /^:'/■lfrw>;o- with a white spot between 

 the extremity of the cell and the costa ; another within the cell near its extremity ; two others 

 below the cell, one between the first and second, the other between the second and 

 third median nervules ; beyond these a curved series of nine white spots from the 

 anterior margin to below the exterior angle, of which the three last are the largest ; 

 followed by a submarginal series of smaller elongated spots, extending from the first 

 discoidal nervule to the exterior angle. The interior margin much rounded in the 

 MALE, in which sex there is a single vitta of dark adpressed scales between the first 

 median nervule and the submedian nervure. In the female the vitta is replaced by a white 

 streak. Hindivin^ with two somewhat irregular series of elongated white spots, corresponding 

 to the two series in the forewing." (Atkinson, I. c.) Underside as on upperside, but on the 

 fomving the inner discal series of spots is often complete right up to the costa, the lowest spot 

 arcest and rou nd, the second also round, but smaller, the four upper ones linear and small. In 

 many specimens some or all of these four latter spots are wanting. On the hindivhtg there is 

 a large, sometimes geminate, spot in the cell, and six irregular discal spots round the end of it 

 in addition to the border rows as on upperside. The discal spots occasionally show faintly by 

 tiansparency on the upperside also. Female as in the male, except that on the upperside in 

 the forewing, the sexual streak is replaced by a white rather elongated spot, and the inner 

 margin is nearly straight, not outwardly lobed. On the hindwing, the spot in the cell and 

 the six discal spots are faintly present on the upperside, as well as the border rows of spots. 

 Underside as in male. 



E. andamanensis is a very distinct species ; it is common at Port Blair from March to 

 August, and possibly at other seasons. The original description by Atkinson quoted above has 

 been supplemented and completed from a large series collected by Colonel T. Cadell, V. C, 

 Chief Commissioner of the Andamans, and by Mr. F. A. de Roepstorff, Deputy Commissioner. 

 A marked feature of this species is that the ground-colour is darkest at the outer border 

 instead of at the base of the wings, as is usual in this group. It has only been found as yet in 

 the Andaman islands. 



68. Euplcea ffOdartU, Lucas. 

 E. godariii, Lucas, Rev. Zool., 1853, p. 319 ; E. siamensis, FelJer, Reise Nov., Lep., vol. ii, p. 341, 

 n. 473, pi. xlijfig. 6 (1B65), viale. 



Habitat : Burma. 



Expanse : ^,3-0 to 4*2 ; 9 , 3'2 to 4-0 inches. 



