86 NYMPHALID^. DANAIN.E. EUPLCEA. 



very indistinct pale brown spots. Undrrside paler. Foreioing with a bluish-white small 

 costal spot, one at lower end of the cell, two beyond, and an elongated lower spot, three or 

 four siibmarginal spots below the apex. Hindwing with a small bluish-white spot at lower 

 end of the cell, a contiguous discal series, three upper sul)marginal spots and a marginal lower 

 series of spots. Body black ; head, thorax, palpi and abdomen beneath while spotted ; legs 

 black. Expanse, 3*5 inches." The female has never been described. 



70. Euploea camorta, Moore. 



E. camorta, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. Land., 1877, p. 582 : id., Wood-Mason and de Nicdville, Journ. 

 A. S. B., vol. 1, pt. ii. p. 228 (1881). 



Habitat : Nicobars. 



Expanse : ^, 3*5 to 4*2 ; ? , 3*6 to 4*1 inches. 



Description :" Malk : Upperside : Both wings dark blackish olive-brown, paler oa 

 the outer margins. Forewing with a short straight narrow silky streak beween the first median 

 nervule and submedian nervure. Hindwing with the anterior border broadly cinereous, the 

 upper part of the cell being slightly greyish-brown. Underside paler. Forewing \s'\\}(\ iowx 

 bluish- white spots, one being on the costa above the end of the cell, another at its lower end, 

 the other two outside ; the sexual streak long, narrow, and patch on hind margin pale flesh- 

 colour. .^/«aftw«?' with seven median bluish-white spots." (Afoore I. c) The female differs 

 from the male in the outer margin of />otk wings being paler, the inner margin of yhe forewing 

 is straight instead of convex, and in the absence of the sexual mark. In addition there is 

 u.sually a conspicuous violet-white subcostal spot above the end of the cell, and one outside the 

 cell below the third median nervule. 



E. camorta, with its conspicuous broad pale margin to both wings, is a very distinct form, 

 havin<^ no Indian allies, except apparently E. scherzcri from Ceylon. Some specimens show a 

 few spots on the disc on the upperside. It has only been found as yet in the Nicobars, where 

 it is very commonly met with, occurring probably all the year round. 



The next two species, E. alcathoe z'nd. E. menetriesii, may be distinguished by the very 

 elongate submarginal spots on the hindwing, which gradually lengthen from the apex to the 

 inner margin, at which point they extend nearly to the base of the wing. They are found 

 only in north-east India and Malayana. In these and in the two remaining species. E. deione 

 and E. limborgii, the forewing is of a more elongate-ovate form than in any of the preceding 

 species. * 



7t. Euploeaalcathoe, Godart. (Plate IX, Fig. 17 $ 2)- 



Danais akathoe, Godart, Enc. Meth., vol. ix, p. 178, n. 5 (1819) ; E. doubledayi, Felder, Reise Nov., Lep., 

 vol. ii, p. 337, n. 467 (1865). 



Habitat : Sikkim, Sylhet, Assam, Naga Hills, Cachar, Mergui, Upper Tenasserim. 



EXPANSK. : 32 to 4*2 inches. 



Description : " Upperside : Forewing deep chestnut swarthy, in certain positions slightly 

 suffused with violet, paler at the inner margm : with an internal short and narrow silky streak, 

 and minute white dots before the outer margin. Hindwino less intense in colour, much paler 

 towards the margin, with a pearly costal dot, and the anterior area concealed with raised scales, 

 giving the usual powdery appearance ; a row of external greatly increasing spots radiate on the 

 inner margin : and others before the margin, slightly elongate, increasing, white, powdered 

 with blown ; the lowest of the inner row confluent with the corresponding marginal ones. 

 Underside, much paler ; the usual basal dots. Foreiving, darker in the disc, a subcostal spot, 

 and two in ihe disc (one in the cell), violet-white ; an elongate median spot, three subapical, two 

 posterior minute, and a few small dots before the outer margin, white ; the internal margin 

 hoary, with an elevated spot and pearly streak, as usual, concealed. Hindiving with a spot 

 in the cell, and others very minute around it, violet-white ; the marginal spots as on upperside, 

 but longer and whiter. Female, wings much paler. Upperside : Forewing with a subcostal 



