NYMPHALID.E. DANAIN^. EUPLCTIA. 87 



spot, and three discal (one in the cell), violet-white ; two or three posterior spots, a few dots 

 before the outer margin, and often with two minute subapical spots, white. Hindwtn^ with 

 the costal margin hoary-white, the spots as in the male, but the interior ones longer. 

 Undkrside almost as in the male, but the discal spots, and the posterior spots of the fottwnig, 

 much larger, Foitioiug with an interior much elongated spot, violet white " {Feldei,\. c.) 



The above description is taken from Felder's description of ^. r/<7wW«/rty/, which was 

 redescrihed as distinct on account of Godnrt's original desciiption of E. akathoe purporting 

 to be from an Amboyna specimen ; but there is no doubt that Godart's locality was incorrect, 

 and the name E. alcathoc will stand for this species. The male of E. akathoe is a veiy 

 black insect, the violet suffusion being scarcely perceptible ; and, in the female especially, 

 the veiy elongated narrow submarginal streaks form a conspicuous distinctive character. On 

 the underside of the forewing of the male the three subapical spots, two minute posterior 

 ones, and the few small dots before the outer margin referred to in the description above, are 

 entirely absent in some specimens, and more or less so in others. 



E. akathoe was found by Limborg in Upper Tenasserim at Ahsown, at 2,000 feet eleva- 

 tion, and Captain C. H. E. Adamson has sent a single male specimen from Moulmein ; 

 it has also been taken by Captain Bingham, who has been collecting over the same ground. In 

 Sikkim and Sylhet it appears to be not uncommon. At Shillong a single female specimen 

 was taken in May by the late Mr. J. P. Cock. In this specimen the marginal dots of the 

 forewing are almost obsolete, and the submarginal series is nearly complete, the lowest spot 

 being much the larger. Mr. Wood-Mason found it in profusion in Cachar during the summer. 

 Dr. J. Anderson sent numerous specimens to the Indian Museum, Calcutta, collected during 

 the winter, in the Mergui Archipelago. 



The figure shews the upperside of a male and female from Sylhet specimens in the Indian 

 Museum, Calcutta. 



72' Euplcsa menetrlesll, Feider. 



E. menetriesit, Feider, Wein. Ent. Monatsch., vol. iv, p. 398,11. 15 (i860). 



Habitat : Nepal, Assam {Butler), Malacca {Feider), Siam, Borneo. 



Expanse: (Not stated.) 



Description : " Wings elongate. Forewing of the male with the inner margin rather 

 convex. Upperside deep blackish swarthy, in certain positions shining with violet, with a 

 rather broad velvety internal streak, ^isr^wiw^ of the female obscure brown, Hindwing'xa. 

 both sexes brown ; on the upperside with elongate external spots, and obsolete marginal spots, 

 white; on the underside with the spots of the upperside white, distinct; and seven others 

 discal (one in the cell), violet-tinted. Approaches E. akathoe^ but the wings are elongate, 

 the form of the velvety stripe in the male, and the markings in the female, are different." 

 {Feider, 1. c ) 



This species is unknown to us. In all probability the localities " Nepal, Assam " 

 are erroneous, and if found within Indian limits it is most likely to occur in Tenasserim. 

 The description of the male of this species accords closely with that of £ limborgii,\)\x\.'\.\.\s 

 stated that it is allied to E. akathoe, and the female is, as in E. akathoe, obscure brown, whereas 

 in E. limborgii the female is coloured similarly to the male and equally shot with splendid blue. 



The next two species are distinguished from all other true Euplceas by the almost 

 (generally quite) spotless velvety blackish forewing, splendidly shot with blue, except perhaps 

 from the foregoing, E, meiieti-iesii, which is said to have the forewing equally spotless and 

 shining with violet. In E. deiotie from Assam the hindwing is spotless also, or nearly so ; in 

 E. Ivnborgii from Tenasserim the hindwing has a conspicuous double row of white border 

 spots, the inner somewhat elongate ; and in E. viemtriesii, which also has these border spots, the 

 inner row is said to be elongate, " approaching E. akathoe^' which E. limborgii can hardly 

 be said to do. 



