NYMPHALID^. DANAIN^. EUPLCEA. 89 



74. Euploaa limborfirll, Moore. 

 E. limhorgii^ Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond.. 1878, p. 823, pi. li, fig. 2, male. 

 Habitat : Upper Tenasserim, Mergui. 

 Expanse : 375 to 4-40 inches. 



Description: "Allied to E. deione from northern India. Upperside differs in the 

 fore-wing having some very indistinct suhmarginal white spots, and the hinchvinq having two 

 marginal rows of prominent white spots, similar to, but smaller than, those in E. margarita." 

 (^Mooie, 1. c.) 



Male: Upperside : /^jr^ry/w^ bordered with dark rufous, the rest of the wing velvety 

 black, with a rufous tinge in some positions, in others, splendid shining blue. A broad and 

 very long silky impressed streak on the interno-median area ; and a few indistinct marginal 

 dots near anal angle, sometimes entirely wanting. The inner margin slightly convex. Hind' 

 wing brown, along the median nervure it is suffused darker, and faintly shot with blue on 

 the darkest part ; a suhmarginal row of increasing spots, round at apex, and elongate towards 

 anal angle, and a marginal row of increasing spots, smaller and rounded throughout : in some 

 specimens both rows are complete, prominent, and pure white ; in others the spots are smaller, 

 powdered with brown, and obsolescent at apex. Underside brown, darkest along median 

 nervure oi forewing. Forewing, with the inner margin pale and whitish, a subcostal spot 

 above the end of the cell, one in the cell, and two discal (the upper one a very small streak), 

 violet-white, a prominent oval white spot between the first and second median nervules, and 

 a few small white marginal and suhmarginal spots, sometimes entirely wanting. Hindwing, 

 with the border rows of spots as on upperside, white ; and a spot in the cell, and five small 

 ones round the end of the cell, pale violet : the usual white basal dots. Female : Upperside, 

 as in the male, but the sexual streak is absent ; the inner margin oi forewing is straight, and 

 a single minute white spec is apparent on the disc between the first and second median 

 nervules. Hindwing identical, except that the border spots are as a rule more prominent, the 

 inner row rather more elongated. Underside exactly as in male, except that there is a 

 conspicuous lengthened violet- white streak on the interno-median area o[ foreiuing, 



E. limborgii is common in Upper Tenasserim from February till April, and perhaps at 

 other seasons. It was found by Limborg at Ahsown, 2,000 feet above the sea, above Ahsown, 

 at Hatsiega, and at the Houngduran source. Captain C. T. Bingham found it in the Meplay 

 valley in February, between Meeawady and Kankarit, and in the Thoungyeen forests in March, 

 and in the Donat range and the Thoungyeen forests in April. Dr. J. Anderson took three 

 males and a female in December, and one male in March in the Mergui archipelago. It flies 

 lazily in open cultivation and scrub jungle. 



E.pimvilli, described by Butler from Malacca, appears to be identical with this species, and, 

 if so, Butler's name would have the priority; but in the absence of specimens of /f./mz^///// 

 the point cannot be determined ; the original description of E. pinwilli* is appended. 



Seventh Group. — Stictoplcea, Butler. " Males for the most part with straight inner 

 margins like the females ; always with two well-defined sericeous brands on the interno-median 

 area, and placed one above the other. " (Butler, Journ. Linn. Soc, Zoology, vol. xiv, p. 301, 

 1878.) 



The males of the Indian species have the inner margin oi forewing bowed and quite distin- 

 guishable from those of the females ; but the double sericeous brand is a well-marked character. 



* E. pinwitti, hulUr. Habitat: Malacca. Expanse: 4 inches. Description: '•^Forewing brownish 

 piceous, purple-shot, slightly paler along the external border : a long sericeous interno-median streak. Hindiving 

 paler brown, deepest at base ; two marginal series of whitish spots, clear at anal angle, obsolescent and decreasing 

 towards apex; costal area greyish. Underside: Forewing, paler than above, with a subcostal spot, and an 

 elliptical interno-median spot, pinky white ; a spot in the cell, and two beyond it, bluish-white, two or three white 

 dots at external angle. Hindwing, with the suhmarginal spots clear whitish ; a spot in the cell and seven in an 

 arched series beyond it, lilaciiie whitish ; base and pectus white spotted. E,pinwiUi'\9> allied to E. menetriesii, 

 but larger, darker, and shot with puiple." (Butler, Trans. Linn. Soc, Zoology, second series, vol. i., p. 535, pi. 

 Ixix, fig. 91 1876, where the name is spelt E. pinwillii.) 



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