OO NVMI'IIALID/E. DANAIN.T:. EUPLCEA. 



None of the species are common; one species occurs in Burma; three closely allied and 

 doubtfully distinct species are described from N.-E. India ; one is found in south India, 

 and another distinct species is found only in Ceylon. The Burman species is very distinct, 

 with the forcwing splendidly shot with blue, no spots on the disc, and a double marginal 

 series of white spots on the hindwing. The N.-E. Indian species has the forewing with 

 numerous paler blue spots on the disc, and but few marginal spots on the hindwing ; the 

 Ceylon species lacks the splendid blue shot ; but both these have the two sericeous bands large 

 and well defined as in the Euplaas of the alcatho'e and deione types. E. coreoules, the south 

 Indian form, has almost exactly the colouration of E. core and E. asela, and strangely enough, 

 like them, has the sexual brands small and inconspicuous. 



Zey to tbe Indian species of Stictoploea. 



C. c. Males with two well-defined brands on the interno-median area of the forewing. 



a.' Upperside dark velvety olive-brown, palest externally, with a double row of whitish spots 

 along the border of both wings as in A", coi-e. 



75. E. {Stict0j>l(£a) COREOIDES, S. India. 



i.' Upperside deep rufescent swarthy, tinged with violet on basal area ; border spots of fore- 

 wing evanescent or wanting. 



76. E. ( Stictoploea ) Montana, Ceylon, 

 c' Upperside forewing shot with vivid blue. 



a." With no discal spots on forewing. 



77. E. ( Stictoploea ) GROTEt, Tenasserim. 

 b ' With numerous discal spots on forewing. 



78. '&. (Stictoploea) hopei, N.-E. India* 



79. E. {Stictoploea) binotata, N.-E. India. 



80. E. ( Stictoploea ) microsticta, N.-E. India. 



In the Lepidoptera of Ceylon, p. 13, Moore has taken E. coreoides as the type of yet another 

 genus, which, under the name of Narmada, he characterises as follows : — " Forewing elongat- 

 ed, triangular ; costa slightly arched ; apex somewhat acute ; exterior margin oblique ; posterior 

 [inner ?] margin in male slightly convex, with two sericeous streaks between the median and 

 submedian nervures : hindwing triangular. " In what way this is supposed to differ from 

 Stictoplcca of Butler, or why Butler's name for this section has been dropped, there is apparently 

 nothing to show. The one single definite expression in the description, namely, the pre.sence 

 of two sericeous brands in the male, is precisely the point on which Butler's prior designation 

 is founded. 



75- Euploea coreoides, Moore. 



E. coreoides, Moore, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., fourth series, vol. xx, p. 44 (1S77). 



Habitat : Malabar, Nilgiris, Wynaad, Trevandrum. 



Expanse : $ , 3-25 to 3-60 ; $ , 3-50 inches. 



Description : "Allied to E. r*?;,? (which is also found in the same locality), but distin- 

 guished by the two elongated silky impressed marks in the male, the male of E, core having 

 but a single short narrow mark. Male and female, dark velvety olive-brown, palest externally. 

 Male : Upperside : Forewing, with a prominent submarginal and marginal series of small 

 white spots ; two elongated silky impressed marks between first median nervule and submedian 

 nervine. Hindiving, with broader series of white oval and rounded submarginal and smaller 

 rounded marginal spots. Underside paler ; marginal spots as above ; both wings with a small 

 white spot at the end of the cell, and contiguous series beyond. Female, with marginal spots 

 as in male, the submarginal series on both uiitgs above, and the discal se:ies on foreiuing 

 beneath being larger. " {Moore, 1. c.) 



The female of this species is so slightly different from the same sex of E. core that it is only 

 by the following points they can be distinguished : First, by the outline of the forewing being 

 more entire ; in E. core it is slightly but perceptibly scalloped. Second, on the underside of the 

 forewing having a complete series of six spots, one between each pair of nervules outside the 

 cell ; in E. core two of these spots, those above the discoidal nervules, are always wanting. 



