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Third, the two biniids on the interno-median area of the upperside of the forewing in tlie male 

 are faintly, but still quite perceptibly, to be traced in the female in the same position. These 

 three points of difference are constant in the three female specimens before us— one from Banga- 

 lore, one from Ootacamund, and the third fronti Trevandrum. It is just possible that with a larger 

 series of females some might be found with one or more of the discal spots wanting, but the 

 outline of the forewing is probably an unvarying character of this species, as it is very per- 

 ceptible in all the males we have seen. 



E. coreo'ides appears to be confined to south India, and is not common. Mr. H. S. Fer- 

 guson has sent us two specimens taken near Trevandrum on the 2nd May ; and the Indian 

 Museum has two specimens taken at Conoor in August, also specimens taken at Bangalore and 

 O'tacainund. A Trevandrum female shews an approach to the Ceylon E. viontana in the 

 marginal series of spots on \\^c foreivittg becoming obsolescent. 



76. Euploea montaaa, Feider. 



£■. C(7«Jz«/i7/V var. ;«(»/:/a«(i, Felder, Reise Nov., Lep., vol. iii, p. 330, n. 454 (^\1,(>$'.\ Euplxa lankana, 

 Moore, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., fourth series, vol. xx, p. 44 (1877) ; Stictopla;a.\lankana, Butler, Journ. Linn. 

 Soc, Zoology, vol. xiv, p. 302 (1878); Narmada montaKa, Moore, Lep, Cey., p. 13, pi. vi, fig. i (i83o), male. 



Habitat : Ceylon. 



Expanse : 3*0 to 3*95 inches. 



Description : Male : "Allied to E, consiniilis* from Java, but larger, wings broader, 

 and spots smaller, those before the margin of \hQ forewing evanescent. Female : Upperside : 

 Foi-etving, with the pale border broader, two subcostal violet spots, the interior depressed spots 

 much narrower, more obsolete. Hindwing with larger spots. Underside : Both wings 

 almost as in the male, but the/orewing with the spot as on upperside before the middle of the 

 costa, and another beyond the lowest disco-cellular nervule, minute." {Feider, 1. c.) 



The following more detailed description of this species is given by Moore in the 

 *' Lepidoptera of Ceylon : — " 



" Male and Female : Upperside dark velvety olive-brown, paler externally. Forewing 

 with a submarginal and marginal row of very small indistinct ochreous-white spots. Male with 

 two elongated sericeous streaks between the first median nervule and submedian nervure. 

 Hindwing with a submarginal and marginal row of ochreous-white spots, the former oval from 

 the anal angle and duplex anteriorly, the latter smaller and round. Underside paler, marginal 

 white spots as above, those on forewing more prominent, both wings with a .small white spot 

 at end of the cell, and a contiguous discal curved series beyond. Body blackish ; thorax, head, 

 palpi, and abdomen beneath, white-spotted ; forelegs white streaked beneath." 



" Captured at Rambodde, Galle, and Kandy." A single specimen, the only one we have 

 seen, sent to us by the Hon'ble F. Mackwood from Ceylon, has the spots of the forewing 

 almost entirely obsolete on the upperside ; the shape of the forewing, and its dark velvety 

 almost entirely unspotted appearance, distinguish this species from the south Indian E, coreoides 

 at a glance. 



77- Euploea grotOi, Feider. 

 E,grotei, Feider, Reise Nov., Lep., vol. ii, p. 339, n. 470, pi. xli, fig. 7 (1865), female ; Eupleea grotei, 

 Butler, Trans. Linn. Soc, Zoology, second series, vol. i, p. 535 {1876) ; Stktoplxa grotei, id., Journ. Linn. Soc, 

 Zoology, vol. xiv, p. 302 (1878). 



Habitat : Cochin, Mergui, Upper Tenasserim, Malacca. 



Expanse : 3 '2 to 4*2 inches. 



Description : " Male : Upperside : Forewing blackish-chestnut and, except on outer 

 margin which is paler, vivid violet-blue in certain positions; a [two ?] rather long interior silky 



* E. consiniilis, Feider. Habitat: Java. Expanse: not given. Description: "Male: Upperside. 

 Forewing deep rufesrent swarthy, and, except on the external border, which is widely and increasingly much 

 paler, faintly tinted with violet in certain positions ; the two usual silky internal spots ; submarginal spots in a 

 bent series, and dots before the margin, increasing, white. Hindtmitg paler, paling beyond the cell, the anterior 

 area with the usual powdery appearance j and with a costal vilta somewhat pearly white ; submarginal spots 

 rather large, increasing, and others before the margin smaller, white, powdered with brown. Underside, much 

 paler, the basal dots white, the marginal spots of the upperside but whiter and a little larger. Foreiuing A^xV.zx 

 about the median nervure, with two elevated interior spots as usual ; the internal margin pearly-hoary ; with a 

 suhcostal spot, two beyond it, and thiee in the disc, violet-while. _ Hindwing with a spot in the cell, and seven 

 others small around the end of the cell, violet-white." {Feider, Reise Nov., Lep., vol. ii, p. 32'j, n. 434, 1865.; 



