92 NYMPIIALIDvE. DANAIN/E. EUPLCEA. 



spot [s ?] and some small chalky-white dots before the outer margin. Himhving paler, in certain 

 positions suffused with violet ; the external margin broadly and increasingly much paler ; the 

 anterior area powdery, with the usual somewhat pearly costal band ; external spots irregularly 

 elongate-oval, and others before the margin smaller, increasing, chalky-white ; the uppermost, 

 except where obsolete, best defined, the lowest and last but one of the external row blending 

 with the lowest and last but one of the marginal spots. Underside much paler, with the 

 usual basal dots. Forewing a little darker in the disc; a subcostal spot, and two discal (one 

 in the cell) small, violet-wdiite ; an elongate median spot; and others before the lower outer 

 margin, chalky-white ; the usual interior elevated spot, and internal band somewhat pearly, 

 pale at base. Hindwing with a spot in the cell, and six outside unequal (the second small), 

 violet-white, encircled with swarthy; the marginal spots as on the upperside but larger, and all 

 best defined on the underside. Female: Upperside: /^3ri?wz>?f almost to the margin in certain 

 positions vivid violet-blue ; small submarginal spots and dots before the margin pale violet-blue, 

 powdered with white. Hindwing darker, and in certain positions more suffused with violet 

 than in the male, the costal margin much paler, with a concealed somewhat pearly band ; the 

 submarginal spots rather large, and others before the margin smaller, white, purer than in the 

 male. Underside much paler, basal dots white. Forewing with a subcostal spot, two beyond 

 it (the lower narrow, minute), and three rather large, discal (one in the cell) on a darker base, 

 bluish-white, circled with blackish; small increasing submarginal dots, and others small before 

 the margin, circled with swarthy, and a rather long violet-white interior linear spot ; the inner 

 margin pearly-hoary. Hindwing with a rounded spot in the cell, and six others in an angulated 

 row beyond it, violet-white, small ; the marginal spots as on upperside." {Felder, 1. c.) 



A single specimen of a Stictoplcea, which apparently belongs to this species, was sent 

 by Captain C. H. E. Adamson, from Upper Tenasserim, where it was taken on the lith 

 February, 1881. It is a male, and differs somewhat from Felder's original description. The 

 forewing \% shining violet-purple over the whole area to the extreme outer margin, and bears a 

 complete submarginal series of rather small, but prominent violet spots, with a series of smaller 

 marginal spots of the same colour obsolete near the apex ; in the hindwing the outer border 

 is scarcely perceptibly paler, 1 and the double series of white spots is complete, the outer being 

 rounded or slightly angulate, the inner larger, oval. On the underside the markings corre- 

 spond exactly with the description, but there is in addition a violet spot on i\\Q forewinghtyond 

 the cell, and above the upper discoidal nervule. It differs from E. hopei on the forewing in 

 the entire absence of discal spots, and on the hindwing in the presence of the double com- 

 plete series of white spots. Another specimen (male) was subsequently taken at Moulmein by 

 Captain Adamson, feeding at a flowering tree in company with numerous other Etiplaas, in- 

 cluding E. godartii, E. crassa, E. masoni, E. alcathoe, and E. niargarita ; and subsequently 

 numerous specimens were taken in the autumn in the Thoungyeen forests, by Captain C. T. 

 Bingham, including one female. These specimens vary much in size, but all agree with the 

 first specimen taken by Captain Adamson, and there can be no doubt that they are the E, groiei 

 of Felder. Dr. J. Anderson took one male in January, and two in March in the Mergui 

 archipelago. 



The FEMALE only differs from the male in the absence of the sexual marks, and the 

 straight inner margin of the forewing. 



78. Buploea liopei, Felder. (Plate IX, Fig. 18 ^ ?). 



E. hopci, Felder, Reise Nov., Lep., vol. ii, p. 328, n. 452 (1865); Stictoplma hopei, Butler, Journ. Linn. See, 

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



Habitat : N.-E. India, Sikkim, Naga Hills, Cachar. 



Expanse : 38 to 4*3 inches. 



Description : " Male : Upperside : Foreiving chestnut-swarthy, and in certain positions 

 vivid violet-blue ; the two usual silky interior spots, a spot within the cell, two median, one 

 subcostal, three beyond the cell, and seven or eight others, larger, submarginal, in a bent series, 

 and from two to six dots before the outer margin, violet-bluish. Hittdiuing deep swarthy, and, 



