2o6 NVMPHALID^. SATVKIN^. EI'INEPHELE. 



195- Epineplielo interposita, ErschofT. 



E. iitterf>oslta, Erschoff, Lep Turk., p. 22, n. 68, pi. ii, fig. 16 (\%Ta,'\, female ; id., Butler, Proe. Zool. 

 Soe Lond., 1S80, p. 405, n. 6, pi. x.\.\ix, fig. i, male. 



Habitat : Kandahar ; Turkestan. 

 Expanse : i -5 to i "95 inches. 



Description : Female : " Upperside fuscous, with an obsolete paler outer band. Fore^ 

 wing with a black ocellus before the apex, broadly circled with yellowish. Underside, 

 y2);<rrf//»^ yellowish-ferruginous, with the margin fuscescent-ashy. ///«r/w///^ fuscescenl-grey, 

 with a median fascia defined with fuscous, clouded with whitish exteriorly ; two small black 

 ocelli before the anal angle, with paler iris. Described from a single female." (Erschoff, 1. c. ) 

 The male is as yet undescribed, but has been well figured by Butler ; the following description 

 is taken from the figure. Male. Upperside brown, slightly darker on the outer margin. 

 Foreiuiitc' with a single black subapical spot with a pale inconspicuous iris. Underside, 

 foreivim; fulvous, the basal half slightly darker and defined by an almost obsolete angulate 

 median line ; the margins ashy-brown ; the black spot of the upperside but pupilled with white 

 and with yellow iris, the upper half encircleil with a fuscous line ; and a fuscous submarginal 

 line defining the fulvous area. Hituhving ashy-brown, finely striated with darker brown ; an 

 irregular discal dark line, beyond which the ground-colour is paler irrorated with whitish, 

 forming a pale fascia, and another similar pale submarginal fascia restricted to the anal half, and 

 uniting at the anal angle with the inner complete fascia ; two dark spots near anal angle. 



E. interposita is evidently very closely allied to E. cheena ; the only differences that 

 can be detected on comparing males of E. cheena with Mr. Butler's figure of the male are 

 in the somewhat paler colouration of the latter, and the brighter and more extended fulvous 

 patch on the underside of the forewing ; in E. cheena the underside of the forewing is often 

 ferru"ini)us rather than fulvous, and the patch is often ill-defined and somewhat obscure. 

 Erschoffs figure of the female differs from females of E. cheena much more conspicuously ; 

 on the upperside in E. interposita the ground-colour darkens to the middle of the wing, 

 where it is sharply defined on both wings, the submarginal band beyond being dull fulvous 

 on i\it fo reaving, and bearing a single subapical black spot, and on the hindioing obsolescent, 

 whereas in E- cheena the colour is uniform, there are often two black spots on the forewing, 

 and there is no trace of a submarginal band on the hindwing ; the irides of the spots on the 

 forewing are bright fulvous and often coalescent, forming an irregular submarginal band. 

 On the UNDERSiDKthe discal line on the /^;-«w'« «■ is less angulate in E. interposita, and there is 

 only one subapical ocellus ; on the hindtving there is no difference of importance, according 

 to the figure it is similar in general appearance to that of the male, except that the whole outer 

 half is paler, bearing a clouded submarginal band. 



E. interposita has been recorded from Chaman and Kandahar, and is therefore included in 

 our list ; but it is rare and has been found in no other place within our limits. Major Roberts 

 took one male in the middle of May, and one feniale at the end of May in the neighbourhood 

 of Kandahar. 



Of the former specimen Mr. Butler writes (Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 18S0, p. 403), "it is 

 much like a small E. pallescens, [see foot note, p. 207], male, on the upperside, but on the 

 underside all the brown areas are replaced by whitish, and there are two minute obliquely- 

 j laced ocelli near the anal angle of the hindwing as in E. hispullaP 



Of this group E. lycaon* from Europe and Western Asia is the typical species, and is 

 closely allied to E. cheena. The male differs on the upperside in having the black spot smaller, 



* Ef>iii^/>hele lycaon, Kiihn, Naturf., vol. iii, p. 21, pi. ii, figs, rf— /(1774). HtorrAx : Europe and Northern 

 and Western Asia Exhansk : ^lAiAr, r'g ; yt'«/.-»/(f, 22 inches. Oh.scriition : Malk. Ui'rKKSinit Inown. /^(j^f- 

 ■a//«^ with an indistinct silky sexual streak, a nebulous faintly irrorated submarginal fulvous band, and a black 

 subapical spot very indistinctly ringed. Hindxuing unmarked, except by a very indistinct subinarj;in.<l huuilar 

 band ; the cilia brown. Unokksihb : Forewing fulvous, shaded with fuscous along the margins ; the black spot 

 of the iipperside with di.stinct white pupil, but the iris scarcely discernible ; scarcely any trace of a median dark 

 line. Hiiiiiwing brown, faintly clonded with greyish on the disc, and finely freckled throughout with minute 

 fuscous scales ; no trace of ocelli, and the median angulate line scarcely visible. The femalk differs on the 



