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length ; firs¢ and second subcostal nervules short, first emitted at nearly one-half before the end 
of the cell, second at one-fourth before the end, ¢hird at one-third beyond the cell, /ourth 
terminating at the apex, #/7/ (or upper radial) from the end of the cell ; désco-cellular nervules 
slender, almost straight, the vadia/ [lower discoidal nervule] from their middle ; déscoidal cell 
long, extending fully to half the wing ; second median nervule emitted at a short distance before 
the end of the cell, /rs¢ median at one-half before its end ; submedian nervure straight. H1Nnp- 
WING, ovate, short ; costal mervure very convex from the base, extending to the apex ; first 
subcostal nervule emitted at one-fourth before the end of the cell ; désco-cellular nervules very 
slender, the vadia/ from their middle ; ¢hird and second median nervules from the end of the cell, 
frst median at half distance before the end; sadmeatan nervure straight ; ternal nervure recurved, 
[long]. FEMALE. FOREWING, less triangular, exterior margin convex, fosterior margin long. 
HINDWING, convex externally. Bopy slender, addomen long; [eyes naked] ; a/fi long, slender, 
clothed with very short hairy scales, second joint projecting half its length beyond the head, 
third joint half its length ; /egs short, femora delicately pilose beneath, fore ¢arsé of the male 
minutely spinous at the side ; av¢enn@ short, with a thickened club.” (Moore, 1. c. in Lep. Cey.) 
Mr. Moore, from Dr. Thwaites’ observations in Ceylon, figures the larva of this species 
with elongated divergent pointed processes or tubercles, Mr. E. E, Green has sent me 
drawings of quite a different larva, which entirely lacks these processes, being covered instead 
with minute dark bristles, and furnished with a lateral fringe of bairs. Mr. Moore gives the food- 
plant as Euphorbiacee. Mr. Green says the larva is carnivorous. Mr. Moore shows the pupa 
hanging down free and at right angles toa horizontal leaf stalk, a most unusual position to be 
assumed by a pupa of this family, though the pupa of Porttia hartertit, Doherty, hangs free, but 
in a different position. Mr, Green has not informed me of the position assumed by his pupz. 
The genus Sfa/gis is a very small one, containing only five or six described species, It 
occurs in India, Ceylon, the Andamans, in Nias Island (S. fazgola, Kheil), in Amboina (S. pharnus, 
Felder), in Celebes (S. sudstrigata, Snellen), and the Island of Hainan off the south coast of 
China (S. d/ama, Moore). All the species are very closely allied, are small, on the upperside of 
a dark brown colour slightly tinged with violet, with a small pale patch in the male, usually with 
a larger one in the female ; the underside is grey, crossed by numerous very fine zigzag dark 
brown lines, with a prominent whitish oval spot at the end of the cell in the forewing ; this spot 
is sometimes seen in the hindwing also, The sexes differ a good deal in shape, the outer margin 
of the forewing being very straight and the apex acute in the male, the outer margin highly 
convex and the apex rounded in the female. Mr. Doherty notes that “the egg of Spalgis is 
flattened above and delicately reticulated with irregular hexagons. Its position can hardly 
be understood till the insects of tropical Africa, the great storehouse of low forms of Zycenide, 
are better known.” (Journ. A. S. B., vol. lviii, pt. 2, p. (1889). 
Koy to the Indian species of Spalgis. 
A. Forewing, upperside in the male with a prominent white discal spot, in the female with a broad 
white discal area. 
642. S. Epius, India, Ceylon, Burma. 
B. Forewing, upperside in both sexes with inconspicuous discal spots. 
643. S. NuBitus, South Andaman Isles, Borneo. 
642. Spalgis epius, Westwood. (PLATE XXVI, Fic. 163 ¢). 
Lucia efius, Westwood, Gen. Diurn. Lep., vol. ii, p. 502,n, 2; Geridus efeus, Doubleday and Hewitson, 
1. c., pl. Ixxvi, fig. 5, female (1852); Spalgis epius, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1879, p. 137; idem, id,, 
Lep. Cey., vol. i, p. 71, pl xxxiv, figs. 1, wale; 1a, female; 1b, larve and pupe (1881). 
HasitaT: Malda, Sikkim, Calcutta, South India, Ceylon, Burma, 
EXPANSE: ‘9 to I‘2inches, 
DESCRIPTION : ‘‘On the UNDERSIDE, Jo/h wings of this species are dirty whitish coloured, 
with a number of very slender equidistant irregular undulating brown lines, without ocelli; 
and the discoidal cell of the forewing with a small brown dot near the base, and another oval 
and transverse in the middle.” (Westwood, 1. c.) 
‘*MALE. UPPERSIDE, Joth wings violet-brown. Forewing with a white quadrate spot from 
the end of the cell. UNDERSIDE, doth wings greyish-white, with indistinct pale brown oval basal 
