12 NYMPH AUD.^. NYMPIIALIN/E. EURYTELA. 



The larva and pupa of a Natal species (£. ///rtz-^^/j) described by Mr. Gooch are "both 

 conspicuous by their forms. The larva has two long divergent clubbed and rongh horns on 

 its head, and the pupa is remarkable by its angulated, excavated, and alated development. 

 Some of the larvce were green with black marks, and others were green all over."* 



Like the genera Ergolis and Byblia, Eurytela is represented in Africa as well as in the 

 Oriental region ; in fact it is in the former continent and in Madagascar that the majority of 

 the species included in it are to be found, Only two species occur in the East, one in the 

 Andaman Isles, Tenasserim and Java, the other in the Malay Peninsula, Sumatra and Borneo. 

 The former is remarkable from the very different aspect of the opposite sexes, the male being 

 dark blue, the female pale ochraceous. 



302. Eurytela horsfleldii, Boisduval. (Plate XVIII, Fig. 69 <?). 



E horsfieUii, Boisdiival, Faun. Ent. Madagasc, p. 54, n. i, viale ; E stephensii, idem, id., p. 55. n- 2 

 female (1833) ; E- horsficldi, Wallace, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1869, p. 331, n. 2. 



Habitat : Andaman Isles, Tenasserim, Java. 



Expanse : 2-i to 2-3 inches. 



Description : Male, " Wings dentated, on the upperside black-blue, with a common 

 dlscoidal evanescent pale fascia. Underside blackish-grey, with four undulating black lines : 

 the hindwing rounded, fornvin^ with the apex produced." Female. " Wings dentated, 

 blackish-ferruginous, with four undulating black lines, and a common discoidal fascia, inter- 

 rupted in the forewing, luteous. Underside paler, the hmdiving rounded, \\\& forewing 

 with the apex produced." {Boisduval, 1. c.) 



Male. Upperside deep blue-black. Forewing with a subapical bluish-white diffused 

 oblique streak, and another wider one across the middle of the disc, commencing just above the 

 .second median nervule, and ending on the inner margin, both these streaks inwardly sharply 

 defined, outwardly diffused, and followed by a slaty-blue band extending almost to the margin 

 which is black, and bearing a submarginal waved line dilated at the costa. Within 

 the lower bluish-white streak and below the median nervure to the inner margin the ground-colour 

 of the wing is slaty-blue. Hmdiving divided into the following bands : — A slaty-blue basal one, 

 a broad bluish-white one, then a narrower blue one, a broad deep blue-black band and the 

 margin blue. The disco-cellular nervules marked with a black line. C///^ white. Under- 

 side, both wings French-grey, mottled with blackish throughout, especially so across the disc, 

 the margin palest ; crossed by a basal nearly straight black line, two hardly-traceable discal 

 ones, which are nearly lost in the dark ground-colour of that portion of the wing, and a very 

 zigzag submarginal one. The disco-celiulars marked with a black line. Female ferruginous- 

 ochreous, instead of deep blue-black as in the male, markings pale ochreous instead of 

 bluish-white ; cilia dusky. Forrcuing with a reniform mark near the middle of the cell, followed 

 immediately by a dark line which is continued across the base of the hindwing ; the disco- 

 cellular nervules defined by a dark line. The bluish-white subapical and discal bands of 

 the male replaced by pale clear ochraceous ones, followed by a lunular blackish line, and 

 then a submarginal one as in the male. Hindtving with the base ferruginous-ochreous, 

 beyond which the disc is broadly pale ochraceous, the disco-cellulars marked with a dark 

 fine line, beyond which is an irregular fine dark line from the costa to the submedian nervure, 

 followed by a darker and more regular line, within which towards the anal angle the ground- 

 colour is mottled ferruginous, and beyond it to the margin it is dark ferruginous, with a 

 submarginal black line, which is straight from the anal angle to the third median nervule, 

 from thence to the outer angle it is waved. Underside, both loings pale ochreous, mottled 

 with blackish ferruginous. The disco-cellulars marked with a dark line, and the wings 

 crossed at nearly equal distances by four dark lines, the third from the base being on the 

 hindwing the widest and darkest. The margin defined with a dark line. 



* Quoted by Mr. Distant in his Khop. Malay , p 136. 



