NYMPIIALID.^. NYMPHALIN^. EURIPUS. 17 



305. Buripus conslmilis, Westwood. 



Dtadema onsimilis, Westwood, Gen. Diurn. Lep., vol. ii, p. 281, n. 20, note, female (1830) ; Euripus 

 comimilh, Wood-Ma^on, Journ. A. S. B., vol. 1, pt. 2, p. 83, n. i, pi. iv, fig. 3, female (1881) ; id , Butler, 

 Ann. and Mag. of Nat. Hist , fifth series, vol. ix, p. 405 (1882) ; Euripus hallirothiiis.'WcstviooA.V c , p. 

 ■93i n. 2, note, male ; E. coHsimilis, var. meridionalis, Wood-Mason, 1. c, p. 86, n. 2, pi. iv, fig. 2, female. 

 Habitat : Himalayas, Eastern Ghats, South India, Assam, Upper Tenasseriai. 

 Expanse: ^,2-3 to 2-8; ?, 2'8 to 3-35 inches. 



Description: Male: Upperside, ''forrwing black with streaks of whitish elongate 

 spots. Hindwing whitish with the veins narrowly black, the border black with white spots, and 

 with four red spots placed transversely at the anal angle. Underside, hindwing also spotted 

 with red at the base." Female : Upperside, " wings white, the costa of the foreimno, the 

 veins, three oblique spots and the outer margin black. Hindivitig white, the veins narrowly, the 

 outer margin (spotted with white), and a transverse short band beyond the middle black. 

 Underside, hindwing marked at the base with a small carmine spot." QVesiwood, 1. c.) 



Male : Upperside, 7&;vzw«?- deep indigo-blue, with the following pale yellow markings :— 

 a short narrow streak in the cell from the base touching the subcostal nervure, a smaller streak 

 placed outwardly below it, a large somewhat quadrate spot placed obliquely across the end 

 of the cell, beyond it three narrow duplex streaks placed between the nervules, and a spot at 

 the base of each of the median interspaces, the lower much the larger. A discal series of narrow 

 streaks from the costa to the submedian nervure placed in pairs ; a marginal series of rounded 

 spots not reaching the apex ; a lengthened streak in the submedian interspace with a short one 

 placed below it at its outer end, and an obsolete streak in the internal interspace. Hindioing 

 pale yellow, the veins black ; the outer margin widely black from the anal angle to the discoidal 

 nervule, thence to the apex narrowly black. A marginal series of small round dots placed 

 two in each interspace ; four carmine submarginal spots from the anal angle, the three outer ones 

 rounded, the one at the anal angle somewhat linear. Underside as above, the base of the 

 hindwing marked with carmine. Thorax black, streaked and spotted with pale yellow, the abdo- 

 men black streaked with yellow. AntenncB, haustellum, and «7/a black. Female, ground-colour 

 usually pure dazzling- white, but variable ; in an Eastern Ghat specimen it is pale yellow, darker 

 on the hindwing, where it may be described as being of a pale gamboge-yellow colour ; in the 

 Travancore specimen, separately described under the name of var. jfieridionalis, it is straw- 

 coloured. Markings deep indigo-blue, almost black, also variable, being much more extensive in 

 some specimens than in others. Forewing with the costa black, an oblique black spot across the 

 middle of the cell and a larger one closing it ; an angled discal black band from the costa to the 

 first median nervule, the portion below the angle at the third median nervule much wider than 

 the portion above it ; the apex widely and the outer margin less widely black and bearing 

 a series of white rounded spots, small at the anal angle, becoming obsolete and lengthened out 

 into streaks at the apex. All the veins marked with black. Hindzving with all the veins black, 

 an irregular black patch across the disc from the discoidal nervule to the submedian nervure 

 sometimes reduced to spots placed on the nervules, in other specimens quite obsolete ; the 

 margin black, bearing rounded white spots placed in pairs between the nervules, variable in 

 size. Underside much as above, the base of the hindwing marked with carmine. 



A female from the extreme south of the peninsula has been separately described under 

 the name var. w^n'^wMfl/zj as follows : "Differs ixoxa. E. c<?««';«//7j in having the markings of 

 the upperside of both rvings straw-coloured instead of pure and dazzling white ; the basal two- 

 thirds of the long streak in the interno-median space, as also the streak below the submedian 

 nervure of the forewing obsolete, and the submarginal short streaks at the apex of that wing 

 as prominent as those which succeed them ; and all the veins of the hindwing much more 

 broadly dark-bordered, with the black patch referred to in the original description of E. con- 

 similis consequently much less defined. Both wings are bright carmine at their insertion on 

 the underside just as in typical E. consintilis." (^Wood-Mason, 1. c.) 



With reference to the above Mr. Butler has written the following note :— " It would be 

 supposed from the above description [by Mr. Westwood of E. consirni/is] that the ground-colour 



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