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The FEMALE I. Form, which is a mhiiic of E. rhadanianthiis, has been described under 

 the name Hestina isa by Mr. Moore as follows : — 



E. zVfl. " Female : Upperside, forewing dnsky-hrown, darker and somewhat bluish on 

 apical half ; a broad oblique short white patch from middle of costal margin, intersected by 

 three of the veinlets ; a whitish mark in middle of discoidal cell, and some narrow longitudinal 

 white marks at the apex ; also an indistinct marginal row of small whitish spots. Hindwing 

 dusky-brown, with the middle of the wing to abdominal margin white, intersected by the veins ; 

 also a marginal and submarginal row of small bluish-white spots from anal angle. Underside 

 paler brown, and marked as above. Wings shaped as in H. \_ = Euripiis\ consimilis." {Moore, 

 1. c.) This form is variable ; a specimen from Shillong in the Indian Museum, Calcutta, differs 

 from Sikkim ones in being pale brown on the upperside of the forewing ; the hindwing being 

 almost entirely white, the outer margin only, and a discal series of elongate streaks being 

 very pale brown. Another specimen also from Shillong in Major Marshall's collection differs 

 only from Sikkim examples in having the submarginal series of round spots on the upperside 

 of the forewing larger, while another example has these spots obsolete, the whole of the dark 

 margin which bears them hair-brown instead of purplish. 



The FEMALE II. Form, which mimics the male of E. midamus, has been described as 

 Diadema nydilius by Mr, Doubleday, and as Eitrlpus cinnamomeus by Mr. Wood-Mason, 

 as follows : — 



E, nydilius. Female. «' /v7r«£//;/f brownish black, the apex broadly shaded with pale 

 blue, the colour varying with the direction of the light ; between the nervules is a series of 

 whitish stride, becoming less elongate towards the anal angle. Hiiidiving dusky white, fuscous 

 at the base, the outer margin narrowly fuscous, the colour extending inwards between the 

 nervules, which also are fuscous. Underside : Foramug fuscous, with a marginal series 

 of whitish spots, and two submarginal ones near the anal angle. Hindwing fuscous ; the 

 inner margin and a double series of ill-defined spots towards the outer margin, of which 

 those of the inner series are rounded, of the outer elongate, geminate, whitish. Head and 

 thorax black with white dots. Antenns with an elongate club, fuscous. Abdomen, fuscous." 

 •' This species closely resembles some of the Indian EuplxiS." {Doubleday, 1. c.) 

 E. cinnamomeus. "Female: Upperside, /i»/-^:c/«o- purplish black-brown, darkest at 

 the base and along the edges, and glossed with steel-blue on the disc, with a conspicuous 

 suboval or subtriangular patch of changeable lilac-blue divided by the dark veins, commencing 

 broadly just in front of the ultimate subcostal fork, and rapidly narrowing to the inner angle, 

 and with an indistinct submarginal series of small roundish white spots placed upon the inner 

 edge of the narrow black-brown outer border, and extending from the inner angle up to the 

 thi^d median nervule. Hindwing black-brown of a richer tint, broadly and interdigitatingly 

 bordered externally with clear cinnamon-brown, which is traversed by the dark brown veins, 

 and bears midway between the black base and the wavy purplish-black narrow outer border, 

 a series of four impressed white specks all encircled internally with black-brown, one m each 

 interspace from the first median to the second subcostal nervule, and, at its junction with the 

 wavy black outer border, a similar but more complete series of white specks, two to 

 each interspace (except the second, in which there are four, the middle one of the three 

 being divided) from the internal nervure to the first subcostal nervule, are all roundish, 

 except the first two. which present the form of linear marks parallel to the outer margm. 

 Underside, both win^s cinnamon-brown narrowly bordered externally with purplish black- 

 brown with the veins rich dark brown, and the submarginal spots more numerous and distinct 

 than above. Fornving slightly darker for the basal two-thirds, with a short streak 

 of pale lilac between the first and second median nervules near the base of the cell and 

 an ill-defined roundish clump of scales of the same colour beyond it, an externally forked 

 streak of dark violet-blue occupying the basal two-thirds of the interno-med.an area and 

 followed by an indistinct clump of violet-grey scales, a grey streak in the apical half of the 

 inner margin, and a submarginal series of violet-white spots situated upon the '""er edge 

 of the black outer border, and extending from the inner margm to the apex, with all the 



