194 NYMPHALIDTE. NYMPHALIN^. EUTHALIA. 



485. Euthalia derma, Koiiar. 



^(^(?//rti? ^t,-rwrr, KoUar, Hugel's K.ischmir, vol. iv, pt 2, p. 436,11. 2 (1848); 'Euthnlia. derma. Distant, 

 Rliop. Malay., p. 116, n. 1, pi. .\i.\-, flg. 4, wm/^ (1883) ; ^(?'(;//af ^w//««, race </<;/;««, Butler, Proc. Zool. Soc. 

 Lonil., 1868, p. 600, n. 4. 



Habitat : Masiui (AWA/;), Assam, Sylliet, Meigai, Malay Peninsula, Java, Borneo, 

 Celebes, Luzon. 



Expanse : ^ , 3-4 to 3-9 ; ? , 3 75 to 4-60 inches. 



Description : '* Male and female. Upperside fuliginous-brown. Foreidng with 

 the cell crossed by two waved blackish lines at the middle (between which [anteriorly] is a 

 prominent carmine spot), and two lines converging posteriorly at extremity. Uindzumg with a 

 faint blackish oblique line near the middle, and two prominent black lines at apex of the 

 cell. Both -wings crossed by a discal curved fuliginous fascia, commencing on the forewing 

 near the end of the cell, where it is broadest, and terminating on the hindwing near middle 

 of abdominal margin, where it is narrowest ; beyond the fascia the colour is slightly paler, 

 the hindwing possessing a somewhat faintly darker and very narrow submarginal fascia. 

 Underside pale greenish ; cellular markings of the yj7;r7£//«^ as above, but with the inter- 

 spaces between the pairs of lines pale brownish ; a subbasal fuscous streak outwardly margined 

 with white, and an irregular spot beneath the cell near the base of the first median nervule ; 

 cellular markings of hindwing as above, but with an additional curved black line beyond 

 apex, a similar but shorter mark near and between the bases of the discoidal and lower 

 subcostal nervules ; this is preceded by a rounded spot between the subcostal nervules, and a 

 larger and partly closed one containing a carmine spot between the upper subcostal nervule 

 and ihe costal nervure ; there is also a small carmine spot in cell ; a darker discal fascia crossing 

 both lungs as above, a similarly coloured broad submarginal fascia commencing on the fore- 

 wing at upper discoidal nervule and becoming obsolete on the hindwing at the median 

 nervules, followed by a waved and lunulate fascia broken between the nervules ; the forewing 

 also possesses a broad, darker, oblique, subapical patch, its margins and also the apical margin 

 of the hindwing more or less infuscated. " (Distant, I.e.) 



E. derma has a wide range, KoUar described it, probably incorrectly, from Masuri, but 

 it appears to be somewhat common in Sylhet, and occurs through the Malay peninsula to 

 the Philippines. It may at once be known from E. evelina by the colouration of the upperside 

 being distinctly brown, while the latter is green. 



486. Euthalia soma, Fcider. 



Adolias soma, Felder, Reise Novara, Lep., vol. iii, p. 432, n, 693 (1867); id , Butler, Proc. Zool. Soc. Loud., 

 1868, p. 600, n. 5 



Habitat : North India (^Felder'), Java {Butler). 

 Expanse : Not given. 



Description: "Male, Upperside as in A, [^E.'\eva, Felder, but without the 

 bronze tint. Fora.oing\v\\.h. the cellular markings broader, the inner one without the red spot, 

 the diffused fuscous band very obsolete, more excised. Hindwing with two cellular marks 

 (the disco-cellular much broader than in A. eva), the diffused fuscous discal streak much more 

 dentate than in that species, the submarginal more distinct. Underside as va. A. eva, but 

 much more powdered with bluish-white. Forewing with a white diffused but distinct apical 

 spot. Hindwing with the basal markings broader than in the species mentioned, the sub. 

 costal only including an obliterated red spot and the cellular including a dot of the same 

 colour. The " oz-^i^^" [? orbits of the eyes, which in E. detma and E. evelina are red] 

 whitish," 



"We received an unique specimen together with the preceding species [-4. ifz^a] ; the 

 inner and outer margins of the wings are longer and the apex of the forewing much less pro- 

 duced." {^Fdder, l,c.) 



