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resting-place, and l)ask again. It soon gets battered, and is difficult to capture." Mr. Hock- 

 ing says* that it "Flies about oaks. June to September." I have taken it commonly in 

 Simla at about 5,000 feet ; it is very partial to over-ripe peaches, plums, &c. Major C. H. T. 

 Marshall has taken it in Chumba ; in Kumaon it is abundant near Naini Tal in the middle of 

 the rains ; and Dr. Scully has sent numerous specimens from Nepal. 



491. Euthalia iva, Moore. 



Adolias iva, Moore. Horsfield and Moore, Cat. Lep. Mus. E. I. C, vol i, p. 195, n. 395 (1857); 'dem, id.. 

 Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., new series, vol. v, p 78, n. 36, pi. viii, fig. 2 (1^59). 



Habitat : Sikkim. 



Expanse : 4 inches (Moore) ; 4^4 on plate. 



Description: "Male: Upperside very dark olive-green. Forewing with oblique row 

 of large, long, greenish-white spots from middle of costal margin to near posterior angle, 

 beneath which is a small narrow geminated spot near the middle of the posterior margin ; also 

 two small spots obliquely near the apex, and a small whitish patch at the posterior angle. 

 Hindwing with a row of broadly-separated small round greenish-white spots curving from mid- 

 dle of costal margin to middle of the wing ;also black marks within discoidal cell. Underside 

 deep greenish-grey, dusky about the anterior half, and blackish along the posterior margin : 

 markings as above, but the spots on the hindwihg extending nearly to abdominal margin, 

 Shape of wings as in Adolias \_-E. uthaltd\ epiona [= ^. patala']. Adolias iva may be 

 known from A. epmja [=E.patald\ by its very dark upperside, and by the oblique band being 

 composed of much longer spots, and by its deep greyish-green underside." {Moore, 1. c. in 

 Ca.t . Lep. Mus. E. I. C. ) 



I have never seen this species. In Mr. Moore's figure the three lower spots of the discal 

 series of the forewing are very much elongated and pointed outwardly, and the presence of two 

 small spots just below the middle of the first median nervule, the upper one almost touching 

 it, is an unusual and distinctive feature. 



492. Euthalia taooana, Moore. 



Adolias taooana, Moore. Proc. Zool. Soc. Lend., 187S, p 831. 



Habitat : Upper Tenasserim, Taoo, 3,000 to 5,000 feet. 



Expanse : 4 inches. 



Description : " Allied to E. iva. Forewing \\'\i\). the oblique discal maculated band with 

 shorter lower portions, the penultimate spot quite oval, the last being short and conical ; the 

 two contiguous spots beneath are also smaller, and the two before the apex closer together. 

 Hindwing, the three subapical spots are contiguous, the two upper being large, quadrate, 

 and excavated externally." {Moore, 1. c.) 



This species also is unknown to me ; from the description alone it appears to be 

 sufficiently distinct. 



493. Euthalia nara, Moore. 



Adolias nara, Moore, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., new series, vol. v, p. yS, n. 35, pl. viii, fig- i. fonale (1859). 



Habitat : Sikkim, N. Khasi Hills. 



Expanse : 342 to 4'io inches. 



Description: "Female. Upperside dark glossy golden olive-green, with blackish 

 marginal and submarginal lines. Foravin^ with oblique transverse row of six white spots, from 

 middle of costal margin to near posterior angle, also two small subapic.1l white spots ; marks 

 within [and below] discoidal cell black. Hindwivg with two [or three] white spots on costal 

 margin near the angle. Underside glossy verdigris-green, apically olive-green. Foregoing 

 with markings as above, but more defined and whiter ; lower part of disc patched with 



* Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1882, p. 2^9. 



