202 NYMrilALlD/E. I^YMrHALIN/U. EUTHALIA. 



The second section is distinguished by the shape of the wings in the male, the fovewing 

 being more or less falcate, and the hindvving being evenly curved on the outer margin 

 and often somewhat elongate ; the colouration of the males is also peculiar, they have 

 no pale discal markings, the upperside is generally nearly uniform brown or blackish with 

 more or less obsolete dark lines, but the outer margin of the hindwing and sometimes 

 also of the forewing is broadly blue or grey, strongly contrasting with the brown ground-colour. 

 This blue outer border occurs in only one Indian species as yet described, E. phemius, 

 which does not belong to this section, and it may be distinguished not only by its outhne, 

 but by the blue patch being bounded outwardly by a pure white streak, and the extreme 

 margin bearing a black line. In this section the body is with one exception {E. telchinia) 

 remarkably slender, and the wings are comparatively weak. In this section too the differ- 

 entiation of the sexes commences, in the first two species the sexes are nearly alike, in the next 

 two the shape and style of markings are the same, but the grey or blue band has disappeared 

 in the female ; the ground-colour is uniform, but the position of the band is marked by a 

 dark transverse band along what would be its inner edge ; in the three remaining species 

 there is no trace even of the outline of the band in the female ; the ground-colour is uniform, 

 but the dark lines follow the same pattern as in the male and are more prominent ; the 

 colouration of the underside also differs conspicuously. In this section again the third subcostal 

 nervule of the forewing arises at a greater distance from the cell than in the third section, 

 but the character is variable, being most pronounced in E. lepidea. 



The third section is distinguished by the shape of the wings in the male, the forewing 

 having the apex acutely pointed, and the hindwing having the anal angle acutely pointed also 

 and slightly produced ; the body is very robust, and the wings powerful though small ; the 

 antennae are longer than in the other sections, being often considerably more than half the length 

 of the forewing, and the third subcostal nervule of that wing arises close to the cell. The 

 sexes are differentiated in all the species, the females having larger wings, the forewing 

 with the apex more rounded, and the hindwing broader and more evenly rounded. In many 

 cases the females have prominent white discal bands. 



First section. With a well-defined pale yellow discal band across both wings ; sexes 

 alike. 



497- Euthalia francis, Gray. 



Adolias franclee. Gray, Lep. Ins. Nepal, p. 12, pi. xiv (1846); id., Moore, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 

 new series, vol. v, p. 81, n. 43(1859); A. franca, Moore, Anderson's Researches, p. 924 (1878); A, raja, 

 Felder, Wien. Ent. Monatsch., vol- iii, p. 397, n. 40, pi. ix, fig. 2,/eiitale (1859). 



Habitat : Nepal, Sikkim, Assam, Sylhet, Upper Burma. 



Expanse : 2*9 to 4 'o inches. 



Description : " Wings olive-green, with a spotted [pale yellow] band across the 

 middle of both wings somewhat in the form of a V, also two white [pale yellow] spots 

 near the apex of the foreiving, and a series of white [pale yellow] lines along the margin 

 of both wings, and a series of black lines interiorly. Underside marked like the upper- 

 side, but of a cinereous colour, with a spot of black at the posterior angle of the y^/'ftc////^." 

 (^Gray, 1 c.) Sexes alike. 



This also is a very beautiful species. It may be known from E dmga on the upperside 

 by the ground-colour being a paler green, the discal white (or pale yellow) band much 

 narrower, especially on the forewing, and inwardly deflexed above the third median 

 nervule, this band not defined outwardly with a black line and then a broad blue fascia 

 as in E. durga ; a submarginal series of diffused whitish spots. Underside quite different 

 in colour, being of a most beautiful glossy greenish silvery, the discal white band as above 

 but wider on the hindwing, the additional wider portion being pale purplish, a narrow white 

 band across both wings in continuation of the two subapical white spots above, and a wider 

 submarginal band, with a black diffuicd spot within it at the anal angle of the forewing. 



