NYMPHALID^. NYMPHALIN/E. EUTHALIA. 203 



E. franruB is not a common species ; it occurs from Nepal to Upper Assam, and was 

 taken by the Yunan Expedition in Upper Burma. 



Second section, Forewing more or less falcate, hindwing with outer margin evenly 

 rounded, outer margin broadly blue or grey on upperside ; body slender. 



In the next two species the sexes are nearly alike, the forewing is more falcate than in any 

 other species, except E. sairopaces, and the grey marginal band extends nearer to the apex 

 of the forewing than in any others. 



498. Euthalia lepidea, Butler. (Plate XIX, Fig. 78 ^), 



Adolias lej>uica, Butler, Ann. and Mag. of Nat. Hist., fourth series, vol. i, p. 71 Ci868> ; A. cocytus, 

 Moore {nee Fabricius), Trans. Ent. Soc. Lend., new series, vol. v, p. 76, n. 28 (1859) ; id., Prittwilz, 

 Stettin Ent. Zeit., 1867, p. 272. 



Habitat : Sikkim, Assam, Sylhet, Cachar, Chittagong, Upper Tenasserim, Orissa, 

 South India. 



Expanse : 2'S to 38 inches. 



Description : " Upperside of the male blackish-fuscous, of the female fuscous ; 

 with the middle disc a little paler, the external margin pale ashy-fuscous ; of the female 

 fuscescent, the discoidal marks black. Underside much paler, of the male chestnut-fuscous, 

 of the FEMALE ochraceous with the middle disc ochreous ; hindwing outwardly whitish ; 

 a submarginal macular streak, another beyond the middle angular lunate ; hindwing 

 ochraceous, the discoidal markings black ; forewing with the outer margin tinged with 

 violet." {Bntler, 1. c.) 



•' May at once be distinguished by the ashy marginal band widening from apex of the 

 forewing to abdominal margin" [of the hindwing]. QMoore, 1. c. ) 



£. lepidea is a very distinct and well-marked species, with the forewing very falcate ; its 

 pale grey margins on the upperside, narrow on the forewing, wide on the hindwing, distin- 

 guish it from any other butterfly except E. sairopaces. It occurs commonly in North-eastern 

 ludia and Burma, appearing again in Orissa and southwards to Travancore. Mr. Butler 

 gives the South Indian form as a variety, but it does not appear to differ from specimens 

 from North-eastern India. 



The figure shows both sides of a male specimen from Calicut in the Indian Museum 

 Calcutta. 



499. Euthalia andersonii, Moore. 



E. andersonii, Moore, Journ. A. S. B., vol. liii, pt. 2, p. 18 {x8S4). 



Habitat : Mergui, Tavoy. 



Expanse: $, 2*25 ; ?, 275 inches. 



Description : «' Male and female. Upperside dark umber-brown, palest in the 

 female ; l>ot/i luings with a marginal bluish-grey band, which extends very narrowly from 

 the apex of the forewing and widens across the hindiving to broadly above anal angle. 

 Within and beneath the cells the black streaks are most distinct in the female ; across the 

 discal area are two indistinct dusky sinuous fasciae widening from the costa of the /c^/rzcm^, 

 at which end the interspace is slightly paler in the male and distinctly paler in the female. 

 Cilia white. Underside ochreous-brown in the male and yellowish-ochreous in the female ; 

 the outer borders broadly suffused with purplish lilacine-white ; cell-marks distinct ; across 

 the disc of both zuings are two dusky lunular fascise with pale interspace, most distinct in 

 the female, the fascine being disposed across the middle of the disc." 



" Nearest allied to E. cocytus, Fabricius ; also to E. lepidea, Butler, and to E. macnairii, 

 Distant." (Moore, 1. c.) Dr. Anderson took several specimens of both sexes of this species 

 in the Mergui Archipelago during the cold weather. It differs from E, lepidea only in \\:x\uvg 

 the outer border blue not grey. . 



